News, stories and statements on cooperatives

  1. News

    ILO COOP meets with the African Union delegation to discuss collaboration on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy

    21 March 2023

    The meeting took place on March 15, 2023 at the ILO Headquarters in Geneva with the participation of ILO Cooperatives Unit and African Union Commission representatives from the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment Department and Labour Employment and Migration Division.

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    42nd Regular Meeting of The UN Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE)

    21 March 2023

    The 42nd UNTFSSE meeting was held virtually on 7 March 2023. It brought together around 30 participants from seven member (ILO, UNRISD, ECLAC, UNDP, UNDESA, UNCTAD and OECD) and eleven observer organizations (Catalyst2030, CIRIEC, CSEND, EMES, EURICSE, DIESIS, GSEF, Euclid Network, ICA, SSE International Forum, RIPESS).

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    ILO DG Houngbo provides a video message for the opening session of the OECD conference on the Social and Solidarity Economy

    20 March 2023

    The OECD event on “Inclusion, innovation and inspiration: Shaping our future with the social and solidarity economy” took place on March 20-21, in person in Paris and online.

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    ILO organizes orientation session to strengthen the understanding around the social and solidarity economy in Thailand and Vietnam

    17 March 2023

    The ILO organized an orientation session to guide the national researchers in Thailand and Vietnam in undertaking mapping studies for the social and solidarity economy (SSE) in Asia project.

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    ILO sends a video message to parallel event at UNCSW67 on women’s leadership in cooperatives

    16 March 2023

    Organized by the Working Women’s Forum - Indian Cooperative Network for Women (WWF-ICNW), the event on “Innovating Networks for Women’s Cooperative Leadership through Capacity Building” took place on 14th March 2023 during the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women

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    My.COOP - Managing your agricultural cooperative: Training of Trainers, 9 October - 31 December 2023

    14 March 2023

    My.COOP is a training package and programme on the management of agricultural cooperatives.

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    ToR for Midterm Internal Project Evaluation of “Cooperative Support Programme for Palestine" (CSP-OPT)

    13 March 2023

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    Technical Officer on Cooperatives and SSE Development

    13 March 2023

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    Call for expression of interest - The provision of Childcare Services through Cooperatives to Support Economic Opportunities for Women

    13 March 2023

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    ILO organizes Our.COOP orientation to support cooperatives development among coffee farmers in Laos

    02 March 2023

    The ILO held an orientation session on the Our.COOP training programme for coffee farmers’ representatives in Champasak, Laos, to encourage the advancement of cooperatives in Laos’ coffee growing regions.