News

Launch of SSE Awareness Raising Package by ILO, ITCILO and UNTFSSE

24 July 2023

News

In Lebanon ILO PROSPECTS organizes a business plan competition to select social and solidarity economy entities that will benefit from technical and financial assistance

26 June 2023

The business plan competition took place on 19-21 June 2023 with the participation of 37 SSE projects that aim to create decent jobs for vulnerable host communities and Syrian refugees to bring about changes in their communities.

Our impact, their voices

Shadia and Sahar: How decent work has changed their lives in Jordan

01 May 2023

An almost three-year ILO intervention across six cooperatives in Jordan has brought about tangible changes to the lives of thousands Jordanian and Syrian refugee agricultural workers in Jordan. Listen to the words of Shadia and Sahar on the matter.

Project

Cooperative Support Programme for Palestine (CSP-OPT)

06 March 2023

The project aims to enhance employment and livelihood opportunities for Palestinian women and men by activating a supportive institutional, regulatory and promotional environment for autonomous and economically self-reliant cooperatives.

News

ILO DG speaks at a session on the social and solidarity economy at the World Government Summit 2023 session

15 February 2023

The session on “How the Social Economy Shapes a Better Future for Humanity” took place on February 12, 2023 at the World Government Summit in Dubai.

COOP Champions

Younis Sbeih, National Project Officer on Cooperatives for the Cooperative Support Programme (CSP), ILO Ramallah

01 February 2023

COOP Champions features ILO colleagues from around the world working on cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy enterprises. It highlights their contributions, and shares highlights of their experiences, current work, and future aspirations.

Press release

ILO, JCC and partners discuss amendments to cooperative legislation in the country

27 January 2023

The proposed modifications to the country’s cooperative law are meant to eventually lead to revised legislation, paving the way for an autonomous, inclusive and self-reliant cooperative movement in Jordan.

News

ILO PROSPECTS undertakes training workshop for agricultural cooperatives in Lebanon

20 December 2022

Under PROSPECTS Lebanon, the ILO organized a 4-day training in Beirut, Lebanon on 5-8 December 2022. The aim of the training was to support selected agricultural cooperatives in Beqaa, Akkar and North-Lebanon, and help them overcome challenges imposed by Lebanon’s on-going financial and economic crises.

News

Twenty-one trainers complete My. Coop training of trainer’s programme on managing Palestinian agricultural cooperatives

25 November 2022

In the framework of the project on “Cooperative Support Programme CSP-OPT” the ILO organized a Training of Trainers on the My.Coop training package on management of agricultural cooperatives.

News

ILO conducts TOT on child labour with agricultural cooperatives in Jordan

16 November 2022

The Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop, conducted on 19-22 October, aimed to build capacities of field trainers, so they can raise awareness on elimination of child labour among agricultural cooperatives.