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ILO COOP/SSE eNewsUpdate Issue No 3, March 2019

29 March 2019

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Strengthening cooperatives in Jordan to improve livelihoods and advance decent work for Jordanian workers and Syrian refugees

28 March 2019

Drawing on the earlier work and pilot interventions, the ILO will further strengthen cooperatives in Jordan within the framework of a new Dutch-funded project on advancing decent work for Jordanian workers and Syrian refugees in the agriculture sector.

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

GSEF: Promoting the social and solidarity economy for human-centred development

28 March 2019

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE). On this occasion, ILO interviewed Ms Laurence Kwark, Secretary General of the Global Social Economy Forum (GSEF), an international association of local governments and civil society networks engaged in the promotion of the SSE as a means of achieving inclusive and sustainable local development. GSEF is also one of the observers of the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on SSE (UNTFSSE) that is currently chaired by the ILO.

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Towards building a coherent strategy of cooperative development in the Andean Region

27 March 2019

The ILO has been engaging with cooperatives and rural producers’ organizations in the Andean Region with a view to developing a coherent strategy on cooperative development for decent work in selected countries.

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ILO shares its message for a parallel event at the 63rd CSW on empowering women in waste management

19 March 2019

ILO has sent a video message for a parallel event to the 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on cooperative ways to empower informal women workers in waste management chains.

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ILO’s participation in the International Conference on Localizing the SDGs and Co-Constructing the Means of Implementation

15 March 2019

The ILO, as a chair of the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), participated in an international conference on the role of SSE in implementing and localizing the SDGs which took place in the Republic of Korea.

Call for expressions of interest

A global mapping of responses by cooperatives and social and solidarity economy organizations to forced displacement

14 March 2019

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is launching a call for expressions of interest for “A global mapping of responses by cooperatives and social and solidarity economy organizations to forced displacement”. For details please see the document below.

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ILO COOP/SSE eNewsUpdate Issue No 2, February 2019

28 February 2019

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A key step taken towards developing a social economy policy in South Africa

28 February 2019

A draft Green Paper on a social economy policy in South Africa presented at a national consultation conference in Sandton. In a speech to the conference, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder reflected on the relevance of social and solidarity economy organizations and their value-driven, human-centred approaches in addressing the challenges in the changing world of work.

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Sri Lanka’s first ever ‘eco-recommended’ fisheries

27 February 2019

With the support of the ILO Local Empowerment through Economic Development (LEED) project funded by the Australian government, two blue swimming crab fisheries in Sri Lanka become the country’s first ever ‘eco-recommended’ fisheries. The five-year collaborative efforts involved the local seafood industry, government agencies and fishery cooperatives.