Cooperatives (EMP/COOP): Start-up and growth programmes that contribute to job creation

October 2009 

• Organizing Promotional Events For Women Entrepreneurs: A Guide “Month of the Women Entrepreneur” (MOWE) - [pdf 28078 KB]
  23 October 2009 - The purpose of this guide is to provide organizations with a methodology on how to organize WED celebrations, in particular, MOWE celebrations. (Book)
• GET Ahead for Women in Enterprise Training Package and Resource Kit - [pdf 3485 KB]
  23 October 2009 - The training package Gender and Entrepreneurship Together – GET Ahead for Women in Enterprise – aims to assist ILO partner organizations in promoting enterprise development among women in poverty who want to start or are already engaged in small-scale business. (Book)

December 2008 

• Global 300 an ICA initiative
  30 December 2008 - (Web page)
• International Cooperative Alliance (ICA)
  30 December 2008 - (Web page)
• LEGACOOP (Lega Nazionale delle Cooperative e Mutue)
  30 December 2008 - (Web page)
• NATLEX, the database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation
  30 December 2008 - (Web page)
• Norwegian Consumer Cooperative Association
  30 December 2008 - (Web page)
• 5 July 2008, Geneva, Switzerland
  14th UN International Day of Cooperatives: “Confronting climate change through Cooperative Enterprises” (Conference)

July 2008 

• Cooperative Facility for Africa - CoopAfrica
  February 2008 - January 2010 The Cooperative Facility for Africa - CoopAfrica is a technical cooperation programme of the ILO, under DFID funding. From its office in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania), CoopAfrica covers 9 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa. ... (Project)

January 2008 

• 100 million jobs, The contribution of cooperatives to employment creation - [pdf 525 KB]
  01 January 2008 - (Publication)
• Cooperating Out of Poverty, The renaissance of the African cooperative movement
  01 January 2008 - (Book)