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A cooperative 2030 series

Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 - Cooperative contributions to SDG 1

31 January 2018

This brief is part of the Transforming our world: A cooperative 2030 series produced by the Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC). Through a series of 17 briefs, one for each Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), COPAC hopes to raise awareness about the significant contributions of cooperative enterprises towards achieving the 2030 Agenda in a sustainable, inclusive and responsible way, and encourage continued support for their efforts. This brief in the series focuses on the first SDG on ending poverty in all its forms everywhere.

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SFN meeting: Mobile money and digital payments

30 January 2018

News

COPAC shares with UN ambassadors how cooperatives can contribute to the eradication of poverty

30 January 2018

Publication

Guidelines for use and adaptation of the ILO’s training tool Think.COOP

26 January 2018

Adding to the body of existing tools and training material on cooperative development, ILO now launches Think.Coop, a new training tool for those interested in cooperation and its benefits for improving businesses of potential members.

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Think.Coop - a new orientation tool on cooperatives launched

26 January 2018

Adding to the body of existing tools and training material on cooperative development, ILO now launches Think.Coop, a new training tool for those interested in cooperation and its benefits for improving businesses of potential members.

Countries in Focus on Statistics of Cooperatives

Statistics on Cooperatives Country in Focus: Republic of Korea

25 January 2018

Countries in Focus on Statistics of Cooperatives is a series produced by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC) as part of a larger initiative to increase understanding of the ways in which countries around the world are producing and using statistics on cooperatives. Currently reliable and comparable statistics on cooperatives are missing in most countries of the world. These statistics are essential to measure the impact of cooperatives on their members and the economy as a whole.

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Promoting rural women economic empowerment through cooperatives in Upper Egypt

25 January 2018

Press release

The ILO Constituents in Ghana Call for Mainstreaming of the principle of “a Just Transition towards Environmental Sustainability…” into schools’ curriculum

24 January 2018

The effects of climate change call for implementation of measures that would mitigate its impact on societies. In an effort to achieve the “Just Transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and societies for all”, the ILO Country office Abuja gave technical and financial support to the government of Ghana to organize a National Dialogue in Accra.