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Costa Rica and Dominican Republic advance institutionalization of ILO cooperative training tools
Twenty-eight trainers from national institutions in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic have received ILO certification, strengthening national capacity to progressively integrate ILO cooperative training tools and methodologies into existing...
Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic strengthen their capacity to promote new cooperative enterprises
A total of 28 trainers from the INA and INFOCOOP in Costa Rica, and INFOTEP and CODOPESCA in the Dominican Republic, received ILO certification to deliver the Think.COOP and Start.COOP methodologies in both countries.
Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators
Measuring the social and solidarity economy: Insights from Costa Rica’s experience
Mario Durán Fernández, National Director of Social and Solidarity Economy at the Ministry of Labour and Social Security, shares insights on challenges and key aspects in advancing reliable and comparable statistics on the social and solidarity...
ILO constituents and partners strengthen knowledge on the social and solidarity economy to advance social justice
The ILO convened a technical knowledge-sharing event in Turin, bringing together constituents and partners from countries where it has been actively supporting the promotion of the social and solidarity economy (SSE) for social justice. Participants...
Institutional change
ILO strengthens Caribbean presence: Haiti joins the ILO Caribbean Office
Effective 1 January 2026, responsibility for Haiti will shift from the ILO Central America office in San Jose to the ILO Office for the Caribbean in Port of Spain as part of strategic realignment to enhance support for Haiti.
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20th ILO American Regional Meeting concludes with adoption of the Punta Cana Declaration
Tripartite declaration sets out shared priorities to promote social justice, decent work, and inclusive and sustainable development across the Americas.
RBCLAC Project
Costa Rica’s pineapple sector takes a key step toward sustainability and human rights
With support from the ILO, the National Chamber of Pineapple Producers and Exporters of Costa Rica and its affiliates completed the first stage of a capacity-building program on corporate due diligence in human rights and environmental matters.
Press release
ILO unveils key data on web-based platform work in Latin America and the Caribbean
New ILO report provides unprecedented data on workers in web-based digital platforms in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Statistics advance cooperative innovation and impact
The session on the role of statistics in measuring and creating impact through cooperative innovation was held under the "Shaping a Cooperative Future" pillar at the Global Cooperative Conference in New Delhi.
Eliel Hasson Nisis takes over as new ILO Director for Central America, Haiti, Panama and the Dominican Republic
Eliel Hasson Nisis, a Chilean lawyer with extensive experience in labor issues and international relations, has taken over as Director of the ILO Office for Central America, Haiti, Panama and the Dominican Republic. His management will focus on...
Unions Express a Common Perspective for Latin America and the Caribbean Towards a New Social Contract
Union representatives from Latin America and the Caribbean meet in Costa Rica to create a platform for regional dialogue, allowing them to define and articulate their perspectives and proposals towards a new social contract in their countries and...
HLPF side event on "Leveraging Social Innovation to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals" co-hosted by the ILO, Canada, Costa Rica,...
The side event took place on July 18, 2023 at the UN Headquarters in New York, bringing together countries and stakeholders with shared and diverse views to discuss how social innovation can be leveraged to advance the SDGs.
ILO visited iCOOP’s Natural Dream Park in Korea
Following the International Conference on Statistics of Cooperatives, held on 30 June in Busan, participants were invited to a study trip at iCOOP’s Natural Dream Park in Goesan, Korea between 1-2 July 2023.
Improved statistics will strengthen global cooperative movement
An international conference has explored ways that more robust and consistent statistical measures can shape better policies and interventions for cooperatives and help their contribution to sustainable development be properly recognized.
The global advisory committee of the ILO initiative on cooperative statistics holds its 5th meeting
Findings from case studies of Italy, Türkiye, Costa Rica, Tanzania and Korea on statistics concerning cooperatives were presented. This led to discussions around recommendations to the ILO guidelines concerning statistics of cooperatives and the...
The global advisory committee of the ILO initiative on cooperative statistics holds its 4th meeting
National researchers from Italy, Türkiye, Costa Rica and Tanzania presented their analyses on the available and potential sources of data on cooperatives in their countries. They also provided comparisons and recommendations on the international...
Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators
Interview with Carlos Gonzalez Blanco, Research Officer (Cooperatives of the Americas)
“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with cooperators 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)....
The global advisory committee of the ILO initiative on cooperative statistics holds its 3rd meeting
National researchers from Italy, Türkiye, Korea, Costa Rica and Tanzania have presented an analysis of the statistics in their countries on cooperatives. They also provided comparisons to the international guidelines concerning statistics of...
The global advisory committee of the ILO’s initiative on statistics of cooperatives holds its 2nd meeting
Five national researchers made presentations comparing their national contexts with the ILO’s guidelines concerning statistics of cooperatives at the 2nd meeting of the global advisory committee (GAC) of the ILO initiative on implementing the...
The global advisory committee of the ILO’s initiative on statistics of cooperatives holds its kick-off meeting
The global advisory committee of the ILO initiative on implementing the Guidelines concerning statistics of cooperatives held its kick-off meeting.