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ILO COOP participates in two sessions during a labour week organized by OSF for staff and a group of philanthropic donors

The two sessions during the labour week at OSF focused on organizing essential workers during COVID-19 pandemic and how worker ownership is tackling inequality.

ILO participates in a webinar on the Social economy and migrant entrepreneurship

At the webinar organized by 3 EU-funded projects, the Director of the ILO’s Enterprises Department talked about the ILO approach and initiatives related to labour migration and refugee situations including responses through SSE institutions

The UN Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy has a new website

The new UN Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) was designed to be an accessible, interactive, and multilingual space that gives visibility to all initiatives carried out by the Task Force, its members and observers.

ILO/KoSEA/SNU joint conference held in Seoul to share the findings of ILO project on strengthening SSE policy in Asia

The international research conference on strengthening SSE policy in Asia attracted more than 400 participants and 1,400 viewers online from Asia and beyond.

ILO COOP 100 Interview

ILO COOP 100 Interview with Jean-Louis Bancel, President of Coop France and Cooperatives Europe, and Vice President for Europe for the...

Established in March 1920, the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit marks its Centenary in 2020. On this occasion, the ILO COOP 100 Interview series features past and present ILO colleagues and key partners who were closely engaged in the ILO's work on...

ILO Provides Support to Cooperatives

The ILO Office for Turkey supports cooperatives and launches a series of webinars to cast light on their problems.

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Collective construction, the best strategy of the Argentine Federation of Technology, Innovation and Knowledge Worker Cooperatives...

“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)....

Italy-ILO cooperation to support Palestinian cooperatives

The ILO’s Cooperative Support Programme is launched in the Occupied Palestinian Territory with support from the Italian Government.

ILO COOP 100 Interview

Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Kamdem, Secretary General of the Pan African Institute for Development (PAID), former official of the International...

Established in March 1920, the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit marks its Centenary in 2020. On this occasion, the ILO COOP 100 Interview series features past and present ILO colleagues and key partners who were closely engaged in the ILO's work on...

Cooperatives in Focus: Select Articles on Cooperatives from the International Labour Review

The story of a friendship: Juan Somavia and Ivano Barberini

What is in a name? Changes to the Designation of COOP Unit at the ILO across the century

Cooperatives & the ILO over 100 Years: A selection of 12 Articles: A Special Virtual Retrospective Issue of the Annals of Public and...

ILO COOP 100 Special Interview Series “Cultivate the COOPs” - Vol.3 Mr. Akihiro Takatsuka (Central Union of Agricultural Co-operatives – JA...

KoSEA and ILO convene a second virtual interim research workshop with country researchers for the ILO project on strengthening SSE policy...

Officials of the Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency (KoSEA), and ILO staff members met online with country researchers for the project to discuss the feedback from the second drafts of the case studies to prepare for presentation in a research...

An Update on ILO COOP 100 Interview Series

An Update on the ILO COOP 100 Photo Exhibit Submissions

An Update on ILO COOP 100 Symposium Paper Submissions

Remembering Sam Mshiu

ILO COOP 100 Interview

Ramin Behzad, Labour Statistician and former Labour Counselor of Iran at the ILO

Established in March 1920, the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit marks its Centenary in 2020. On this occasion, the ILO COOP 100 Interview series features past and present ILO colleagues and key partners who were closely engaged in the ILO's work on...