All news: cooperatives

Beneficiaries of SADA Women Centre At Gaziantep Book Days

The beneficiaries of SADA Women Development and Solidarity Centre under the Project “Strengthening the Resilience of Syrian Women and Girls” being implemented UN Women with ILO and ASAM as implementing partners participated in Gaziantep Book Days

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Centre for Co-operative Studies: Building a solid knowledge base on the cooperative business model

“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)....

Strengthening institutional capacities on social and solidarity economy development in the Occupied Palestinian Territory

The ILO initiative aims to improve economic and social rights and conditions for the Palestinian population through cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE).

Logo For SADA Women’s Cooperative Selected By Vote

A logo was selected for SADA Women’s Cooperative which recently completed its founding under the Project “Strengthening the Resilience of Syrian Women and Girls” being implemented in Gaziantep in leadership of The United Nations Entity for Gender...

ILO’s presentation at the 2nd ICA-AP Cooperative Registrars’ Forum

The Director of the ILO Country Office for Viet Nam participated in the 2nd International Co-operative Alliance – Asia and Pacific (ICA-AP) Cooperative Registrars’ Forum held in Ho Chi Minh city, Viet Nam to present ILO’s work on statistics of...

COOP Champions

John Bliek, Enterprises Specialist at ILO Office for the Andean Countries

COOP Champions features ILO colleagues from around the world working on cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy enterprises. It highlights their contributions, and shares highlights of their experiences, current work, and future...

SADA Women’s Cooperative Welcomes the Social Cooperative Training and Publicity Train at Gare De Gaziantep

The Social Cooperative Training and Publicity Train that departed on 5 April 2019 from Gare de Sirkeci, Istanbul arrived on 15 April in Gaziantep as its sixth stop.

Delegation of Canadian Embassy Visits SADA Women Centre

The untapped potential of health cooperatives

The role of the cooperative movement in general and health co-operatives in particular, both in tackling the challenge of decent employment worldwide and in providing health services for the underprivileged in one of the key topics discussed in this...

ILO’s message to a conference on Italian cooperative responses toward advancing gender equality at work

ILO has sent a video message for a conference on women in the workplace and cooperative responses to advance gender equality in Italy.

ILO’s participation in a public seminar on economic democracy and worker cooperatives in Ireland

ILO participates in a dialogue with trade unions, cooperatives and academics in Ireland and the UK on the potential of worker cooperatives in advancing economic democracy and decent work in the context of the future of work.

News

Founding of SADA Women’s Cooperative Joyfully Celebrated

The founding of SADA Women’s Cooperative under the project “Strengthening the Resilience of Syrian Women and Girls” being implemented in Gaziantep jointly by UN Women, ILO and ASAM was celebrated with seminars and meetings with the participation of...

Significant steps taken in the establishment of a Women’s Cooperative in Gaziantep

Capacity building training was delivered in the context of establishing a Women’s Cooperative aimed under the project “Strengthening the Resilience of Syrian Women and Girls” being implemented in Gaziantep jointly by UN Women, ILO and ASAM.

A survey on the needs for a global knowledge platform on cooperatives and mutual societies in the health sector

Procedures Initiated to Establish SADA Women’s Cooperative

The work was taken to a higher stage to establish a cooperative planned under the project “Strengthening the Resilience of Syrian Women and Girls” being implemented in Gaziantep jointly by UN Women, ILO and ASAM. The application to establish the...

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

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

“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)....

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

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...

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

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.

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

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.

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

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...