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Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Cooperative of Associated Work Planeta Verde: Improving living conditions of waste pickers in Colombia

"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 with cooperatives. On this occasion, ILO interviewed Martha Elena...

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Lanka’s first unanimous cooperative policy ready after a decade’s work

AAfter a decade of country-wide efforts involving eight million members, the first ever national policy for Sri Lanka’s historic cooperative sector has finally been tabled at Cabinet for finalisation before approval.

ILO provides technical support to Equatorial Guinea on cooperative development

In the framework of the negotiations of the Decent Work Country Program for Equatorial Guinea (2019-2022) held in Malabo from 9 to 13 July 2018, the General Directorate of Cooperatives of the Ministry of Labour, Employment Promotion and Social...

Cooperatives can play key role in future of work

The potential of cooperatives to play a positive role in shaping the future of work was discussed at a national conference in the Republic of Korea.

ILO participates in a research conference to exchange on the role of cooperatives in a changing world of work

ILO officials participated in the 2018 ICA European Research Conference in Wageningen, the Netherlands, to exchange on the role of cooperatives in a changing world of work.

Cooperatives contribute to sustainable production and employment in Sri Lanka

The International Day of Cooperatives is celebrated on the first Saturday of July each year. This year’s theme, Sustainable consumption and production of goods and services is timely, as the International Labour Organization (ILO) works towards a...

ILO participates in an observance of the International Day of Cooperatives at the United Nations, New York

The Director ILO Office for the UN Director presented the relevance of cooperatives in promoting decent work and sustainable development at an observance of the 2018 International Day of Cooperatives held at UN Headquarters in New York.

ILO participates in an international forum on cooperative development in the Pacific Islands

The Director of the ILO Office for Pacific Islands presented the work of the ILO on cooperatives to promote decent work at an international forum on cooperative development in the Pacific region.

Speech

Sustainable development is not a choice, but the only way

ILO Viet Nam Director, Chang-Hee Lee, made the speech at the celebration of the International Day of Cooperatives in Hanoi on 7 July 2018.

ILO to hold Technical Training Workshop on Cooperatives in Guyana

Workshop to be opened by the Minister with responsibility for Labour within the Ministry of Social Protection, the Honourable Keith Scott.

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Interview with Rudi Dalvai, President, World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO)

"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 with cooperatives. For this issue, ILO interviewed Rudi Dalvai,...

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Redesol - Building sustainable and solidary links among waste pickers in the informal economy in Brazil

"Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators" is a series of interviews with cooperative leaders from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work with cooperatives. For this issue ILO interviewed Ms Sonia...

ILO organizes a meeting on cooperative to cooperative trade and decent work

ILO brings together the cooperative movement and fairer and ethical trade initiatives to promote responsible production and consumption though cooperative to cooperative trade.

Advancing decent work in the rural economy through cooperatives in post-conflict Northern Province in Sri Lanka

ILO participates in the African cooperative development conference

ILO participated in a conference on advancing African cooperatives’ contributions to the 2030 Agenda with a focus on achieving SDG2.

ILO facilitates a visit by Japanese Consumers’ Cooperative Union (JCCU) to an Italian social cooperative

The visit by JCCU to Cadore Social Cooperative Society in Pieve di Cadore, Italy aimed to draw on its experience in local community development.

Exchange of knowledge and experience on SSE public policies for local economic development in Spain

Cooperatives in the Republic of Korea: 3rd survey highlights cooperatives’ growing contribution to social and economic realms

Earlier this year, the Ministry of Strategy and Finance of the Republic of Korea (MOSF) announced the results of its third cooperatives survey. Conducted biennially since 2013, the latest edition of the survey points out the growing contributions of...

My.Coop training organized for skills development of vulnerable youth in Haiti

My.Coop – Training on agricultural cooperative management was organized in Haiti within the framework of a Norwegian-funded ILO project on addressing education and skills gaps for vulnerable youth.

ILO hosts partners meeting on cooperative responses to advancing public health

ILO hosts partners meeting to discuss the next steps on research exploring the potential of cooperatives to advance public health in Cameroon and Kenya.