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Cooperatives

ILO workshop highlights importance of cooperatives in creation of decent jobs for waste pickers

A study in Mozambique reflects the key role of cooperatives in achieving SDGs by 2030

ILO Director General’s message on the key role of cooperatives to achieve SDGs by 2030, confirms a similar projection made by a study on the cooperatives movement in Mozambique.

International Day of Cooperatives

Cooperatives: An old idea, but more relevant than ever in today’s world

Cooperatives are key to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder on the occasion of International Day of Cooperatives.

Our impact, their voices

Helping Syrian refugees formalize their work status through cooperatives

The ILO is working with agricultural cooperatives to help Syrian refugees obtain work permits during a three-month grace period announced by the government of Jordan, in a further step to improve access of Syrian refugees to the formal labour market.

Regional meeting on cooperative statistics in Lesotho

COPAC Coordinator visits ILO COOP

My.Coop training package rolled out in Mongolia

A First Step Toward Strengthening Domestic Workers’ Cooperatives in Trinidad and Tobago

National voices from the cooperative movement at the International Labour Conference 2016

My.Financial.Coop: Training programme for apex organizations of financial cooperatives

Global voices from the cooperative movement at the International Labour Conference 2016

Cooperative Cera Group visits ILO COOP

ILO Coop hosts Belgian cooperative movement representatives to explore areas for collaboration

Our impact, their stories

Diversity brings prosperity in Northern Sri Lanka

The ILO and Australian government are working to reduce vulnerability and strengthen market networks for Sri Lankan smallholders.

COOP Champions

Emanuela Pozzan, ILO Regional Office for Arab States

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...

Partnerships

ILO and IFRC to promote decent work opportunities in fragile and post-disaster settings

Agreement covers cooperation on livelihoods, procurement, SMEs, and cooperatives.

Press Release

ILO Conference highlights cooperatives’ crucial role for fairer world of work

The International Cooperatives Research Conference brought together researchers on cooperatives and labour issues from around the world in Antalya, Turkey on 10-11 November 2015.

Cooperatives and refugees

How workers' cooperatives can help tackle the refugee crisis

On 8-10 November, an international conference in Turkey discussed, among other issues, ways in which cooperatives can help the growing number of refugees and migrants in today’s world. ILO News spoke with Simel Esim, head of the ILO’s Cooperatives...

ILO Media Advisory: Final ILO-MLSS Validation and Dissemination Workshop on the Formalization of the Informal Economy Project in Jamaica

Participants to discuss options to expand project to other communities in Jamaica.

Cooperatives

Cooperatives moving into the care economy

An interview with Lenore Matthew from the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit (COOP) and the Gender, Equality and Diversity Branch (GED), who presented new research showing how cooperatives are increasingly providing care for the elderly, people with...

COOP Champions

Edmund Moshy

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...