All news: cooperatives

International Day of Cooperatives

Message by ILO Director-General Guy Ryder: “Choose cooperatives, choose equality"

Cooperatives

When work is more than “just a job”

As the world celebrates the International Day of Cooperatives, ILO News looks at how one cooperative in Brooklyn, New York, is offering migrants a dignified and sustainable way to make a decent living.

Partnerships

ILO, ICA step up collaboration to promote cooperatives and decent work

Agreement will strengthen the contribution of the two organizations to sustainable development by leveraging the comparative advantage of cooperative enterprises.

Intervention by Bruno Roelants in the name of the International Cooperative Alliance at the Committee on the Transition from the Informal...

Cooperatives

Global survey shows rising women’s participation in cooperatives

An ILO-ICA joint survey reflects gains for women in cooperatives while pointing to the need for better recognition by governments

Cooperative development initiative on "Socio-economic justice for Bedouin women" in Egypt

COOP Champions

Grania Mackie, ILO Pretoria

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...

Decent Work for Domestic Workers

ILO gathers regional and international stakeholders to explore establishing migrant domestic worker cooperatives in the Middle East

Domestic worker cooperatives have been set up in many places around the world, but they do not exist in any of the Arab States. A recent study launched by the ILO looks into the cases of Lebanon, Jordan and Kuwait, to see if the region is ready for...

Youth Cooperatives Development: A Sustainable Way to Create Employment for Youth

Capacity building of key national institutions, youth organizations & youth cooperative enterprises on promotion of cooperatives development

Cooperatives and Trade Unions

Job preservation through the creation of worker cooperatives: Lessons for trade unions

A new ILO publication presents a series of lessons learned by trade unions and cooperatives in their efforts to prevent the closing of enterprises through buyouts. It provides examples of success stories and documents the enabling conditions that...

International Summit of Cooperatives, Quebec City

ILO: "Cooperatives can and must play a significant role as value driven enterprises expanding into new and innovative areas"

Keynote address by Sandra Polaski, ILO Deputy Director General for Policy, at the International Summit of Cooperatives Session on Cooperatives and Employment.

Cooperatives and post-2015 conference in Brussels

"Cooperatives are major job creators”

Simel Esim, Head of the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit, underlined the key role cooperatives could play in the post-2015 development agenda.

Coops as employers

Cooperatives get down to business

From grain handlers to credit unions, cooperative enterprises as employers are assuming a leading role among social partnerships.

COOP Champions

Kelvin Sergeant, ILO office for the Caribbean

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...

Cooperatives

The cooperative key to sustainable development

On the occasion of the International Symposium “Cooperatives and the Sustainable Development Goals: Focus on Africa” in Berlin, ILO Cooperative Unit (COOP) Chief Simel Esim explains why cooperatives are vital to reaching the goals of the United...

Fair economy

Cooperatives’ considerable clout in the fight against child labour

The coop economy, worth around US$2.5 trillion, plays its part in helping to eliminate child labour – a problem that, although in decline, still affects 168 million children worldwide.

International Day of Cooperatives

Cooperatives' people-first approach proves effective for social and economic development

From agriculture to finance, cooperatives deliver a wide range of goods and services to members around the world. How can cooperatives best help realize the sustainable development goals being hammered out by the UN?

Interview with Suman More, Solid Waste Collection and Handling (SWaCH)

Interview with Arbind Singh of the National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI)

Street vendors were among the groups of workers in the informal economy who were well represented in the ILC. ILO COOP talked to Mr. Arbind Singh, the National Coordinator of The National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI).

Cooperatives

Rebuilding links: Trade unions and cooperatives get together again

All over the world, trade unions and cooperatives are rediscovering each other and joining forces to save companies and jobs.