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Rural development

"Money finds us!" - Enriching the vegetable harvest in Timor-Leste

How an ILO supported project helped a local community to improve their farming practices, develop their market access, create jobs and support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises.

International Day of Cooperatives

Resilience and social inclusion through cooperatives

On 8 July, experts gathered for a panel discussion at the UN in New York to examine ways in which cooperatives could serve as engines of economic recovery and growth while providing greater opportunities for social inclusion.

Cooperative: strong in times of crisis

Message from Guy Ryder, ILO Director-General, on International Cooperative Day 2013

COOP Champions

Cebisile Nyambe

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...

COOP Champions

Rawand Al-Madmouj

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...

COOP Champions

Mohamed Farzan, training facilitator LED tools and trainer, My.COOP

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...

COOP Champions

Rodrigo Mogrovejo, senior specialist at the 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...

Workers' cooperatives

Cooperatives today: Challenges and opportunities

A recent seminar organized by the ILO’s Bureau for Workers’ Activities and the ILO’s Cooperative Branch brought together researchers and practitioners from around the world to talk about some of the issues and experiences that cooperatives are...

Banking crisis

Financial cooperatives: A safe bet in a crisis

A new ILO book says that financial cooperatives fared better than the big investor-owned banks during the economic crisis.

Cooperatives

Egypt’s farmers: Sowing the seeds of an agricultural revolution

Agriculture will be critical to future economic growth in Egypt, says the ILO – but only if the laws on farmers’ co-ops are reformed.

Safety at work

Turning computer junk into jobs

Vast amounts of electrical and electronic waste end up in developing countries where the recycling methods are often hazardous. Integrating informal e-waste operations into the formal sector can help make the process safer, according to an ILO study...

International Year of Cooperatives

Healing pharmacies

As the International Year of Cooperatives draws to an end, ILO News looks at how cooperatives in Turkey offer customers easier and safer access to medicines.

Banking co-ops

What financial cooperatives can teach the big banks

The success of financial cooperatives during the global financial crisis shows there is a credible alternative to the investment-owned banking system.

Microinsurance

The win-win potential of microinsurance for migrants

International migrants send home over US$ 400 billion a year, yet they and their families often lack basic social protection. That is where microinsurance can step in.

World Food Day

ILO says cooperatives key to boosting food production

Agricultural cooperatives – the theme of the 2012 World Food Day – are a vehicle for decent lives and decent work, according to ILO Director-General Guy Ryder.

Special message at the International conference on "Forging greater solidarity among cooperatives, trade unions and social enterprises"

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the International conference on "Forging greater solidarity among cooperatives, trade unions and social enterprises", Quezon City, Philippines, 20 September 2012

Social finance

Giving banks a good name

Is it possible for banks to devote themselves to the financial welfare of workers and still survive financial crises? The ILO looks at the Rokin Bank, a union-led cooperative in Japan.

Cooperatives: Resilient to crises, key to sustainable growth

In a message marking International Day of Cooperatives, ILO Director-General Juan Somavia salutes the approximately one billion people worldwide who are involved in cooperatives.

Co-operatives Make a Better World: Remarks by Mr José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs

Remarks by Mr José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs, Executive Director, Employment Sector, ILO, at the Ministerial Breakfast on “Promoting productive capacity for sustainable livelihoods: the role of cooperatives” at ECOSOC, New York, 5 July 2012