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Turning waste fruit into a profitable business

Cooperatives have played an important role in Indonesia by helping to boost growth, reduce poverty and promote social cohesion. As the world celebrates the UN International Day of Cooperatives, Gita Lingga reports on a successful project involving...

Cooperatives show the way out of the crisis

Cooperatives have been more resilient to the global economic and jobs crisis than other sectors. The UN International Day of Cooperatives, which takes place this year on 7 July, offers a chance for cooperatives to reassert their position in the...

Reducing poverty and creating jobs through cooperatives in Indonesia

The cooperative movement in Indonesia is considered as one of the largest civil society organizations as well as social enterprises with great potential in rural development and employment creation.

Green and fair: Cooperatives in Ethiopia

By their very nature, cooperatives can balance economic, environmental, and social needs. The ILO will be showcasing some of its successful experiences in this field at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). One of them...

Solidarity message at the "National Show of Cooperative Force" of the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA), Philippine Cooperative...

By Mr Lawrence Jeff Johnson, Director, ILO Country Office for the Philippines at the "National Show of Cooperative Force" of the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA), Philippine Cooperative Center (PCC) and the City Government of Quezon City to...

From the depths of an African shantytown, a nascent youth employment movement grows

In Africa’s second largest slum, youth unemployment is sky high. But cooperative projects are helping youth find work and slowly lift themselves out of poverty through such projects as raising food in community gardens, processing waste for bio-fuel...

Statement by Juan Somavia to the General Assembly of the International Co-operative Alliance

The biannual General Assembly of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) is being held from 15-18 November 2011 in Cancun, Mexico. On this occasion the global cooperative community also marked the launch of the UN International Year of...

International Year of Cooperatives: In Kenya, working hand in hand with the ILO to create cooperatives and jobs

Cooperatives provide some 100 million jobs around the world. Many of these jobs provide for basic human needs, such as the dairy farms of Kenya. Today, some 13,000 cooperatives in Kenya have some 9 million members. As the United Nations launches its...

Message from ILO Director-General, Juan Somavia, on the occasion of the launch of International Year of Cooperatives

Vavuniya North Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society to support more than 2,000 paddy farmers

The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Multi-Purpose Cooperative Society (MPCS) of Vavuniya North have joined forces to re-tool a major rice milling operation damaged during the years of Sri Lanka’s civil conflict.

Statement by Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Office, On the occasion of International Day of Cooperatives - 2...

Message by ILO Director-General on the occasion of International Day of Cooperatives

Sustainable enterprises

Cooperatives and the crisis: “Our customers are also our owners”

Cooperatives have been more resilient to the deepening global economic and jobs crisis than other sectors. Report from Sweden.

Statement by Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Office, On the occasion of International Day of Cooperatives - 3...

International Day of Cooperatives - 4 July 2009

Migrant workers’ cooperatives as a crisis response

This year the theme of the International Day of Cooperatives focuses on the opportunities for co-operatives to effectively contribute to global economic recovery in times of crisis. In Indonesia, thousands of migrant workers, victims of the...

Statement by Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Office, On the occasion of International Day of Cooperatives - 5...

Statement by Juan Somavia, Director-General of the International Labour Office, On the occasion of International Day of Cooperatives - 4...

Coops and the global financial crisis

Cooperatives have been more resilient to the deepening global economic and jobs crisis than other sectors. ILO Online spoke with Hagen Henry, chief of the ILO’s Cooperatives Branch.

International Day of Cooperatives - Cooperating in times of crisis

This year, the growing role of cooperatives in confronting global crises of climate change and food price rises is garnering growing attention. Cooperatives can play an increasingly important role in balancing economic, social and environmental...

International Day of Cooperatives 2007 - Seeds of change: cooperatives in Ethiopia

Celebrated annually on the first Saturday of July, the International Day of Cooperatives highlights this year how cooperatives can promote corporate social responsibility by their very nature as enterprises that balance economic, environmental, and...