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The ILO and the UNTFSSE participated in GSEF2021

The leadership and staff of ILO contributed to a number of sessions at GSEF2021.

The UNTFSSE organized a session as part of the 8th EMES conference on statistics

The UNTFSSE session discussed opportunities and challenges around statistics concerning the SSE.

The ILO and the UNTFSSE participated in European Social Economy Week 2021

Director of ILO Enterprises Department and Chair of UNTFSSE, Mr Vic Van Vuuren participated at the European Social Economy Week 2021 in a discussion on the global challenges and perspectives of social economy as a driver of sustainable development.

The UN Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) held its 37th regular meeting

The 37th UNTFSSE meeting was virtually held on 21 October 2021 and brought together almost 50 participants from seven UN member organizations (ILO, UNRISD, UNDESA, UNDP, UNCTAD, ESCAP) and OECD, thirteen observer organizations (CIRIEC, EURICSE,...

COOP Champions

Ayşe Turunç Kankal, ILO Office for Turkey in Ankara

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...

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“Strengthening Cooperatives as a Response to the Pandemic” Project supports 146 women entrepreneurs in 6 women’s cooperatives

Turkey’s Hepsiburada prepares to take a further step in providing support to women, under the “Technology Empowerment for Women Entrepreneurs Program”, through the project “Strengthening Cooperatives as a Response to the Pandemic” in cooperation...

Training by ILO, ACTED to promote social solidarity through joint income-generating activities in Lebanon’s agriculture sector

An initiative aimed at fostering social solidarity and promoting decent work through the development of joint income-generating initiatives launched its first training for vulnerable communities in Lebanon.


The UNTFSSE and RIPESS host a session in the framework of GSEF2021

The session will be held virtually on Wednesday 6 October at 13:00 - 14:30 Mexico time - 20:00-21:30 CET

Building back better: the social economy as a driving force for change

In a session of the OECD event “The Social and Solidarity Economy: From the Margins to the Mainstream”, ILO Enterprises Department Director and the Chair of the UN Task Force on the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), noted how the ILO envisions a...

The ILO DG participated in the OECD high-level conference on SSE

The political momentum around SSE was discussed at the opening session.

ILO COOP contributes to the 2021 CIRIEC international conference

The ILO initiative on the implementation of the guidelines concerning statistics of cooperatives was introduced to the global research community on social and solidarity economy.

Jordanian trainer embarks on cooperative management training initiative, supported by the ILO

Jordanian Ahlam Mahadeen took part in ILO’s Trainers of Trainers (ToT) programme on My.Coop and is now training cooperative members on the package, which focuses on the management of agricultural cooperatives.

UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) releases new research on SSE statistics

The papers on Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) statistics aim at supporting stakeholders to deepen their understanding of the methodologies on SSE and policymakers to establish and improve SSE statistical systems

Training of Trainers Workshop on cooperative development for the elimination of child labour conducted in Mali

The ILO’s Cooperatives Unit and its FUNDAMENTALS Branch joined forces to organize a TOT workshop on cooperative development for the elimination of child labour in Mali in select supply chains

ILO COOP holds follow up activities as part of the project on Strengthen Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) policy in Asia

A number of follow-up activities are being held to disseminate key outputs of the project on Strengthening SSE Policy in Asia.

ILO and the UNTFSSE will participate in the OECD event “The Social and Solidarity Economy: From the Margins to the Mainstream”

The event will take place virtually from 13 to 16 September 2021, from 13:00 to 16:00 CEST

Registration is now open for the 12th edition of the ILO Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE)

The first ever virtual Academy on SSE will take place from 15 to 26 November 2021 in English, Portuguese, French and Spanish

ILO COOP Manager Simel Esim participated in a webinar on Home-based Workers and the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE)

During the webinar that was organized by HomeNet International, ILO COOP Manager answered questions on the definition and components of SSE, the relevance of SSE as a framework, its relation to public and private sectors, and the upcoming general...

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ILO Turkey provides Occupational Safety and Health Training to Members of Women’s Cooperative

ILO COOP Manager provides a keynote for the 5th Annual Conference of the Cooperatives University in Kenya

The ILO contribution to the Annual Conference of the Cooperatives University in Kenya that took place between 27 and 28 July 2021 focused on the role of the Social and Solidarity Economy in attaining the sustainable development goals.