All news: social and solidarity economy

Significant steps taken in the establishment of a Women’s Cooperative in Gaziantep

Capacity building training was delivered in the context of establishing a Women’s Cooperative aimed under the project “Strengthening the Resilience of Syrian Women and Girls” being implemented in Gaziantep jointly by UN Women, ILO and ASAM.

A survey on the needs for a global knowledge platform on cooperatives and mutual societies in the health sector

Procedures Initiated to Establish SADA Women’s Cooperative

The work was taken to a higher stage to establish a cooperative planned under the project “Strengthening the Resilience of Syrian Women and Girls” being implemented in Gaziantep jointly by UN Women, ILO and ASAM. The application to establish the...

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

GSEF: Promoting the social and solidarity economy for human-centred development

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE)....

Strengthening cooperatives in Jordan to improve livelihoods and advance decent work for Jordanian workers and Syrian refugees

Drawing on the earlier work and pilot interventions, the ILO will further strengthen cooperatives in Jordan within the framework of a new Dutch-funded project on advancing decent work for Jordanian workers and Syrian refugees in the agriculture...

Towards building a coherent strategy of cooperative development in the Andean Region

The ILO has been engaging with cooperatives and rural producers’ organizations in the Andean Region with a view to developing a coherent strategy on cooperative development for decent work in selected countries.

ILO shares its message for a parallel event at the 63rd CSW on empowering women in waste management

ILO has sent a video message for a parallel event to the 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) on cooperative ways to empower informal women workers in waste management chains.

ILO’s participation in the International Conference on Localizing the SDGs and Co-Constructing the Means of Implementation

The ILO, as a chair of the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), participated in an international conference on the role of SSE in implementing and localizing the SDGs which took place in the Republic of...

A key step taken towards developing a social economy policy in South Africa

A draft Green Paper on a social economy policy in South Africa presented at a national consultation conference in Sandton. In a speech to the conference, ILO Director-General Guy Ryder reflected on the relevance of social and solidarity economy...

Social and solidarity economy

Social enterprises play a key role in a decent future of work

Innovative solutions are needed to combat the challenges facing the future of work said ILO Director-General Guy Ryder at the Social Economy National Consultation Conference in Durban, South Africa.

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

CLIMBS: Extending mutual protection and building resilience in the Philippines

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and social and solidarity economy (SSE). On this...

A youth cooperative launched to develop the honey value chain in northwestern Tunisia

Participants’ reflections on the 9th ILO-JCCU African Cooperative Leaders’ Study Tour

Since 2010, the ILO, through the Cooperatives Unit (COOP) and its Office for Tokyo, and the Japanese Consumers’ Co-operative Union (JCCU) have co-organized African Cooperative Leaders' Study Tours in Japan to encourage the exchange of knowledge and...

ILO and ITC-ILO engagement on cooperative and social and solidarity economy development in 2019

The key areas of collaboration in 2019 include development and dissemination of new training tools on cooperatives and a series of ILO Academies on SSE and the future of work.

Three editions of the Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) forthcoming in 2019

COOP Champions

Charles Bodwell, Enterprise Development Specialist at ILO DWT Bangkok

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...

A technical cooperation pioneer

Working on the river of the White Lily

During the 100 years of the ILO some extraordinary people have worked for the Organization. One of them was Peter Goullart who, during the 1950s helped develop co-operatives in several countries in Asia. He recounted his experiences in a book,...

Uses of cooperatives and other SSE organizations reflected at the 2018 edition of the ITC-ILO Academy on the transition to the formal...

ILO’s participation in the WIEGO General Assembly

ILO COOP participated in the seventh General Assembly of Women in Informal Economy: Globalizing Organizing (WIEGO) that took place in Johannesburg, South Africa from 12-14 November 2018.

ILO’s message for the 10th ICA-AP Cooperative Forum in Tehran, Iran

ILO has sent a message to a biennial conference aimed at discussing how cooperatives can contribute to more resilient and sustainable economy.