All news: social and solidarity economy

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.

Youth income generating groups show promise

Through the Danish Government supported ILO ‘Skills for Youth Employment and Rural Development Programme’, young people organized in self-help groups in Beitbridge are running small enterprises after benefiting from community-based vocational...

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

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...

Global South-South Development Expo

ILO presents innovative South-South development solutions

The ILO contribution to the Global South-South Development Expo 2014 will feature scalable solutions related to South-South cooperation on social protection floors, the eradication of child labour, the social and solidarity economy, and fragile...

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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...