All publications: cooperatives

Handbook on Cooperatives for use by Workers' Organizations

This handbook lists the essential things to know about cooperatives for all those who are interested as members, future members, politicians or staff of national or international institutions in charge of the promotion and development of...

Project design manual: A step-by-step tool to support the development of cooperatives and other forms of self-help organizations

HIV and AIDS Peer Education Manual

A joint ILO and Family Health International (FHI) teaching manual used in capacity building activities to tackle the lack of adequate knowledge regarding HIV and AIDS.

HIV and AIDS Education and Counselling Manual in Cooperatives and Informal Sector Economy

A manual to educate and sensitize cooperative members and informal workers on HIV and AIDS.

“How-to” Guide on Economic Reintegration: Children Formerly Associated with Armed Forces and Groups

A Guide to assist agencies and individuals in achieving the successful economic reintegration of young people formerly associated with armed forces and groups, and other conflict-affected children. It provides practical guidance to implement the...

Let’s Organize! : A Syndicoop Handbook for Trade Unions and Cooperatives About Organizing Workers in the Informal Economy

A resource tool for trade union and cooperative organizers and trainers.

Know About Business - KAB

A training methodology to create awareness about entrepreneurship among youth.

Socio-Economic Reintegration of Ex-Combatants Guidelines

Practical policy and practice guidelines to reintegrate excombatants socio-economically in their community.

Local Economic Recovery in Post Conflict Guidelines

Guidelines to provide criteria and instruments inn planning and implementing post-conflict employment promotion based on the local economic recovery (LER) approach: an area-based approach to economic recovery for job creation, income generation, and...

Cooperatives for People-Centred Rural Development

Key issues and policy options to promote the cooperative business model in rural areas.

Mainstreaming environmental issues in sustainable enterprises: An exploration of issues, experiences and options

Employment Working Paper No. 75

Cooperative facility for Africa - CoopAfrica (External Impact Assessment Summary)

Project RAF/06/53/UKM - Evaluation consultant: Ignace Pollet

Economic and other benefits of the entrepreneurs’ cooperative as a specific form of enterprise cluster

This book presents entrepreneurs’ cooperatives - cooperatives formed by groups of entrepreneurs, independently owned businesses, tradesmen, professionals, or by municipalities and other public bodies. It shows that cooperatives have helped...

Concept Note

Guideline for Cooperative Legislation

Background Paper

Executive Summary

Policy Brief 10 - The Resilience of Social and Solidarity Enterprises: the Example of Cooperatives

What sets cooperatives, mutual benefit societies and social entreprises apart from other forms of private enterprise is their connection to the community, underlying values, ethics and democratic principles. The Global Jobs Pact acknowledges the...

Issue brief # 3

Rural women producers and cooperatives in conflict settings in Arab States

This issue brief aims to shed light on the reality and potential of cooperatives in empowering rural women in conflict settings in Arab States, based on the experience of Lebanon, Iraq, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS).

Working Paper No. 1 - Reinventing the wheel? : African cooperatives in a liberalized economic environment

CoopAFRICA Working Paper No. 1