All publications: social and solidarity economy
Technical report of the pilot programme for increasing income security of rural youth in Bayankhongor and Uvurkhangai aimags of Mongolia
This report presents the strategies, outcomes and lessons of the pilot programme for rural youth in Mongolia. It also provides a number recommendations to improve income security of young herders.
SCORE Colombia Case Study: SCORE Training in regions of armed conflict
Empowering organizations of the social and solidarity economy (SSE) in Colombia
My.COOP Managing your agricultural cooperatives (in Mongolian)
The training package has been designed to enable existing and potential managers of agricultural cooperatives to identify and address major challenges that are specific to cooperatives in market-oriented agricultural development.
Module 2: Cooperative service provision
It is a part of a training package “Managing your agricultural cooperative - My.COOP” that was translated and adapted into the Mongolian herders’ cooperative context. The training package that consists of four modules and a trainers’ manual is now...
Module 4: Cooperative marketing
It is a part of a training package “Managing your agricultural cooperative - My.COOP” that was translated and adapted into the Mongolian herders’ cooperative context. The training package that consists of four modules and a trainers’ manual is now...
Module 3: Supply of farm inputs
It is a part of a training package “Managing your agricultural cooperative - My.COOP” that was translated and adapted into the Mongolian herders’ cooperative context. The training package that consists of four modules and a trainers’ manual is now...
Providing Care through Cooperatives 1: Survey and Interview Findings
Cooperatives are emerging as an innovative type of care provider, particularly in the absence of viable public or other private options.This report lists challenges and opportunities that cooperatives face in the care sector, highlighting resources...
Women’s Entrepreneurship Development
The ILO approach to Women’s Entrepreneurship Development - Sustainable Enterprises
Advancing gender equality: The co-operative way
Great strides have been made towards gender equality over the last two decades. Nevertheless, deep gender disparities persist across the globe, surfacing in labour markets, as well as other realms. Compared to men, women continue to earn less, are...
Report
Advancing gender equality: The co-operative way
Great strides have been made towards gender equality over the last two decades. Nevertheless, deep gender disparities persist across the globe, surfacing in labour markets, as well as other realms. Compared to men, women continue to earn less, are...
The story of the ILO’s Promotion of Cooperatives Recommendation, 2002 (No. 193)
This publication highlights how the Recommendation No. 193 is being used, and its impact on the laws, policies and practices of countries. The publication also provides a brief account of the ILO’s engagement with cooperative development.
Working Paper
Cooperating out of Isolation: The Case of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon, Jordan and Kuwait
While countries globally are moving towards recognizing domestic workers under their labour legislation, limited protection is provided to more than two million domestic workers working and living in the Middle East. The majority of these workers...
The cooperative way of doing business
The ILO approach to supporting cooperatives - Sustainable Enterprises
The Social and Solidarity Economy
The ILO approach to Social Economy - Sustainable Enterprises
Report
Tackling informality in e-waste management: The potential of cooperative enterprises
The present paper is the product of a joint effort by the Sectoral Policies Department and the Cooperatives Unit of the International Labour Organization (ILO). This initiative supports the ILO’s commitment to promote forms of employment that...
Cooperatives and the World of Work Series No. 2
Cooperating out of isolation: Domestic workers’ cooperatives
This note on ways cooperatives provide a way out of precarious and informal working arrangements for domestic workers, is the third in the series on Cooperatives and the World of Work.
Cooperatives and the World of Work Series No. 1
Leveraging the cooperative advantage for women’s empowerment and gender equality
This note is a part of the ILO COOP Cooperatives and the World of Work Series.
Report
Cooperatives and the Sustainable Development Goals: A contribution to the post-2015 development debate
This paper highlights the contribution of cooperatives to sustainable development with a view to stimulating discussion on the role of cooperatives in the design and implementation of SDGs.
Policy brief
Findings of the Assessment of Agricultural Cooperatives in West Bank: Challenges and Opportunities
This policy brief presents concrete strategies to improve the challenging situation that workers face in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) by exploring the full potential of agricultural cooperative enterprises in the West Bank.
Statistics on cooperatives
19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians, 2-11 October 2013