All publications: social and solidarity economy
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).
How women fare in East African cooperatives: the case of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
Policy brief # 6
Enhancing the Participation of Rural Women Producers in Cooperatives in Yemen
This policy brief aims to contribute to the ongoing debate over the role of cooperatives in generating employment and income earning opportunities for women in Yemen and elsewhere in Arab States.
Working Paper No. 6 - Fair trade - fair futures : the Kilimanjaro Native Cooperative Union scholarship programme for orphan and vulnerable...
CoopAFRICA Working Paper No. 6 - with ILO/AIDS, Series on HIV/AIDS impact mitigation in the world of work – responses from the social economy
Report
Cooperating out of child labour: Harnessing the untapped potential of cooperatives and the cooperative movement to eliminate child labour
This report has been produced as a call to action to the world cooperative movement to join hands in fighting child labour. Cooperatives and the cooperative movement have an important, but as yet unharnessed, role to play in the elimination of child...
Resilience of the Cooperative Business Model in Times of Crisis
The financial and ensuing economic crisis has had negative impacts on the majority of enterprises; however, cooperative enterprises around the world are showing resilience to the crisis. Financial cooperatives remain financially sound; consumer...
Cooperating out of poverty: The renaissance of the African cooperative movement
This book offers an objective analysis of the state of affairs of the cooperative sector in Africa since the liberalization of the economy in the early 1990s.
Business group formation
The Business Group Formation (BGF) manual was developed with a view to help promote business group formation as a way to empower women and men in low-income communities by giving them more voice and improving their businesses in order to enhance...
MATCOM Cooperative management training
Helping micro and small enterprises cope with HIV/AIDS - A handbook for small business associations and service providers
This handbook attempts to respond to the needs and constraints of small and micro enterprises, formal or informal, by providing practical guidance for those who regulate, advise and support them. The objectives of the handbook are to raise awareness...