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Agenda (14 Aug 2020) - A discussion with facilitators of overseas mobility

Agenda of a virtual meeting with the PDOT trainers organized undAgenda of a virtual meeting with the Facilitators of Overseas Mobility organized under the ILO under the EU-India Cooperation and Dialogue on Migration and Mobility is, in partnership...

Lockdown generation

Youth and COVID-19 in Poland: Impacts on jobs, education, rights and mental well-being

Between April and May 2020, the ILO and its partners in the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth (DJY) conducted a global survey on the impacts of COVID-19 on the lives of young people (aged 18-29) with regard to employment, education,...

Global report

Youth & COVID-19: Impacts on jobs, education, rights and mental well-being

The report captures the immediate effects of the pandemic on the lives of young people (aged 18–29) with regards to employment, education, mental well-being, rights and social activism. Over 12,000 responses were received from young people in 112...

Executive Summary

Youth & COVID-19: Impacts on jobs, education, rights and mental well-being

Executive Summary of the survey report

Concept Note (11 Aug 2020)- A discussion with the PDOT trainers

Concept Note of a virtual meeting with the PDOT trainers organized under the ILO under the EU-India Cooperation and Dialogue on Migration and Mobility is, in partnership with India Centre for Migration.

Agenda (11 Aug 2020) - A discussion with the PDOT trainers

Agenda of a virtual meeting with the PDOT trainers organized under the ILO under the EU-India Cooperation and Dialogue on Migration and Mobility is, in partnership with India Centre for Migration.

Partnership updates (continued)

Start.COOP - a Step-by-step tool to start up a cooperative - Training Guide

Start.COOP is a low-cost, easy to use tool for those interested in starting and launching a cooperative in a participatory manner. It draws on technical content from existing materials in different ILO cooperative training tools. It also uses a...

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

Aylin Çiğdem Köne, Professor of Development Economics, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Turkey

“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)....

Agenda - Webinar on COVID-19: Return to work and Preventive Measures in context to the State of Kerala

Agenda describes list of key participants and their topics

Child’s Play

The case for developing childcare services to boost women’s economic empowerment

Child’s Play

The case for developing childcare services to boost women’s economic empowerment

ILO COOP 100 Interview

ILO COOP 100 Interview with Iain Macdonald, former Director General of the International Cooperative Alliance

Established in March 1920, the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit marks its Centenary in 2020. On this occasion, the ILO COOP 100 Interview series features past and present ILO colleagues and key partners who were closely engaged in the ILO's work on...

ILO COOP 100 Interview

ILO COOP 100 Interview with Mr. Upali Herath, a cooperative practitioner from Sri Lanka

Established in March 1920, the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit marks its Centenary in 2020. On this occasion, the ILO COOP 100 Interview series features past and present ILO colleagues and key partners who were closely engaged in the ILO's work on...

New challenges, new opportunities

The socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside down. There is probably no worker or business in the world that has not been affected. The latest ILO estimates show that working hour losses have worsened during the first...

ILO COOP 100 Interview

Hans Lind, Interim Country Representative for Colombia and Senior Advisor on Cooperative Development at We Effect

Established in March 1920, the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit marks its Centenary in 2020. On this occasion, the ILO COOP 100 Interview series features past and present ILO colleagues and key partners who were closely engaged in the ILO's work on...

IT for Change hosts a webinar on the potential of cooperatives as a means to organize workers in the platform economy

IT for Change organized a session “Going co-op: A platform model for workers in the South” as part of RightsCon, an annual summit bringing together multidisciplinary actors from technologists, business leaders, and activists to journalists, and...

ILO COOP 100 Interview

Dr Sonja Novkovic, the Chair of the ICA Committee on Cooperative Research and a Professor at Saint Mary’s University in Canada

Established in March 1920, the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit marks its Centenary in 2020. On this occasion, the ILO COOP 100 Interview series features past and present ILO colleagues and key partners who were closely engaged in the ILO's work on...

First training session “Social economy: tool for decent work creation and social inclusion” organized by ITC-ILO in cooperation with ILO...

As part of “Dignità in campo” project, a distance learning course was organized to discuss the principles of the social and solidarity economy (SSE) and how they can be used as a tool to support decent work and foster social resilience and inclusion...

COPAC organizes an International Day of Cooperatives event on cooperatives and climate action

ILO’s Enterprises Department Director and Chair of the Committee on Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC), Mr van Vuuren, participated as a speaker in a virtual event organized on the occasion of the International Day of Cooperatives...