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  1. News

    ILO’s participation in a public seminar on economic democracy and worker cooperatives in Ireland

    09 April 2019

    ILO participates in a dialogue with trade unions, cooperatives and academics in Ireland and the UK on the potential of worker cooperatives in advancing economic democracy and decent work in the context of the future of work.

  2. Publication

    Impact Insurance Working Paper #55: Actuarial analysis of the Federal Sehat Sahulat Program

    01 April 2019

    Pakistan has made great strides in health coverage, offering valuable in-patient cover to some of the most vulnerable members of society through the Sehat Sahulat Program, an initiative of the federal government and the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In 2018, an independent actuarial study of the Program was commissioned by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH with funding from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. This report captures the key findings and recommendations of this study.

  3. Publication

    Case Brief #15: MicroEnsure's Innovation Lab

    01 April 2019

    MicroEnsure is a leading global insurance solutions provider serving more than 42 million customers in emerging markets. It has over a decade of experience of introducing innovations in insurance for the low-income market. This brief focuses on MicroEnsure's experience in setting up innovation lab.

  4. News

    ILO COOP/SSE eNewsUpdate Issue No 3, March 2019

    29 March 2019

  5. News

    Strengthening cooperatives in Jordan to improve livelihoods and advance decent work for Jordanian workers and Syrian refugees

    28 March 2019

    Drawing on the earlier work and pilot interventions, the ILO will further strengthen cooperatives in Jordan within the framework of a new Dutch-funded project on advancing decent work for Jordanian workers and Syrian refugees in the agriculture sector.

  6. Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

    GSEF: Promoting the social and solidarity economy for human-centred development

    28 March 2019

    “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). On this occasion, ILO interviewed Ms Laurence Kwark, Secretary General of the Global Social Economy Forum (GSEF), an international association of local governments and civil society networks engaged in the promotion of the SSE as a means of achieving inclusive and sustainable local development. GSEF is also one of the observers of the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on SSE (UNTFSSE) that is currently chaired by the ILO.

  7. Event

    The 10th Edition of the ILO Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy – A human-centred agenda for the future of work

  8. News

    Towards building a coherent strategy of cooperative development in the Andean Region

    27 March 2019

    The ILO has been engaging with cooperatives and rural producers’ organizations in the Andean Region with a view to developing a coherent strategy on cooperative development for decent work in selected countries.

  9. Article

    Emerging Insight: A decade of Impact Insurance

    27 March 2019

  10. Video

    Simuka-Phakama 2018 Green enterPRIZE Innovation Challenge JourneySimuka

    20 March 2019

    The Simuka-Phakama Green enterPRIZE Innovation Challenge launched in October 2018 is being implemented by the ILO in collaboration with local Business Development Service (BDS) providers. It aims to offer access to financial and non-financial BDS to innovative green and growth oriented small and medium-sized enterprises to grow their business.