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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.
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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.
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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.
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News
ILO COOP/SSE eNewsUpdate Issue No 3, March 2019
29 March 2019
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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.
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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.
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The 10th Edition of the ILO Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy – A human-centred agenda for the future of work
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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.
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Article
Emerging Insight: A decade of Impact Insurance
27 March 2019
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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.