Resources on cooperatives

  1. Presentation of the Office Report on Decent work and the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE): Focus on Europe and Central Asia

    14 April 2022

  2. ILO COOP and ICA Brussels teams exchange on priority work areas and potential collaboration

    31 March 2022

    On 16 March 2022, staff members from the Cooperatives Unit of the ILO (ILO COOP) and the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) Headquarters in Brussels held a meeting in Geneva to exchange on priority areas of work and potential collaboration.

  3. The ILO and the UNTFSSE participated in Pact for Impact’s event on Social and Solidarity Economy

    28 March 2022

    The Chair of the UNTFSSE and the ILO’s Enterprises Department Director, Mr Vic van Vuuren, spoke at the Pact for Impact event “For an International Recognition of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE)” on 4th March 2022.

  4. Call for a national consultant to evaluate and make recommendations on the Guidelines concerning Statistics of Cooperatives in Turkey

    01 March 2022

  5. “The role of cooperatives in eliminating child labour” tool is now available in Spanish

    28 February 2022

  6. We Effect translates Think.Coop into Macedonian

    25 February 2022

  7. We Effect translates Think.Coop into Albanian

    25 February 2022

  8. Francesca Ottolenghi, Chief of International Relations, EU Policies, International Development Cooperation and Internationalization Office, and Chief of Sustainability and Cooperation Office Legacoop in Italy

    15 February 2022

    “Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with cooperative and wider social and solidarity economy (SSE) policy makers, researchers and practitioners from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work. On this occasion, the ILO interviewed Francesca Ottolenghi who is the Chief of International Relations, EU Policies, International Development Cooperation and Internationalization Office of Legacoop in Italy. She is also Legacoop’s Chief of Sustainability and Cooperation Office.

  9. 12th Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy - Elective 5: SSE and formalisation of the informal economy

    31 January 2022

  10. 12th Academy on the Social and Solidarity Economy - Closing Session

    31 January 2022