Resources on cooperatives

  1. 12th Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy – High-level panel 2: Partnerships for inclusive and sustainable development: SSE ecosystems beyond COVID-19 crisis

    31 January 2022

  2. ILO presents new initiative on statistics of cooperatives at the ICA Cooperative Research Conference

    03 December 2021

    The ILO presented an initiative on Implementing the Guidelines concerning Statistics of Cooperatives at the 2021 ICA Cooperative Research Conference.

  3. ILO COOP contributes to the 2021 CIRIEC international conference

    23 September 2021

    The ILO initiative on the implementation of the guidelines concerning statistics of cooperatives was introduced to the global research community on social and solidarity economy.

  4. Strengthening Social and Solidarity Economy Knowledge Base

    18 August 2021

    The project aims to contribute towards creating an enabling legal and policy framework that could enhance the visibility and raise awareness about the contribution of SSE towards achieving inclusive and sustainable development and decent work.

  5. ILO COOP held meetings with Statistics Korea and SK for pilot testing of international guidelines on statistics of cooperatives

    30 July 2021

  6. The cooperative statistics component of the ILO project on Strengthening SSE Knowledge Base in Asia was featured at the third Social Economy Fair in Korea

    29 July 2021

    The ILO presentation at the third Social Economy Fair, held in Gwangju from July 2 to July 4, focused on statistics of cooperatives component of the second phase of the project on Strengthening SSE Policy in Asia.

  7. Public policies for social and solidarity economy: Assessing progress in seven countries

    13 October 2017

    This particular study is a comparative analysis of seven ILO case studies. In the first part, an overview of the public policies for social and solidarity economy in Brazil, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, the Philippines, South Africa, the Republic of Korea and Italy is presented. The second part offers a comparative perspective of public policy for social and solidarity economy in terms of key instruments, achievements and limitations. Different pathways are identified and four specific challenges related to state capacity, policy coherence, participation and sustainability are examined.