Resources on cooperatives

  1. The COVID-19 response: Cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy (SSE) organizations

    01 June 2020

    This video shows how cooperatives and other SSE enterprises around the world are being affected by and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, including through interviews with cooperative practitioners working on the front line. It also highlights relevant government measures that include cooperatives and the wider SSE as beneficiaries and implementing partners. The film was produced by Blake House Filmmakers Cooperative in the UK for the ILO.

  2. ILO and UNTFSSE participate in the first meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Luxembourg Declaration under the Spanish Presidency

    01 June 2020

    Representatives from the EU member states confirmed their commitment to promote the social economy and discussed the importance of social economy organizations in COVID-19 recovery measures.

  3. Interview with Michele Pellegrini: The experience of a social cooperative, Cadore in Italy

    29 May 2020

    The ILO and its International Training Centre in Turin, mark ten-years of organizing the Academy on the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE). Since 2010, more than 1,200 participants from all continents participated in the 11 editions of the academy. To mark this occasion, the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit is conducting a series of interviews that features colleagues and experts who have been closely engaged in making the last eleven editions of the ILO Academy on SSE possible. In these interviews, they reflect on their experiences and also share their thoughts on the current COVID-19 crisis and post-crisis situation.

  4. UNTFSSE members and observers discuss COVID-19 responses and work-plan priorities

    27 May 2020

    The ILO chaired the meeting and its Cooperatives Unit shared its work related to the COVID-19 response.

  5. Interview with Joseph Connolly, former ILO official

    18 May 2020

    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 cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE). The interviews reflect on their experience and contributions in the past and shares their thoughts on the future of cooperatives and the SSE in a changing world of work.

  6. Cooperatives in Post-Covid-19 Development: Challenges, Opportunities and Partnerships

    18 May 2020

  7. ILO COOP COVID-19 Message to Brazil Cooperatives and Social and solidarity organizations

    18 May 2020

  8. ILO COOP COVID-19 Solidarity Message

    18 May 2020

  9. Solidarity letter with Cooperatives and other Social and Solidarity Economy Organizations

    18 May 2020

    This is a note from the ILO COOP Unit reaffirming its solidarity with the cooperative and wider social and solidarity economy partners in these times of uncertainty.

  10. UNTFSSE special meeting on COVID-19

    29 April 2020

    The UN Inter-Agency Task Force on the Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) organized a virtual meeting to discuss the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the social and solidarity economy (SSE) and its responses to the unfolding crises.