Resources on cooperatives

  1. Three editions of the Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) forthcoming in 2019

    17 January 2019

  2. Charles Bodwell, Enterprise Development Specialist at ILO DWT Bangkok

    11 January 2019

    COOP Champions features ILO colleagues from around the world working on cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy enterprises. It highlights their contributions, and shares highlights of their experiences, current work, and future aspirations.

  3. Training of trainers workshop on cooperative development conducted towards promoting a sustainable vanilla sector in Madagascar

    07 December 2018

    Eight trainers were trained on ILO’s tools and methodologies on cooperative development with a view to tapping into the potential of cooperatives to promote decent work in the vanilla value chain.

  4. ILO launches new tools in Bolivia to promote cooperativism

    29 November 2018

    Local authorities and specialists from social organizations in La Paz were trained on Think.Coop and Start.Coop training methodologies with a view to providing better job opportunities for rural and informal economy workers.

  5. The first roll-out of My.Coop in the Northern Province of Zambia

    28 November 2018

    My.Coop – Managing your agricultural cooperative training package has been translated into Bemba and rolled out for the first time in the Northern Province of Zambia.

  6. Think.COOP introduced nationally for Cambodian agriculture cooperatives

    22 November 2018

    The national consultation workshop on Think.COOP was organized on the 7th and 8th of November 2018 in Phnom Penh, with participants from all of Cambodia’s 25 provinces and a municipality.

  7. ILO COOP eNewsUpdate Issue No 10, October 2018

    31 October 2018

  8. Presentation on ILO’s training tools on cooperatives and social and solidarity economy (SSE)

    29 October 2018

    This video introduces the key ILO tools for capacity building and training of cooperatives and other SSE enterprises. The video has been prepared for the Mid-term regional workshop on “Strengthening National Capacities of Producer Organizations in the NENA Region” (Oman, Lebanon and Sudan) which took place in Lebanon on the 30 and 31 of October 2018.

  9. Guidelines for use and adaptation of the ILO’s training tool Start.COOP

    11 September 2018

    Start.COOP has been developed as a low-cost, easy to use training tool for those interested in starting and launching a cooperative in a participatory manner. It draws on technical content from existing materials in different ILO cooperative training tools and peer-to-peer, activity based learning methodology from the ILO’s Community-Based Enterprise Development (C-BED) programme.

  10. ILO participates in a research conference to exchange on the role of cooperatives in a changing world of work

    11 July 2018

    ILO officials participated in the 2018 ICA European Research Conference in Wageningen, the Netherlands, to exchange on the role of cooperatives in a changing world of work.