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ILO’s Cooperatives Unit and Social Finance Programme co-organize an elective session at the Rural development academy 2021

29 April 2021

ILO’s Cooperatives Unit and Social Finance Programme co-organized an elective on “Sustainable Finance and Cooperatives in Rural Areas” to highlight the role of cooperatives in the rural economy and access to financial services through a range of traditional and emerging financial service providers.

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ILO Contributes to a UN DESA webinar on MSME formalization through cooperatives

15 March 2021

The webinar on “Promoting MSME Formalization through the Cooperative Enterprise Model” took place on 11 March 2021 with the participation of policy makers, cooperatives, and development partners

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Mapping responses by cooperatives and social and solidarity economy organizations to forced displacement

21 March 2020

Produced as part of a wider programme on responding to forced displacement crises, the report identifies good practices, lessons learned and potential areas of innovation by cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy organizations working in displacement contexts.

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African cooperative leaders share their observations on the 10th ILO-JCCU Study Tour

30 October 2019

African cooperative leaders visited Japanese cooperatives and exchanged knowledge and practices in improving members’ livelihoods and addressing various development challenges in the changing world of work.

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Sharing research findings on the potential of cooperatives in promoting universal health coverage

28 June 2019

On June 20, 2019 the ILO co-organized a meeting on the “Cooperatives for Health” initiative at the Biotech Campus in Geneva.

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ILO hosts partners meeting on cooperative responses to advancing public health

28 May 2018

ILO hosts partners meeting to discuss the next steps on research exploring the potential of cooperatives to advance public health in Cameroon and Kenya.

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Discussing next steps toward advancing universal health coverage through cooperatives

26 April 2018

During the Geneva Health Forum in April 2018, the research findings on the potential of cooperatives in advancing universal health coverage were presented to discuss next steps with a range of stakeholders.

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ILO sponsors training on agricultural cooperative management through My.Coop distance learning programme

12 March 2018

Since 2012 the International Training Centre of the ILO has organized a distance learning Training of Trainers programme on My.Coop – Managing your agricultural cooperative training package. The latest edition took place in late 2017, with participation of four participants sponsored by the ILO’s Cooperatives Unit.

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Exploring the potential of cooperatives in advancing universal health coverage

28 November 2017

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African cooperative leaders share their observations on the 2017 ILO/JCCU study tour in Japan

28 September 2017

The 8th edition of the ILO/Japanese Consumers' Cooperative Union (JCCU) Study Tour for African Cooperative Leaders took place in Japan from 29 August to 6 September 2017 with participants from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Swaziland and representatives from ICA Africa and ILO COOP Unit. ILO COOP interviewed the participants on their observations of the study tour and the next steps they would like to take in applying these observations. The managers of ILO-Tokyo, ILO COOP and JCCU also share their reflections on the study tour.