Publications and tools on cooperatives
March 2020
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Executive summary: Mapping responses by cooperatives and social and solidarity economy organizations to forced displacement
23 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.
September 2018
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The Cooperative Sector in Lebanon: What Role? What Future?
12 September 2018
This research examines why Lebanon’s cooperative movement’s ability to act as a driver of development and growth in the agricultural and agro-food sectors has been limited, what are the challenges and obstacles hindering cooperatives’ growth and expansion and what are the needed reforms and actions to allow the Lebanese cooperative sector to growth and succeed.
March 2009
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Rural women producers and cooperatives in conflicts settings in the Arab States
31 March 2009
Ongoing violent conflicts accentuate the challenges that women and men face in the rural areas of Iraq, Lebanon, and the occupied Palestinian territories. The potential of cooperatives for sharing risk, pooling resources, learning together, generating income, and balancing work and family responsibilities, has yet to be actualized.