The ILO and the ITC-ILO held a series of meetings to discuss key areas of collaboration in 2019, including the development and dissemination of new training tools and the ILO SSE Academies focusing on the future of work. More

COOP Champions features ILO colleagues from around the world working on cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy enterprises. In this issue, we showcase Charles Bodwell from ILO Bangkok who has collaborated with ILO COOP Unit to develop a family of tools that build on an activity-based, peer-to-peer learning methodology. More

This brief unpacks the engagement of cooperatives in the garment supply chain, describing their implications for decent work and highlighting the action areas that address the challenges to integration of cooperatives in mainstream garment supply chains. More

The Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC), currently chaired by the ILO, has released a brief on cooperatives’ contributions to SDG 3 – ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all – as part of its "A Cooperative 2030" series. More

The Italian cooperative sector is among the largest in the world comprising over 60,000 cooperatives from all sectors of the economy directly employing 1.3 million people. This book explains how the Italian cooperative movement has grown. It examines the legislative framework and the cooperative business model that  competes in the marketplace as part of a network of central cooperative associations, financial and economic consortia, and financial companies among others. More