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| Reference to cooperatives and the social and solidarity economy in the ILO Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work |
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The 108th International Labour Conference adopted a Declaration for the Future of Work. The Declaration reaffirms the relevance and importance of the ILO’s mandate in a changing world of work. The Declaration recognizes that in these times of “transformative change in the world of work” and “persistent inequalities”, “it is imperative to act with urgency to seize the opportunities and address the challenges to shape a fair, inclusive and secure future of work for all”.
The text refers to cooperatives and the social and solidarity economy as follows: “The ILO must direct its efforts to (…) supporting the role of the private sector as a principal source of growth and job creation by promoting an enabling environment for entrepreneurship and sustainable enterprises, as well as cooperatives and the social and solidarity economy in order to generate decent work, productive employment and improved living standards for all''.
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| News from the field & ongoing initiatives |
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| Training of trainers on cooperative development in Jordan |
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A training of facilitators of Think.Coop and Start.Coop was organized in the framework of the project ‘Advancing Decent Work in Jordan’s Agriculture Sector: A compliance model’ in Amman. The training is aimed to strengthen the role of cooperatives in advancing decent work for Jordanian workers and Syrian refugees in the agricultural sector. More |
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| Training of trainers on cooperative development in the occupied Palestinian territory |
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In the framework of the project ‘Land and Rights – Paths to Social and Solidarity Economy in Palestine’, a training of facilitators of Think.Coop and Start.Coop was organized in Ramallah, oPt with participants from the Cooperative Work Agency (CWA), Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), Palestinian Agricultural Cooperatives Union (PACU), Palestine Youth Union (PYU) and the Arab Centre for Agricultural Development (ACAD). More |
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| Think.Coop and Start.Coop have been updated! |
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Think.Coop and Start.Coop training guides have been updated based on feedback received from pilot training sessions held in 2018 in the Americas (Bolivia and Peru), Africa (Central African Republic and Madagascar), Asia (Cambodia and Myanmar) and Europe (Italy and Turkey). The key updates include the addition of new sections and exercises and the provision of further details and clarification on existing contents. These training guides will be complemented by facilitators’ guides that will be launched in the coming weeks. Check out the updated Think.Coop and Start.Coop |
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| SADA Women’s Cooperative in Turkey selected for the Paris Peace Forum |
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In April 2019, SADA Women’s Cooperative was established in Turkey within the framework of the project ‘Strengthening the resilience of Syrian women and girls and host communities’. The cooperative was selected as one of the 100 projects for the second edition of the Paris Peace Forum in the field of an inclusive economy. More |
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| Meeting updates and spotlight interviews |
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| ILO-ICA Joint Conference on Cooperatives and the Future of Work |
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Marking the ILO Centenary, the ILO and the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) co-organized a conference that reflects on the role of cooperative enterprises in promoting decent work for all in a changing world of work. A new memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the ILO and the ICA marking the collaboration between the two organizations to work towards a human-centred agenda for the future of work with full engagement of the cooperative movement. More |
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| ILO participates in a research conference on measuring and reporting sustainability performance of enterprises |
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At the research conference organized by the UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) in Geneva, ILO Cooperatives Unit Manager presented on the role of cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE) in advancing the SDGs, particularly SDG8, and emphasized the importance of reliable and comparable statistics in line with the guidelines concerning statistics on cooperatives adopted at the 20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians in October 2018. More |
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| COPAC held its 78th Annual Board Meeting in Geneva |
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Currently led by the ILO, the Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC) reviewed the progress of its work in the last year. The highlight was the adoption of the Guidelines concerning the statistics on cooperatives during the 20th ICLS with the support of the COPAC Technical Working Group on Statistics of Cooperatives. More |
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| New ILO publications and other noteworthy resources |
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| Cooperatives and social enterprises: Work and employment in selected countries |
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Based on case studies from organizations in five EU Member States, this report by Eurofound investigates the contribution of European cooperatives and social enterprises to job creation and retention. It describes the characteristics of the jobs created and retained as well as outlining the various support measures used by organizations to develop and innovate. It offers some policy pointers aimed at supporting the delivery of these jobs in cooperatives and social enterprises. More |
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| Future histories: What Ada Lovelace, Tom Paine, and the Paris Commune teach us about digital technology |
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Weaving together histories of computing and social movements with modern theories of the mind, society, and self, O’Shea constructs a “usable past” that help us determine our digital future. What can the Paris Commune tell us about earlier experiments in sharing resources—like the Internet—in common? Can debates over digital access be guided by Tom Paine’s theories of democratic economic redistribution? And how is Elon Musk not a visionary but a throwback to Victorian-era utopians? More |
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