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| Season's Greetings |
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At ILO COOP, we would like to wish you a great holiday season and a happy new year. As ILO COOP will mark its centenary in 2020, we look forward to engaging and collaborating with you around a series of activities that build on the history of the unit and reflect on its vision for the future throughout the year.
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| News from the field & ongoing initiatives |
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| Tunisian government adopts a bill on the social and solidarity economy (SSE) |
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A bill on the SSE was adopted by the Tunisian government on 11 December 2019. The ILO has provided technical support to the development of this bill through the PROMESS project funded by the Dutch government. The bill will be submitted to the National Assembly for possible adoption in the coming year. More information on the project is available here.
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| The Republic of Djibouti passes a law on the social and solidarity economy (SSE) |
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The new law was adopted to promote the development of SSE organizations as a means of extending social protection aligned with the National Strategy for Social Protection (SNPS) 2018-2022 and toward eradicating poverty. Djibouti is part of the Universal Social Protection (USP) 2030 Initiative, co-chaired by the ILO and the World Bank. The ILO will continue to work with the government for the implementation of the SNPS and the development of the SSE organizations. More
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| Sweet dreams are made of sugar and spice |
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Within the framework of the ILO’s EMPOWER project, women in the conflict-affected Northern Province of Sri Lanka have gained improved access to finance through their cooperatives to grow their sweet-making businesses. More |
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| Indian women cooperators are being trained to roll out Think.Coop |
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The ILO supported the adaptation and translation of the ILO’s Think.Coop training tool into Hindi and Gujarati. The Indian Academy of Self-Employed Women (IASEW) conducted a training of facilitators on Think.Coop, with a view to further strengthening women cooperative entrepreneurs in the rural and informal economies of Gujarat and other states in India. More |
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| Meeting updates and spotlight interviews |
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| ILO COOP sends a message for the MedUp Peer Review Meeting in Tunis |
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Co-financed by the European Commission and several European organizations, the MedUp project aims to promote an enabling environment for social entrepreneurship development in six Southern Mediterranean countries as a driver for inclusive growth and job creation. ILO COOP Unit Manager sent a video message for the project’s Peer Review Meeting in Tunis underlining the role of the ILO in the development of cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE). More |
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| Spotlight Interview: Brightly® – Scaling up worker cooperatives through the franchise model |
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“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE). On this occasion, ILO interviewed Ms. Maru Bautista, Director of the Cooperative Development Program at the Center for Family Life, about Brightly®, the first worker cooperative franchise in the United States. More |
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| New ILO publications and other noteworthy resources |
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Ms. Maura Fernández Salas completed her internship with ILO COOP. She supported the Unit’s work on the social and solidarity economy (SSE), particularly on communications and event coordination. More |
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http://ilo.msgfocus.com/u/1ye9QpXKGqn
