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Message from ILO COOP
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We are living through a moment of great disruption. The unfolding crises around the COVID-19 pandemic are further exacerbating already existing injustices and precariousness. On this International Workers’ Day millions of workers around the world are without a job and unable to sustain themselves and their families. Others are endangering their own health while providing health care and ensuring continued provision of goods and services. Some are adapting to working from home and balancing multiple responsibilities. More needed than ever is commitment to social justice, democracy, solidarity, social responsibility, and caring for others. Cooperatives and wider social and solidarity economy enterprises and organizations need to be included across the different phases of COVID-19 response. Their values and principles can guide the transition toward not only a new normal but a better normal.
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UNTFSSE special meeting on COVID-19
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| The UN Inter-Agency Task Force on the Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) organized a virtual meeting to discuss the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the SSE and its responses to the unfolding crises. It brought together 40 participants including representatives from six member organizations and ten observer organizations. More |
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Assessing market opportunities in East Darfur and West Kordofan, Sudan
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| As part of the Partnership for improving Prospects for host communities and forcibly displaced persons (PROSPECTS), the ILO undertook a mission, in March, to conduct its integrated enterprise and market systems assessment in West Kordofan and East Darfur, Sudan. The assessment will provide a solid empirical and analytical understanding of the market system as well as the dynamics surrounding entrepreneurship, small-medium enterprises, cooperatives, and access to finance as well as financial literacy. More |
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Public policies for the SSE and their role in the Future of Work: The case of Tunisia
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| This paper studies the case of Tunisia, where a draft framework law on SSE has been formulated and supported by a tripartite process with ILO assistance. It explains the overall context and the evolution of the historical and institutional process that has fostered a more favourable policy framework. Moreover, the paper tackles the topic of the role that SSE can play in addressing the challenges around the changing world of work in Tunisia. Available in English and French. |
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ILO COOP 100 Webinar II - Advancing gender equality though cooperatives
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| The webinar was organized as the second edition in a series of webinars around the Centenary of ILO COOP. Four cooperative practitioners reflected on the current situation of gender equality within the cooperative movement, the role cooperatives can play, and the challenges they face in advancing gender equality. Their presentations highlighted the implications of COVID-19 on women in cooperatives and emerging responses. Over 160 people from around the world participated in the webinar. here |
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Call for Photos: ILO COOP Centenary Photo Exhibitions
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| This call invites individuals and organizations to submit photos that illustrate the contributions of cooperatives and the wider SSE to advancing decent work and sustainable development. The photos will be displayed at the ILO COOP 100 Photo Exhibitions to be organized in the second part of 2020. More |
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Call for Papers: ILO COOP Centenary Symposium in November
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| The ILO is calling for papers for the ILO COOP 100 Symposium, scheduled to take place from 16 to 17 November 2020. The Symposium aims to bring together scholars and practitioners working with governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations, as well as cooperatives and the wider SSE. Considering the COVID-19 pandemic, the event may be held in a virtual format. More |
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ILO COOP 100 Interview with Sifa Chiyoge, ICA Africa Regional Director
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| ILO COOP 100 Interview series features past and present ILO colleagues and key partners who have closely engaged with the ILO's work on cooperatives and the wider SSE. For this issue, we interviewed Sifa Chiyoge, the Director of International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) Africa region. She reflected on her years of work on cooperatives, including with governments, higher education institutions, NGOs as well as with the cooperative movement in the region. She shared with us her thoughts on the historical trajectory of cooperatives in Africa, priorities, challenges and prospects in the face of the crises and changes taking place in the world of work. More |
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ILO COOP Chiefs across time: Jean Baptiste Orizet, Chief of ILO COOP from late 1960-1970
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| Mr Orizet was born at St. Etienne, France in 1910. After working at different institutions as an agriculture specialist, he started working at the ILO’s Division of Co-operation and Handicrafts in 1948. In 1956, he was nominated as the Director of the Area Office for the Middle East in Istanbul. During his three years in this position, he contributed to reinforcing the links between the ILO and governments, employers' and workers' organisations in the region. In 1959, he was appointed to establish the first ILO Field Office in Africa located in Lagos. On the basis of this assignment he became a pioneer, in the development of technical co-operation projects in Africa. Upon his return to Geneva at the end of 1960, Mr. Orizet became the Deputy to the Chief of the Division of Co-operatives, Handicrafts and Small Scale Industries. In 1964, through an internal restructuring of the ILO, the Co-operative, Rural and Related Institutions Branch was established of which Mr. J.B. Orizet was the first Chief until his retirement in January 1970. More |
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| Other noteworthy resources |
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UNTFSSE: Resource page on SSE responses to COVID-19
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| As an effort to systematize information sharing and dissemination, this page lists information materials from members and observers of the UNTFSSE, including the ILO, UNDESA, UNRISD, Social Economy Europe, RIPESS, and Euclid Network. More |
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ICA: World Cooperative Congress postponed
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| Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 33rd World Cooperative Congress has been postponed to the 1st to 3rd of March 2021. The event will still be held in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The preparatory events, namely the ICA Cooperative Research Conference and the International Cooperative Law Forum, will take place between the 26th and 28th of February. More |
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| events (Please check event websites for the latest updates/changes due to COVID-19) |
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This newsletter is part of the ILO publications and subject to its disclaimer.
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