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Latest news from the ILO on cooperatives and the social and solidarity economy: July 2020

Cooperatives play an active role in tackling global crises, says ILO Director-General

By adhering to environmental standards and promoting local production, consumer and producer cooperatives can help limit greenhouse gas emissions and sustain supply chains for essential goods and services, says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder, on the occasion of the International Day of Cooperatives 2020 which highlighted climate action as its theme this year. More

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF COOPERATIVES

Cooperatives for Climate Action video - International Day of Cooperatives 2020

The International Day of Cooperatives is celebrated on the first Saturday of July every year. The theme for 2020 was "Cooperatives for Climate Action" which is closely linked to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13. More

ILO COOP 100 Webinar III: Cooperatives for Climate Action

The webinar was organized on the eve of the International Day of Cooperatives (IDC), on 3 July 2020, as the third edition in a series of webinars around the Centenary of ILO’s Cooperatives Unit. In line with the theme of the IDC 2020, Cooperatives for Climate Action, the webinar aimed at sharing experiences of cooperatives in climate mitigation and adaptation and discussing how to tap into their full potential in building greener, more resilient and more sustainable economies. It brought together over 140 participants from around the world. More

COPAC organized an International Day of Cooperatives event on cooperatives and climate action

ILO’s Enterprises Department Director and the current Chair of the Committee on Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC), Mr van Vuuren, participated as a speaker in a virtual event organized on the occasion of the International Day of Cooperatives focusing on climate action on 9 July 2020. More

COVID-19

How cooperatives can help Brazil’s waste pickers build back from COVID-19

This year’s International Day of Cooperatives on 4 July focused on climate action. Waste pickers’ cooperatives in Brazil are examples of how cooperatives can help combat climate change, while facing the challenges thrown up by the COVID-19 pandemic. More

The COVID-19 response video: Cooperatives and other SSE organizations

This video is a shorter (one minute) version of a longer one that was developed to illustrate responses by cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy enterprises to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please see video here. The full version of the video (four minutes) that includes interviews with cooperative practitioners working on the front line is available through here.

MEETINGS

The UNTFSSE virtual event: “What role for the Social and Solidarity Economy in the post COVID-19 crisis recovery?”

The United Nations Inter-agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) organized a virtual event on “What role for the Social and Solidarity Economy in the post COVID-19 crisis recovery?” on 10 July 2020 between 15:30 and 17:00 (CEST). The speakers elaborated upon the transformative role SSE can play, in a pluralist economy – in pursuing the SDGs and highlighted the need to unlock its potential to tackle the current structural economic, societal, social and environmental crises. More

ILO COOP participated and presented on implications of COVID-19 pandemic on gender equality and related responses from cooperatives

The International Cooperative Alliance- Africa Regional Office and We Effect Regional Office for East Africa have organized a webinar on “Implications of Covid-19 Impacts on Gender Equality within the Cooperative Movement” that was held on 23rd July 2020. ILO COOP Manager Simel Esim participated in the event as a presenter. More

ILO COOP contributed a video message to a side event at the HLPF organized by the ICA on resilience of cooperatives in times of crisis

The virtual event on “Cooperatives: A resilient model in time of crisis and beyond” took place on July 16, 2020. The event aimed to highlight how cooperatives contribute toward building resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the reconstruction beyond. It highlighted the role cooperatives play in re-activating local economies, providing assistance to the most vulnerable and advocating for their members with public and private actors. More

ILO COOP participates in a webinar as part of an online training on My.COOP – Managing your agricultural cooperative

The 2020 edition of the online My.COOP training of trainers (ToT) workshop is taking place from 1 June to 7 August, with the participation of 25 people from Africa, Asia and Europe. More

The UN Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) held its 31st regular meeting on July 21, 2020

On 21 July 2020, the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on the Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) organized its 31st regular meeting. The Task Force was established in 2013 with the participation of international organizations as members and social and solidarity economy organizations as observers. More

News from the field

IT for Change hosts a webinar on the potential of cooperatives as a means to organize workers in the platform economy

IT for Change organized a session “Going co-op: A platform model for workers in the South” as part of RightsCon, an annual summit bringing together multidisciplinary actors from technologists, business leaders, and activists to journalists, and academics from all around the world to tackle the most pressing issues of human rights and technology. More

The second Social Economy Fair of Korea held in Daejeon this year

The 2nd Social Economy Fair was held in Daejeon from July 5 to 7 as part of the Korea Social Economy week. More

ILO COOP 100 Feature

Call for Papers: ILO COOP Centenary Symposium

The call invites researchers and practitioners to submit papers for the ILO COOP 100 Symposium to be organized from 16 to 17 November 2020. Submissions should be sent to ILO COOP by 15 August 2020, including an abstract of not more than 100 words and main texts of 2,000 to 2,500 words in English. More

ILO COOP 100 Interviews

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 feature interviews with Haruyushi Amano (International Relations Manager at JCCU), Manuel Marino (PromoCoop President) and Mauro Lusetti (LegaCoop President).

ILO COOP Chiefs across time: Thiecouta Sidibe (1931-2003), Chief of ILO COOP from 1973 to 1980

Thiecouta Sidibe was the seventh ILO COOP Branch Chief who served in this position from 1973 to 1980. A Senegalese national he worked in the ILO Lagos and ILO Yaounde offices before joining ILO COOP. His last position at the ILO was as the Director of the International Labour Standards Department. He retired from the ILO in 1992 after more than 30 years of service. More

other noteworthy resources

Report - CASES Top 100 Cooperatives (2018

“Top 100 Cooperatives – 2018” aims to disclose the most relevant statistical data relating to the top 100 Portuguese cooperatives according to turnover and the top 20 credit cooperatives according to net assets. It also presents top five cooperatives by branch, among which are cooperatives that, following the criteria chosen for the purpose of the report, do not belong to the Top 100 list, but whose presentation allows a concrete view of the diversity and richness of the cooperative landscape in Portugal. More

Information Report from the French Senate on Corporate Social Responsibility

The French Senate’s information report on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that came out on June 25, 2020 highlights the growing awareness across different types and sizes of enterprises in France on their social and environmental responsibilities. The report includes a section on cooperatives, mutuals and other social and solidarity economy (SSE) enterprises. It emphasizes that cooperatives and wider SSE enterprises are often based on mutualism and concerns for the well-being of society. See report in French here.

Staff news

Heejin Ahn

Heejin Ahn joined ILO COOP in July 2020 as a Junior Technical Officer to support the project on Strengthening Social and Solidarity Economy Policy in Asia. More

Mina Waki

Mina Waki, who had joined ILO COOP as a technical officer in April 2017 completed her three year and four-month secondment from JCCU. During her time at ILO COOP she supported the Unit’s work in areas of communication, knowledge generation, and training. She also followed up on the partnership with the Japanese cooperative movement, including through co-organizing the annual ILO-JCCU African Cooperative Leaders’ Study Tour and workshops on cooperative-to-cooperative trade. More

events (Please check event websites for the latest updates/changes due to COVID-19)

31 JULY

	Deadline for submission: Call for papers for International Journal of Co-operative Accounting and Management (IJCAM)

15 AUGUST

	Deadline for submission: ILO COOP 100 Symposium

15 OCTOBER

	International Credit Union Day

20 AUGUST

	Online closing event of CoopStarter 2.0, entitled "Supporting the emergence of a EU-wide dynamic for youth cooperative entrepreneurship

Every Thurs in September and October 1

	The resources of the Social and Solidarity Economy in a context of global mutation - Virtual Mont-Blanc Meetings

The second week of NOVEMBER

	ICA Committee on Cooperative Research Latin American Research Conference, Medellin, Colombia

16-17 NOVEMBER

	ILO COOP 100 Symposium

1-3 MARCH 2021

	ICA World Cooperative Congress, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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