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Italy-ILO cooperation to support Palestinian cooperatives
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| The ILO has launched a new programme to develop Palestinian cooperatives and social entrepreneurship in order to boost sustainable development in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). The Cooperative Support Programme is a component of the 3-year Programme “Be the Impact”, funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation with the aim to strengthen the Palestinian cooperative sector as well as to consolidate the core principles of social entrepreneurship. More |
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Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators
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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, the ILO COOP Unit staff interviewed Leandro Monk, President of Argentine Federation of Technology, Innovation and Knowledge Work Cooperatives (FACTTIC). More |
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Cooperatives in Focus: Select Articles on Cooperatives from the International Labour Review
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| While ILO Cooperatives Unit (COOP) marks its centenary this year, the International Labour Review (ILR), a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal of international scope in labour and employment studies, will be celebrating its centenary next year. Across the years, a number of articles on cooperatives were featured in the issues of the ILR. Here are a selection of ILR articles on cooperatives between 1920s and the 1980s. More |
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ILO COOP 100 Photo Exhibit I: Cooperatives provide quality care services
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| As part of the ILO COOP 100 photo exhibitions, the ILO is featuring the contributions of cooperatives and the wider SSE to advancing decent work and sustainable development. This series of photos feature the contribution of cooperatives and the wider SSE in providing quality care services, from childcare and eldercare to care for persons living with disability or illness. More |
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ILO COOP Chiefs across time: Joseph Ciro Fazzio, Chief of ILO COOP from 1992 to 2000
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| Joseph Ciro Fazzio was the ninth ILO COOP Branch Chief. He served in this position from 1992 until his retirement in 2000. A US national born in 1940, he started working in the ILO at COOP in Geneva before taking on a series of field appointments, in ILO Port of Spain, Lagos, and Dhaka offices before rejoining COOP in Geneva in 1987. He lives in Germany with his wife Gabriele Ullrich who also worked in ILO COOP. More |
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The story of a friendship: Juan Somavia and Ivano Barberini
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| Juan Somavia was the ILO’s 9th Director-General from 1999 to 2012. Ivano Barberini was the President of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) until 2009. In 2001, the International Labour Conference discussed an item on the “Promotion of Cooperatives” which led to the adoption of ILO Recommendation 193, in 2002 under the same title. After attending the ICA General Assembly in Oslo together a year later, Juan and Ivano signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and a “Common Cooperative Agenda” in 2004, the first of its kind since the establishment of the two organizations. More |
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| other noteworthy resources |
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Survey Report from Cooperatives Europe: COVID-19 crisis and its economic and social impact on cooperatives
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| The survey report collected views and experiences from cooperative enterprises active in the European region, and neighbourhood countries, and national members apex organisations, representing all together close to 90 per cent of the cooperative movement in Europe across various sectors of economic activity. The three parts of the report include: (i) the social and economic impact of the COVID-19 on cooperatives’ business activities, turnover and workforce; (ii) the most needed support measures to help them face the crisis; and (iii) considering the specific structure of the cooperative business model, how cooperative enterprises are coping with the crisis. More |
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FAO framework on ending child labour in agriculture
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| This framework on ending child labour in agriculture notes that FAO can collaborate with relevant partners such as the ILO to build capacity of extension agents on risk assessment methodologies to identify existing hazards, feasible alternatives and mitigation strategies, and to raise awareness on child labour among agricultural stakeholders (local forestry stakeholders, including producers, cooperatives and workers), supporting their participation in local child labour monitoring systems. More |
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Statistics Portugal launches the Social Economy Sector Survey
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| Statistics Portugal launched the most recent study about the social economy sector in Portugal in collaboration with Cooperative António Sérgio for the Social Economy (CASES). This report constitutes the second half of results from the survey carried out in 2019. It shows information regarding the characteristic of the sector, in terms of activities, internal composition, volunteer work, financing structure, social responsibility initiatives and relations with public and private sector entities. The report can be accessed here. |
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Every Thurs in September and October
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Strengthening SSE policy in Asia Capacity Building Workshop (tentative dates) |
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ICA World Cooperative Congress, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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This newsletter is part of the ILO publications and subject to its disclaimer.
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