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Latest news from the ILO on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy: April 2021
 
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ILO organizes awareness raising session on the Promotion of Cooperatives Recommendation, 2002 (No. 193)
 
Members of the Steering Committee overseeing the development of a national strategy for the cooperative movement in Jordan and representatives from the Ministry of Economy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) participated in an awareness-raising session on Promotion of Cooperatives Recommendation, 2002 (No. 193) on April 8, 2021.
 
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News Highlights for April 2021
 
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ILO’s Cooperatives Unit and Social Finance Programme co-organize an elective session at the Rural development academy 2021
 
The ILO’s Cooperatives Unit and Social Finance Programme co-organized an elective on “Sustainable Finance and Cooperatives in Rural Areas” to highlight the role of cooperatives in the rural economy and access to financial services through a range of traditional and emerging financial service providers. More
 
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UNTFSSE participates in the relaunch of the Pact for Impact Alliance
 
The Chair of the UNTFSSE and Director of the Enterprises Department, Mr. Vic Van Vuuren, participated in the re-launch of the Pact for Impact Alliance virtually held on April 15, 2021. More
 
 
ILO COOP Champion April 2021
 
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Amaal Bani Awwad, National Project Coordinator at ILO Jordan
 
COOP Champions features ILO colleagues from around the world working on cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy enterprises. It highlights their contributions, and shares highlights of their experiences, current work, and future aspirations. For April 2021, we feature our colleague Amaal Bani Awwad who is a National Project Coordinator under the PROSPECTS project at ILO Jordan. More
 
 
ILO COOP Staff News for April 2021
 
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Dong Il Choi joins ILO COOP as Cooperatives and Social & Solidarity Economy (SSE) Development Specialist
 
Dong Il is seconded to the ILO from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MOEF) of South Korea where he had worked for 15 years. During this time he also worked at the Policy Coordination Bureau of MOEF, which includes a division on Cooperatives and Social Economy, for five years.  More
 
 
Noteworthy Resources
 
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Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina
 
This volume focuses on the emergence and consolidation of Argentina’s empresas recuperadas por sus trabajadores (ERTs, worker-recuperated enterprises) that surged at the turn-of-the-millennium during the country’s financial crisis. Since then, around 400 companies have been converted to cooperatives by almost 16,000 workers. Using the voices of the movement’s protagonists, the book develops a social theory of  workers’ self-management. More
 
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General observation on the application of the Employment Policy Convention, 1964 (No. 122)
 
Adopted by the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) at its 91st session (Nov-Dec. 2020), the general observation includes a section on promoting sustainable enterprises as drivers of productive employment and decent work where cooperatives and wider social and solidarity economy are mentioned. More
 
 
Events (Please check event websites for the latest updates/changes)
 
12 MAY 2021
European Social Innovation Competition 2021
 
26-27 MAY 2021
European Social Economy Summit
 
26 MAY-1 JUNE 2021
5th World Forum of Local Economic Development
 
31 MAY 2021
 
2-4 JUNE 2021
 
22-24 JUNE 2021
 
3 JULY 2021
International Day of Cooperatives
 
7 JULY 2021
ICA CCR Europe Research Conference
 
8-10 SEPTEMBER 2021
8th CIRIEC International Research Conference on Social Economy, San José, Costa Rica
 
4-8 OCTOBER 2021
5th Global Social Economy Forum GSEF2021 Mexico City
 
1-3 DECEMBER 2021
ICA World Cooperative Congress, Seoul, Republic of Korea
 
 
 
 
 
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