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| News Highlights for January 2022 |
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| Spotlight Interviews with Cooperators |
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Paul Hazen, Executive Director, U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council
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“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with cooperative and wider social and solidarity economy (SSE) policymakers, researchers and practitioners from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work. On this occasion, the ILO interviewed Paul Hazen, the Executive Director of the U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council. More
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ILO COOP Staff Roberto di Meglio retires
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Roberto di Meglio retires from the ILO after 32 years of service. Mr. di Meglio had been working as a Senior Specialist on local development and social and solidarity economy in ILO’s COOP Unit since 2011. During this period he also collaborated with ITC-Turin in organizing the ILO’s SSE academies. In addition he led research projects on the SSE and was among ILO staff participating in the UN Task Force on SSE. More
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Conclusion Brief: Mapping the Social and Solidarity Economy Landscape in Asia Towards an Enabling Policy Environment
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This conclusion brief is part of the series “Mapping the Social and Solidarity Economy Landscape in Asia” that presents the SSE landscape for six countries in Asia, policy challenges and preliminary pathways for strengthening SSE in the region. The research is part of the ILO project “Strengthening Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) Policy in Asia,” implemented in partnership with the Korea Social Enterprise Promotion Agency (KoSEA) and supported by the Korean Ministry of Employment and Labour (MOEL). More
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Brochure on an ILO initiative on advancing the Guidelines concerning Statistics of Cooperatives in Spanish, French, Italian, Turkish and Korean
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This brochure is introducing the ILO's initiative on the ‘Guidelines concerning Statistics of Cooperatives’ adopted at the 20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) in October 2018 and then approved by the Governing Body of the ILO in March 2019. The guidelines are a first step toward an international norm on statistics of cooperatives. This initiative envisages the evaluation of the information on the methods of collecting, organizing and analyzing statistical data on cooperatives in the light of the guidelines in Italy, Tanzania, Turkey, Costa Rica and Republic of Korea. The brochure is available in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Turkish and Korean. More
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Brochure: Strengthening Social and Solidarity Economy Policy in Asia
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This brochure provides an overview of the second phase of the project “Strengthening Social and Solidarity Economy Policy in Asia” which aims to enhance the understanding on the SSE in Asia and the Pacific region and provide technical support to countries to develop SSE policies and/or mainstream SSE in their policies and programmes. The first phase ended in June 2021, and the second phase has been launched in 2022. More
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Outcome report of ILO-JCA webinar: TSUNAGARU by Social & Solidarity Economy
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The report “Current situation and challenges of Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Japan” provides an overview of the SSE’s development in Japan, including recent movements to promote the SSE, and shares case studies of SSE organizations in action. Commissioned by the ILO, the report was authored by Mr. Kentaro Itami, Professor at the Institute for Solidarity and Society at Hosei University. More
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Policy Recommendations To Support Cooperative Ownership in the Digital Economy
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This report provides a path for the promotion of platform cooperatives, businesses that sell goods or services through a website, mobile app, or protocol. It highlights how platform cooperatives build on their proven business models and rely on democratic decision-making and shared platform ownership by workers and users. It further suggests that platform cooperatives can match workers and customers and return a greater share of income to workers, increase worker protections, and help build communities. More
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Unlocking the potential of Digital and Social Economy in the Western Balkans (More information coming soon!) |
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