News from the field
Free from debt and bonded labour in Sri Lanka’s fisheries
The new ILO impact story on the Local Economic Empowerment and Development (LEED) project in northern Sri Lanka shows how fishermen escaped debt-burdens and bonded labour and improved their livelihoods through cooperatives. >>More
ILO pilots self-learning approach to promote the cooperative business model in Myanmar
ILO conducted a pilot of the Think.Coop training module on cooperative business model in Myanmar, where over 40 participants from rural workers’ trade unions received a basic introduction to cooperation and collective action in addressing common challenges and needs. >>More
Cooperating out of child labour in Malawi
From 14-17 November, a Training of Trainers (ToT) event on using agricultural cooperatives for the elimination of hazardous child labour was held in Malawi. The training was organised within the framework of a project aiming to reduce hazardous child labour in tobacco growing through social dialogue, and as part of a wider approach of the ILO on ways in which cooperatives can tackle the issue of child labour in agriculture. >>More
ILO participation in the 2nd Philippine Cooperative Managers’ Conference
From 24-25 November 2017, ILO Enterprise Development Specialist from ILO office in Manila participated in the 2nd Philippine Cooperative Managers’ Conference organised by the National Capital Region League of the Philippine Federation of Credit Cooperatives (NCRL-PFCCO) in Tagaytay. He presented the potential of cooperatives in creating jobs and responding the challenges raised by recent economic and technological changes in the world of work. >>More
Meeting updates
ILO presents the contribution of cooperative enterprises to the future of work at a side event to the European Social Summit
On 16 November, a conference on the role of the social economy in the future of work was organised by the European Commission, the European Economic and Social Committee, the City of Gothenburg and Västra Götaland Region as a side event to the Social Summit for Fair Jobs and Growth. The ILO delivered an introduction for a panel on “How do cooperatives serve as a model for tomorrow’s work”. >>More
Reflections on the role of SSE in job creation in Southern Neighbourhood Countries of the EU
An ILO representative presented good practices in job creation through the social and solidarity economy, in a panel of the Multi-Country Workshop on Social Economy and Social Enterprise organised by the Technical Assistance and Information Exchange (TAIEX) of the European Commission in Brussels on 14-15 November. >>More
The 2017 ITC ILO Gender Academy includes courses touching on cooperatives
The 2017 edition of the Gender Academy organized by the International Training Centre of the ILO in Turin included both an elective and a master course that touched upon the role of cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy organizations in advancing women’s empowerment and gender equality among waste pickers. >>More
Exploring the potential of cooperatives in advancing universal health coverage
On 10 November, as part of an initiative on research “Exploring the potential of cooperatives to advance Universal Health Coverage and Sustainable Development Goals in Cameroon and Kenya”, a working session was organized at the ILO Headquarters in Geneva to review the draft report and discuss next steps. >>More
COOP Champions
Sandra Yu, ILO DWT Bangkok
COOP Champions features ILO colleagues from around the world working on cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy enterprises. In this issue, we showcase Sandra Yu from ILO DWT in Bangkok who has worked on cooperatives in the Asia and the Pacific region for local economic development, rural employment and formalization of the informal economy. >>More
Spotlight interviews with co-operators
JWCU: Contributing to job creation and local community development through associated work
"Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators" is a series of interviews with cooperative leaders from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work with cooperatives. For this issue, the ILO interviewed Mr Osamu Nakano, a board member and Chief of International Relations Unit of Japan Workers’ Co-operative Union (JWCU). >>More
New ILO publications on cooperatives
Use of statistics on cooperatives in national policy making
This report, prepared by Dr. Johnston Birchall, is the latest addition to the work in advancing understanding on statistics on cooperatives and their use in national policy documents and processes. The report focuses on the user perspective, looking to the ways in which these statistics on cooperatives are used in the eight countries. It provides a view of the different ways in which statistics on cooperatives can be used at the country level by different types of users. >>Read the full report here
Korean version of the Future of Work Issue Note No.6
ILO’s Future of Work Issue Note on cooperative model responses to technological, demographic, economic and environmental changes within the world of the work is now also available in Korean. >>Check it out here
Global Employment Trends for Youth 2017: Paths to a better working future
The 2017 edition of Global Employment Trends for Youth discusses the implications of technological change for youth labour market prospects focusing on trends in spectral employment and on the forms of work available to young people. It highlights the role of cooperatives in youth entrepreneurship development and ILO’s current works on youth employment through cooperatives and other social economy enterprises. >>Read the full report here
Noteworthy resources
Cooperatives Europe vision paper: “A cooperative vision for the collaborative economy”
Cooperatives Europe released its vision paper titled “A cooperative vision for the collaborative economy”. It calls for a larger scale public-private partnership between the cooperative movement and the European institutions to build a more supportive environment for community-based and democratic organizations allowing the collaborative economy to unleash its full potential. >>More↗
New book by Ed Mayo, Secretary General of Co-operatives UK: “A short history of co-operation and mutuality”
This book brings together the origins of co-operation across the world, covering a range of issues from the Commons and lending circles to labour societies. >>The full book is free to download here↗
ILO COOP staff news
Mr Young Hyun Kim joined ILO COOP on 1st of November 2017 as a technical officer seconded from the Government of the Republic of Korea. Ms Vasiliki Kanaki completed her six-month internship with ILO COOP in October. >>More
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