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March 2018
 
 
 
Focus on International Women's Day
 
On the occasion of the International Women's Day on March 8th, we share ILO's latest work and activities on women empowerment through cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy (SSE) enterprises.
 
Role of cooperatives in rural women empowerment discussed during a side event at CSW62 with ILO participating for COPAC
 
The Permanent Mission of the Dominican Republic to the United Nations in New York organized a side event at the 62nd Session of the Commission on the Status of Women with a specific focus on cooperatives’ contributions to rural women empowerment. More
 
ILO joins the conversation on women empowerment through cooperatives, an Italian perspective
 
ILO joins event on women empowerment through cooperatives organized by the Italian Confederation of Cooperatives (ConfCooperative) and CooperMondo. More
 
Promoting women’s cooperatives in Turkey
 
ILO interviewed Ms Şengül Akçar, Executive Director of the Foundation for the Support of Women’s Work (FSWW) on their support for establishing and strengthening a women’s cooperative network in Turkey. More
 
COPAC issues a brief on SDG 5
 
A new COPAC brief on cooperatives' contributions to SDG 5 (gender equality) is out, as part of COPAC's "A Cooperative 2030" series, which will cover all 17 SDGs. More
 
Advancing cooperation among women workers in the informal economy: The SEWA way
 
ILO published a summary report on the empowerment of women workers in the informal economy through cooperatives and other SSE enterprises, with a specific focus on Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) approach in India. The full report is coming out shortly. More
 
 
Other updates
 
 
ILO sponsors training on agricultural cooperative management through My.Coop distance learning programme
 
The participants of 2017 My.Coop distance learning programme sponsored by the ILO share their perceptions of the training and future plans to use My.Coop in their countries. More
 
A step taken toward a common social cooperative framework in Turkey
 
An ILO representative joined a conference organized by Cooperatives General Directorate of the Ministry of Customs and Trade in Turkey to discuss key issues toward creating a common framework for emerging social cooperatives in Turkey. More
 
Promoting cooperatives through a global multi-stakeholder partnership
 
For this issue of the eNews Update, ILO interviewed COPAC Coordinator Ms Fran McCrae on the evolution and development of the global multi-stakeholder partnership and its current initiatives including in statistics of cooperatives and global policy dialogues. More
 
Noteworthy resources and news
 
 
Euricse/IHCO joint publication on healthcare cooperatives
 
Euricse and International Health Co-operative Organization (IHCO) jointly published “Cooperative Health Report 2018”, aimed at providing both quantitative and qualitative analyses of healthcare cooperatives and mutual organizations as well as the systems in which they operate. It identifies the main trends and challenges in the current transformation of health care systems, then studies different cases from countries including Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. More
 
 
Global report on trade union and cooperative innovations for precarious workers
 
Co-operatives UK and Co-operative College released a report on innovative collaborations between trade unions and cooperatives in overcoming the problems of precarious employment in the UK and around the world. More
 
 
CICOPA’s strategic paper on the Future of Work
 
CICOPA published a strategic paper on cooperative responses to the challenges in the changing world of work. CICOPA shared this report with the ILO as feedback on the Inception Report for the Global Commission on the Future of Work. More
 
 
CALENDAR
 
4 - 6 APRIL
77th Annual COPAC Board Meeting and 2nd Meeting of the TWG on Statistics on Cooperatives, Geneva
 
20 APRIL
Deadline for UNRISD call for papers for the International Conference on overcoming inequalities in a fractured world
 
29 APRIL - 1 MAY
International Co-operative Conference on the changing world of work, Kerala, India
 
28 MAY - 8 JUNE
107th Session of the International Labour Conference, Geneva
 
4 - 6 JULY
ICA European Research Conference, Wageningen, The Netherlands
 
7 JULY
International Day of Co-operatives
 
26 - 28 SEPTEMBER
2nd International Forum on Cooperative Law, Athens
 
28 - 29 SEPTEMBER
Repurposing the sharing economy: Platform cooperatives as the remedy, Hong Kong
 
1 - 3 OCTOBER
Global Social Economy Forum 2018, Bilbao, Spain
 
10 - 19 OCTOBER
20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians, Geneva
 
8 - 9 NOVEMBER
UNRISD International Conference on overcoming inequalities in a fractured world, Geneva
 
 
                                                           
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