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| Advancing guidelines for statistics on cooperatives |
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| The Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC) Technical Working Group (TWG) on Statistics of Cooperatives held its second meeting in Geneva to advance the guidelines to be presented and discussed at the 20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) in October 2018. More |
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| Ongoing initiatives and meeting updates |
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| ILO calls for job creation at 2nd Cooperative Congress in Nepal |
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| The 2nd Cooperative Congress in Nepal brought together over 1,000 delegates from 22 countries to discuss the role of cooperatives in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Two representatives from ILO Nepal participated in the event and called for joint efforts to advance cooperatives’ contributions to productivity and job creation. More |
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| COPAC board members meet to discuss its work plan for 2018-2020 |
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| COPAC board members met at its 77th Annual Board Meeting in Geneva to discuss its strategy and work plan, including statistics on cooperatives and activities around the 2018 International Day of Cooperatives to be linked with the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), among others. More |
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| New ILO publications and other noteworthy resources |
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| L'experience de la cooperative des Tanneuses de Guediawaye Daka - Senegal |
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| Ce document de travail retrace l’expérience menée par les tanneuses de Guédiawaye, dans la banlieue de Dakar. Subissant des discriminations multiples dues à leur sexe, leur caste, leur métier et leur pauvreté, elles ont décidé de s’organiser pour formaliser leurs petites unités économiques et améliorer leurs conditions de vie et de travail. More |
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| The Spanish Strategy of the Social Economy 2017-2020 |
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| The Spanish Strategy of the Social Economy 2017-2020 was published on 20 March 2018 (available here in Spanish only). According to the adopted Agreement, the strategy "responds to the need to take into account and promote the specificities of social economy enterprises and organizations in the single market, as well as to include and support social economy enterprises and organizations through programmes, projects and funds, and in the innovative and sustainable development of an adequate financial ecosystem". The strategy includes promoting participation of Spain in the next ILO SSE Academy to be organized in Spain in the second half of 2018. More information will be available at the Academy's website in due time. |
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| The Canadian government’s plan to strengthen the cooperative sector |
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| The Government of Canada unveiled a plan to strengthen the cooperative sector which focuses on three key areas: accessing federal programmes and services; raising awareness of the cooperative business model among Canadians and relevant federal departments; and modernizing the cooperative sector data. More |
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Waltteri Katajamaki left ILO COOP to take up a position at ILO SECTOR and Andrea Davila joined ILO COOP from ILO FUNDAMENTALS. More |
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