ILO COOP conducted an orientation session on cooperatives with 24 indigenous women entrepreneurs, as part of the “Project-based Training and Mentoring Programme on Intellectual Property for Women Entrepreneurs from Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities” by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). More

ILO COOP contributed to the 2019 edition of the Gender Academy through a panel presentation on the potential of cooperatives in ensuring gender equality in climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts and an orientation session on cooperatives based on the ILO’s Think.Coop training tool. More

ILO COOP contributed to the ITC-ILO course on “Promoting green jobs and business opportunities in the waste sector” with a session on the role of cooperative business model in promoting social inclusion in waste management. More

Members and observers of the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) met in Trento to discuss key issues and priorities, including a possible UN Resolution on the SSE. here.

Officials of the ILO participated in a workshop on SSE statistics in Brussels to present the Guidelines concerning Statistics of Cooperatives, which were adopted during the 20th ICLS in 2018 and approved at ILO GB in March 2019. More

An ILO official participated in the conference and presented on the key trends and challenges in the world of work and possible response strategies that could be provided through cooperative enterprises. More

Young European Co-operators Network (YECN) held a Local Workshop in Izmir to kick-start the local network in Turkey and discuss cooperation plans for 2020. ILO COOP Unit Manager sent a video message to the event underlining the relevance of the cooperative business model for youth employment. More

This report presents the results from the “Financial Mechanisms for Innovative Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems” research project that was designed to foster a better understanding of the different ways in which financial resources can be made available and accessed to support the growth of social and solidarity economy (SSE) organizations and their ecosystems. The report looks at the evidence from eight countries: Canada (Quebec), Cape Verde, Colombia, Ecuador, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, and the Republic of Korea. The full report is available in English. The executive summary is available in English, French, Spanish, and Italian.

The Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) launched a new book on the meaning of the future of work for workers in the Global South. The book, a compilation of original studies commissioned by SEWA, suggests that informality is likely to remain the norm in the predictable future in India. The compilation also brings together reflections from some of the Commissioners of the Global Commission on the Future of Work. Underlining the importance of organizing the unorganized especially among producers and workers in the lower rungs of global supply chains, such as home workers, the book provides examples of cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy enterprises where the workers are themselves the producers, owners, shareholders, and managers of their own labour.  More