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| Think.Coop introduced nationally for Cambodian agriculture cooperatives |
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| In cooperation with the Department of Agricultural Cooperative Promotion, the ILO organized a national consultation workshop on Think.Coop in Phnom Penh with 110 participants from Cambodia’s 25 provinces and a municipality. The participants appreciated the tool’s peer-to-peer, activity-based learning methodology. |
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| News from the field & ongoing initiatives |
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| Sri Lankan women making waves in local industry |
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| With determination, “detergent” and the support of the ILO project on promoting local empowerment through economic development in Sri Lanka, a group of women-headed households have formed a cooperative and gained social and economic power. More |
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| ILO’s new tools launched in Bolivia to promote cooperativism |
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| The ILO launched its most recent tools on cooperatives, Think.Coop and Start.Coop, in La Paz. Local authorities and specialists from socials organizations were trained on the peer-to-peer learning methodology with a view to providing better job opportunities for rural and informal economy workers through cooperatives. More |
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| The first roll-out of My.Coop in the Northern Province of Zambia |
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| In Zambia, efforts are being made to revitalize cooperatives as autonomous and sustainable enterprises that can contribute to the country’s socio-economic development. As parts of these efforts, My.Coop – Managing your agricultural cooperative training package was translated into Bemba and rolled out for the first time in the Northern Province of Zambia. More |
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| Meeting updates and spotlight interviews |
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| ILO’s participation in the WIEGO General Assembly |
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| ILO COOP participated in the 7th General Assembly of Women in Informal Economy: Globalizing Organizing (WIEGO) that took place in Johannesburg, South Africa. Several joint action points were identified between ILO COOP and WIEGO programmes, including on: research, training and collaboration around ongoing initiatives with waste pickers’ and domestic workers’ cooperatives. More |
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| Spotlight interview: The Social Cooperative Education and Promotion Train in Turkey |
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| “Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with cooperators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and social and solidarity economy (SSE). On this occasion, ILO interviewed Ms Rabia Gökçen Mert Korkmaz, Expert at the Ministry of Trade, on the Social Cooperative Education and Promotion Train in Turkey. More |
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| New ILO publications and other noteworthy resources |
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| Lessons Learned and Emerging Good Practices of ILO’s Syria Crisis Response in Jordan and Lebanon |
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| The report synthesizes the lessons learned and emerging good practices from the interventions of the ILO Regional Office for Arab States to promote decent work amongst Syrian refugees and host communities. Facilitation of the issuance of work permits for Syrian workers through cooperatives in the agriculture sector and through trade unions in the construction sector are showcased among the innovative approaches devised. More |
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| Call for abstracts: 6th Regulating for Decent Work Conference, 8-10 July 2019 |
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| The deadline for submission of abstracts around the 6th Regulating for Decent Work Conference that is focused on “Work and well-being in the 21st Century” is approaching. The conference will take place from 8 to 10 July 2019. Researchers and practitioners on cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy enterprises are encouraged to submit abstracts for the Track IV “Building and renewing institutions: A social contract for the 21st century”. More |
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ILO and ICA joint meeting on Cooperatives and the Future of Work, International Labour Organization, Geneva, Switzerland |
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Valentina Verze joined ILO COOP in 2018 as a Junior Professional Officer on Social and Solidarity Economy and the Future of Work. More |
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http://ilo.msgfocus.com/u/1b7PffU0uZs7kzvBWSGd
