List/Grid Monthly Archives: November 2011
In Kenya, working hand in hand with the ILO to create cooperatives and jobs
Cooperatives provide some 100 million jobs around the world. Many of these jobs provide for basic human needs, such as the dairy farms of Kenya. Today, some 13,000 cooperatives in…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Co-operative League IYC Theme Song Contest
As part of the celebrations to mark the historic UN designated International Year of Cooperatives (IYC) 2012, 28 talented artists performed in the St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) Co-operative…
Dame Pauline Green to chair UN Advisory Group for International Year of Cooperatives
Group of twenty co-operative leaders to provide guidance in achieving goals of Year. Dame Pauline Green, president of the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA), is to chair the United Nations Advisory…
Mexican President pledges his support to the co-operative movement
Mexican President pledges his support to the co-operative movement and tells the General Assembly that Mexico will actively participate in the International Year The President of the United States of…
ICA’s CoopArt Competition launched
The Coop’Art competition, which invites young people to express themselves co-operatively, is officially launched at the ICA’s General Assembly. A global artistic competition designed to encourage youth to creatively express their…
United Nations launches 2012 International Year of Cooperatives
Cooperatives — member-driven business enterprises that put people front and centre — offered a viable and vibrant alternative economic model, General Assembly delegates said this afternoon, as the United Nations…
Development co-operative launches $50m fund for developing nations
Co-operatives have launched an initiative to raise $50 million (US) to help finance co-operatives in developing countries. Following the launch of the International Year of Co-operatives at the United Nations…
What is a Cooperative?
There are seven Principles that define co-ops as part of their Statement on the Co-operative Identity. 1st Principle: Voluntary and Open Membership Cooperatives are voluntary organizations, open to all persons able to use…
