The International Labour Organisation (ILO) published on their website a new summary of the report “Advancing cooperation among women workers in the informal economy: The SEWA way” which aims to provide an understanding of the challenges and opportunities for cooperatives and other SSE enterprises in empowering women workers in the informal economy with a specific focus on the experience of Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA).
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IHCO, the International Health Cooperative Organisation, published its “Cooperative Health Report 2018” with EURICSE, the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises. The report unveils what is the contribution of cooperatives to the global health and why cooperatives are well-equipped with competitive advantages for the health sector.
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“The question of the future of work is above all a question of power and ownership. It is a question the cooperative movement seeks practical answers for, every day, in neighbourhoods, cities and regions”. An Opinion by Sion Whellens, Vice-president of CECOP.
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The organization of work and of the production of goods and services is experiencing profound changes that may strongly alter the way in which we work and the future of work itself. In discussing the future of work, it is necessary to differentiate 4 interrelated categories of issues. The present strategic paper review these 4 areas below and provide recommendations structured around the ILO’s concept of Decent Work.
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Platform cooperatives are online businesses jointly-owned and -managed by their members using a protocol, website or mobile application to facilitate the sale of goods and services. Based on cooperative principles and values, they are emerging as viable alternatives to the standard internet business model.
Read MoreThe Asia-Pacific Co-operative Development Conference (APCDC) was organized on the theme Building Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships on Sustainable Development in Colombo (Sri Lanka) from 27-28 Feb 2018. CICOPA was present at the conference aimed to create structured exchange and development partnerships among cooperatives and stakeholders in the pursuit of Sustainable Development.
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The Boards of the two organisations have appointed Diana Dovgan, CECOP – CICOPA Europe’s and CICOPA’s Senior Policy Officer, as Secretary General as of 1st of March, following the departure of the previous Secretary General, Bruno Roelants.
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The Parliament of Uganda recognized the importance of cooperatives as a key actor to attain social economic transformation in the country. A budget for “the revival of cooperatives” should be allocated in 2018/2019.
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CICOPA officially counts this week a new associate member from India. SEWA Federation strives to re-create itself as a professionally-run service provider, equipped to bring low-cost, high quality advisory and business services to poor women in Gujarat State’s cooperative movement.
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In a new study entitled “Sharing Wealth with Those Who Create It”, OXFAM recommends, among other things, encouraging “business models that promote more equitable benefits, including co-ops and employee participation in corporate governance and supply chains. “
Read MoreThe issue of “freelancers” cooperatives in Spain is a controversial one. Partly because the function and objective of worker cooperatives (democratic governance, solidarity, mutual support, cooperativization of work…) are confused with a series of false cooperatives; that only give the possibility for self-employed to invoice, paying less taxes. A legal loophole that is now in question.
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The first major result from the agreement between the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation (CWCF) and la Confédération générale des SCOPs in France, the world leaders in worker co-op business succession, is the new website, www.transfertcoop.com.
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On 15 November, CICOPA, the International Co-operative Alliance’s sectorial organisation for industry and services, has organised in Kuala Lumpur a workshop called “The future of work is ours!”, one of the key actions under the ongoing WE OWN IT! campaign on youth co-operative entrepreneurship.
Read MoreIvey Publishing, of the Richard Ivey School of Business Foundation, is leader in providing business case studies worldwide. The 2017 article and teaching material mention CICOPA several times, can be utilized in group work, training and teaching, and is fun! It highlights issues of growth through diversification and the need for conflict resolution tools in cooperatives in general and worker cooperatives in particular.
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After the first report released in 2015, the CICOPA second global biannual report on industrial and service cooperatives (2015-2016) is out. Based on a new methodology that combines qualitative and quantitative surveys with strengthened internal desk research, it aims to pursue and improve an exercise of reporting the evolution of its network whose very beginning dates back to 2004, as well as to draw an overall picture of the worldwide movement in this sector.
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Employment is one of the most important contributions made by cooperatives throughout the world. Whilst taking into account initiatives and debates at the international level regarding the issues of the future of work and the changing world of work, the present report also aims at updating the 2014 study, “Cooperatives and employment: a Global Report”
Read MoreCICOPA gathers 52 members from 36 countries, who affiliate 65,000 enterprises employing 4 million persons across the world.
CICOPA is a sector organisation of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) since 1947 and has three regional organisations: CECOP (CICOPA Europe), CICOPA Américas, and CICOPA Asia-Pacific.
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The main mission of CICOPA is to promote and represent workers’, social and producers’ cooperatives at the world level.
Read MoreToday, the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) appointed Bruno Roelants as its new Director-General. Mr Roelants, currently Secretary General at CICOPA and CECOP-CICOPA Europe, will begin his new role in the coming weeks.
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In 2004 in the city of Mar del Plata, in the province of Buenos Aires, a program on Domiciliary Care was created, covering the subject of elderly, disabled and chronically ill. Something new for the Argentinian society: to think about the elderly and the representation of old age.
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