Resources on cooperative, social and solidarity economy
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ILO presents on women’s cooperatives at a side event during the 60th session of the UN Committee on Social Development (CSD)
28 February 2022
ILO COOP Manager provided a keynote message at a side event on February 11, 2022.
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12th Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy - Elective 2: Towards an inclusive and gender-transformative SSE: a thinking lab
21 January 2022
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ILO COOP/SSE participates in two parallel events at CSW65
23 March 2021
ILO COOP/SSE Manager presented at two parallel events during the 65th session of the UN Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) that took place between March 15-26.
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ILO COOP/SSE presents cooperatives as an enterprise model for transgender communities in Indonesia
19 March 2021
Representatives from ILO COOP/SSE presented the potential of cooperative model for empowering the transgender community in Indonesia
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The ILO Participates in a session on Gender and the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) at the GSEF Global Virtual Forum
27 October 2020
Representatives from ILO COOP and ILO Pretoria participated and presented at a session on women in SSE institutions that took place on October 20 as part of the GSEF Global Virtual Forum
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Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality
09 February 2017
ILO’s work on cooperatives and women’s empowerment and gender equality spans across many years and includes policy, research and training activities in order to ensure women’s fuller participation in the functioning and governance of cooperatives, providing opportunities for employment and career advancement for women workers, and enabling access for women members to cooperative resources and services such as education and training, financial services, and child care.
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Women’s Entrepreneurship Development
01 March 2016
The ILO approach to Women’s Entrepreneurship Development - Sustainable Enterprises
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ILO COOP Resources on Cooperatives and Women’s Employment and Entrepreneurship
16 October 2015
The adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action at the Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995 laid the foundation for action towards gender equality in all aspects of economic, social, cultural and political life. As women’s empowerment and gender equality emerges as a goal of the sustainable development agenda, organizational and entrepreneurial models that are egalitarian and build on principles of democratic participation are needed.