Resources on cooperative, social and solidarity economy

  1. Interview with Orkun Doğan, Economist and Researcher/Partner at Yerkure Local Studies Cooperative and Dissensus Research

    17 August 2023

    “Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE). On this occasion, the ILO interviewed Orkun Doğan, Economist and Researcher/Partner at Yerkure Local Studies Cooperative and Dissensus Research.

  2. ILO COOP/SSE participates to the CIRIEC conference on Social Economy

    21 July 2023

    The 9th CIRIEC International Research Conference on Social Economy, with the theme "Building Forward Better: Social and Solidarity Economy for a Peaceful and Fair World," was successfully held in Seoul, Korea, from July 4 to 6, 2023.

  3. ILO visited iCOOP’s Natural Dream Park in Korea

    20 July 2023

    Following the International Conference on Statistics of Cooperatives, held on 30 June in Busan, participants were invited to a study trip at iCOOP’s Natural Dream Park in Goesan, Korea between 1-2 July 2023.

  4. Improved statistics will strengthen global cooperative movement

    30 June 2023

    An international conference has explored ways that more robust and consistent statistical measures can shape better policies and interventions for cooperatives and help their contribution to sustainable development be properly recognized.

  5. Initiative on advancing the Guidelines concerning Statistics of Cooperatives

    29 May 2023

    The project aims to ensure statistics on cooperatives are reliable, coherent, and internationally comparable, in order to quantify economic and social impact of cooperatives. It is a step towards implementing the international Guidelines concerning Statistics of Cooperatives. It includes country case studies on Costa Rica, Italy, Republic of Korea, Türkiye, and Tanzania.

  6. The global advisory committee of the ILO initiative on cooperative statistics holds its 4th meeting

    10 May 2023

    National researchers from Italy, Türkiye, Costa Rica and Tanzania presented their analyses on the available and potential sources of data on cooperatives in their countries. They also provided comparisons and recommendations on the international guidelines concerning statistics of cooperatives. Discussions were held on the follow up steps, including the development of a manual on statistics of cooperatives.

  7. Three women, three countries, one dream: A happy future…

    27 April 2023

  8. International Conference on Statistics of Cooperative – Measuring Cooperatives and Beyond

    The ILO will host an international conference on statistics of cooperatives, as part of the cooperative statistics component of the Strengthening Social and Solidarity Economy Knowledge Base project.

  9. The global advisory committee of the ILO initiative on cooperative statistics holds its 3rd meeting

    21 February 2023

    National researchers from Italy, Türkiye, Korea, Costa Rica and Tanzania have presented an analysis of the statistics in their countries on cooperatives. They also provided comparisons to the international guidelines concerning statistics of cooperatives.

  10. The global advisory committee of the ILO’s initiative on statistics of cooperatives holds its 2nd meeting

    25 November 2022

    Five national researchers made presentations comparing their national contexts with the ILO’s guidelines concerning statistics of cooperatives at the 2nd meeting of the global advisory committee (GAC) of the ILO initiative on implementing the guidelines, held on November 15, 2022.