Resources on cooperative, social and solidarity economy

  1. Raising awareness on the cooperative model among coffee farmers in Lao PDR

    28 November 2023

    Facilitators were trained on the cooperative model including its principles, values, structure, function and related legislation and policies to then train 400 coffee producers in villages of Dak Cheung district in Lao PDR.

  2. First training of trainers’ workshop on Think.Coop and Start.Coop for the aquaculture sector held in Lima

    01 September 2023

    The ILO and UNIDO organized a regional training of trainers’ workshop on the adaptation of ILO’s Think.Coop and Start.Coop tools to the aquaculture sector in the ILO Office in Lima, Peru, on 21-25 August, 2023.

  3. Shadia and Sahar: How decent work has changed their lives in Jordan

    01 May 2023

    An almost three-year ILO intervention across six cooperatives in Jordan has brought about tangible changes to the lives of thousands Jordanian and Syrian refugee agricultural workers in Jordan. Listen to the words of Shadia and Sahar on the matter.

  4. Building local farmer and cooperative groups’ capacity for sustainable cooperative development in Laos

    28 April 2023

    The ILO organized a Think.COOP training programme in Paksong, Champasack province, Lao PDR for tea and coffee farmer groups and staff from Attapeu Department of Industry and Commerce.

  5. Think.Coop and Start.Coop adaptations to the groundnut supply chain, developed by ILO PROSPECTS in Sudan, are available in Arabic now

    06 April 2023

  6. The ILO is undertaking a training of facilitators workshop on Think.Coop adaptation for Refugees and Host Communities in Sudan

    06 April 2023

    The three day workshop is taking place in Khartoum on 21-23 April in partnership with Hope and Friendship for Development Organization (HOPE).

  7. My.COOP - Managing your agricultural cooperative: Training of Trainers, 9 October - 31 December 2023

    My.COOP is a training package and programme on the management of agricultural cooperatives.

  8. ILO organizes Our.COOP orientation to support cooperatives development among coffee farmers in Laos

    02 March 2023

    The ILO held an orientation session on the Our.COOP training programme for coffee farmers’ representatives in Champasak, Laos, to encourage the advancement of cooperatives in Laos’ coffee growing regions.

  9. We are earning an income, navigating a crisis and coming together as a farming community

    08 February 2023

    As Sri Lanka faces its worst economic crisis, people with existing vulnerabilities have been pushed further into poverty, unemployment, and food insecurity. With ILO support, vulnerable members of farming communities in the country’s northern province are earning an income by completing irrigation, flooding, and farmland access related maintenance work in their lands.

  10. Younis Sbeih, National Project Officer on Cooperatives for the Cooperative Support Programme (CSP), ILO Ramallah

    01 February 2023

    COOP Champions features ILO colleagues from around the world working on cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy enterprises. It highlights their contributions, and shares highlights of their experiences, current work, and future aspirations.