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This year, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will convene a Food Systems Summit as part of the Decade of Action. The Summit will launch bold new actions to deliver progress on all 17 SDGs, each of which relies to some degree on healthier, more…
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Quality Physical Education (QPE) is a physical education approach that is grounded in the equality of opportunity for all students to access a well-balanced and inclusive curriculum. QPE supports the acquisition of psychomotor, social and emotional…
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On 8th of September Cooperatives Europe, as an activity under the ICA-EU Partnership (Coops4dev), released the Coopedia Knowledge Base – a collaborative search engine listing resources (guides, articles, videos, books and more) on…
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As people-centred enterprises and key development actors, cooperatives have a critical role to play in the creation of decent jobs and the social and economic empowerment of communities. On 16 December 1992, the United Nations General Assembly…
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Sustainability is a key principle of the international cooperative movement – from sustainability of local communities to sustainability of our planet, as captured in the internationally-agreed Sustainable Development Goals. In a world of waste and…
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Cooperatives are a powerful economic and social force, present in most countries of the world and in most sectors of the economy. The cooperative movement counts more than a billion members.
Achieving sustainable development means that we will…
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The 62nd United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW62) has included co-operatives in its conclusions on achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls.
Held at the UN headquarters in New York from 12-23…
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The Asia-Pacific Co-operative Development Conference will focus this year on the theme “Building Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships on Sustainable Development.” The conference will take place in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 26 February to 1 March 2018…
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More than 1,800 co-operators are meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for the International Co-operative Alliance’s Global Conference and General Assembly (14- 17 November). Over the next three days co-operators from across the world will examine how…
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On 14 July 2017, The Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC) celebrated the International Day of Cooperatives at the United Nations in New York during the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, the…
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In response to the adoption of the 2030 Agenda in September 2015, the members of the International Co-operative Alliance rallied to show their solidarity and commitment to this new global development policy. The result was Co-ops for…
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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) namely: No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Good Health And Well Being, Quality Education, Gender Equality, Clean Water and Sanitation, Affordable Clean Energy, Decent Work…