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© RCO Madagascar A woman waters her vegetable garden, planted with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization.
06 July 2023 | Cooperatives

From seeds to solar power in Madagascar: A UN Resident Coordinator blog

Over one million people in drought-stricken southern Madagascar are benefitting from a range of complementary UN development initiatives which are being coordinated in order to have a greater impact as the UN Resident Coordinator in Madagascar Issa…
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19 April 2023 | Cooperatives

New UN resolution on social and solidarity economy

Historic Moment for the SSE: At its 66th plenary meeting, the UN General Assembly adopts the resolution “Promoting the Social and Solidarity Economy for Sustainable Development”   At its 66th plenary meeting on April 18, 2023, the United Nations …
© Ovimbundu Filmes | Project participants learn to install a modern beehive in Bailundo, Angola.
11 April 2023 | Cooperatives

Angola: Empowering women through honey

An UNCTAD project is harnessing the power of bees to help women improve their livelihoods while creating sustainable opportunities in rural communities in the southern African nation. Mavilde de Assunção Alves has been a beekeeper for almost 15…
26 October 2021 | Cooperatives

Social Economy in Cooperation

The eleventh edition of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Social Economy Forum 2021 started with an online event on 19th October. It counted with speakers from the region of Veneto in Italy, the Division for Social Inclusion Development in the Department of…
08 March 2021 | Cooperatives

2021 Food Systems Summit

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…
10 February 2021 | Cooperatives

UNESCO Quality Physical Education

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…
15 September 2020 | Cooperatives

Coopedia Knowledge Base launched

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 cooperative…
15 July 2019 | Cooperatives

COOPS 4 DECENT WORK

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…
09 July 2018 | Cooperatives

Sustainable Societies through Cooperation

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…
22 June 2018 | Cooperatives

How cooperatives contribute to sustainable consumption and production

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…
09 April 2018 | Cooperatives

Empowering rural women through co-operatives

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 March, it…
23 February 2018 | Cooperatives

Cooperatives: Building multi-stakeholder partnerships on sustainable development

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. It…

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