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06 July 2023 | Cooperatives
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…
19 April 2023 | Cooperatives
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 …
11 April 2023 | Cooperatives
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…