Uno de los dos líderes visionarios que junto con 27 médicos se unieron para conjugar propósitos y voluntades y fundaron el 4 de marzo de 1.964 la Cooperativa Médica del Valle y de profesionales de Colombia. Médico, especialista en Pediatría, tocado por el espíritu del cooperativismo, ha sido su maestro en diferentes espacios, dentro y […]
A Cooperative Leader in the Philippines
Antonio Cecilio ” Fr. Anton” Tuason Pascual A Cooperative Leader in the Philippines 30 years of humanitarian, servant leadership, and stewardship excellence in the fields of social development and cooperative social enterprise is how best to summarize his accomplishments. Rev. Fr. Antonio Cecilio Tuason Pascual more popularly known as Fr. Anton was ordained in 1987 in […]
Co-operative Councils’ Innovation Network
This is one of the most challenging periods in local government history. Public Sector funding continues to decline; councils are having to look for innovative ways of providing services with reducing budgets. The Network comprises 22 UK local authorities who are driving global municipal co-operative policy development with a common belief in the Values and […]
Sustainability: inbuilt in the cooperative model
In 2013 the global representative body for the global cooperative sector, the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA), decided it was time to take action on sustainability. Oft used as a term to describe cooperatives, the ICA wanted to understand in great detail in fact how appropriate and accurate the term “sustainable” was to describe the cooperative […]
Participation: The Glue That Binds
Every week, the members of the Shallalà Honey Producers cooperative in southern Ethiopia must walk seven or eight kilometres to attend their regular meeting. The Italian consumers’ cooperative Coop Adriatica has 1.16 million members, making an Annual General Meeting for all an impossibility. All over the world, cooperatives face different challenges in ensuring that their members can have their […]
The Benefits of Women-Led Co-ops in Arab States
More than 1 billion people worldwide are members of co-operatives, and on first glance, that staggering fact seems to have no geographic bounds. There are an astounding number of co-operative members from countries as far-ranging as Singapore (where they make up half of the countrys population) to Germany (that counts a quarter of its population […]
Co-operative legislation finds a home in more nations
Our main objective is to increase the prosperity and welfare of our people by means of economic development and improvement. Within this respect, one of the important means contributing to activating our policies on a social state is the cooperatives entrepreneurship. Cooperatives have gained an international identity in time and have become successful initiative models […]
A hope to feed nine billion by 2050
Paul Hazen recalls attending a members meeting of the local electric distribution co-operative back in the late 1970s. Up for debate was the shutting down of its nuclear power plant. The floor was divided and loudly so. The resolution was voted down and consequently the members moved on to the next agenda item – […]
Co-operatives drive “real economy” and provide solution to crisis
Dame Pauline Green tells national conference one billion people can’t be wrong Paris, France. 4 October 2012; Co-operative enterprises are a lynchpin in the “real economy” and co-operative banks stabilise and ensure against market failures, said Dame Pauline Green, President of the International Co-operative Alliance, today. Yet while more than one million people from around […]