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 […]
Co-cylce 2013 Tour
Co-cycle is now accepting applications for the 2013 Tour (deadline extended to April 15th). Join them today! Co-cycle will be traveling from Seattle to Boston from early June to Mid-August. Download the Co-cycle Rider Application here and please submit the application to info@co-cycle.coop no later than April 15th.
International Womens Day 2013
Today is International Womens Day, a time to celebrate womens achievements around the world. On March 8th every year the political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner. Since the beginning, the democratic and open form of cooperative businesses was particularly appealing and welcoming […]
IYC 2012 comes to a close
With today’s Stories.coop story of the day from Coexphal in Almeria, we close out our 366 stories of the day from the 2012 International Year of Cooperatives. But there’s more to come on Stories.coop! Watch this video to see what we’ve accomplished together this year and leave us your feedback about what you’d like to […]
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 […]
CLARITY The Cooperative Law and Regulation Initiative
The Cooperative Law and Regulation Initiative (CLARITY) was established in 2005 by members of the U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council (OCDC) with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The chief goal of CLARITY is to provide support to cooperative movements in developing economies as they analyse and change their legal and regulatory […]
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 […]
ICA Asia Pacific regional assembly this week
The 10th ICA-AP Regional Assembly and related meetings will be held in Kobe, Japan from 26th to 30th November 2012. Says ICA-AP President, Mr. Li Chunsheng, “the Regional Assembly deals with the development of cooperatives in the region and detailing of operations of ICA in the region and formulates policies on major issues beneficial and […]
The Traguardidee Prize to Maria Nowak
On November 20th the Associazione delle Donne del Credito Cooperativo (Association of Women in Cooperative Credit) will award the Traguardidee Prize to Maria Nowak, a world renown economist and Microfinance expert and the president of Adie – Association pour le droit à linitiative économique. Every year the Association awards the prize to someone outside of […]
Global worker cooperative day Nov 16
Friday November 16th 2012 is Global Worker Cooperative Day. The 35th National Congress of French Worker Cooperatives will be held on the 15th and 16th November in Marseille (France). A full day is planned of exchanges and experiences of the diversity of the models and practices of worker cooperation across the world, debates and analyses […]