Международный день кооперативов, 5 июля.
Día Internacional de las Cooperativas,5 de julio.
This year, International Co-operative Day, to be celebrated on 5 July, will have the theme of "Co-operative enterprises achieve sustainable development for all.” Concern for the community is one of the co-operative movement’s founding values and, as such, the need to sustainably safeguard favourable living conditions for communities underpins all co-operatives’ operations and vision.
Tema de 2014: Las empresas cooperativas logran el desarrollo sostenible para todos.
Thème pour 2014: Les entreprises coopératives aboutissent au développement durable pour tous.
Тема для 2014: Кооперативные предприятия достижения устойчивого развития для всех.
主題2014年：合作經營企業實現可持續發展的一切。
موضوع لعام 2014: الشركات التعاونية تحقيق التنمية المستدامة للجميع.
2014のテーマ：協同組合企業はすべてのために持続的な発展を実現しています。
Since that date the global community celebrates United Nations International Day of Cooperatives and ICA's International Cooperative Day on the first Saturday of July. The United Nations Secretary-General issues a message on the occasion of the day as does the International Co-operative Alliance as well as other COPAC members. Celebrations of the Day are held at the international, national and local levels around the world.
The significance of cooperatives have been acknowledged as associations and
enterprises through which citizens can effectively improve their lives while
contributing to the economic, social, cultural and political advancement of
their community and nation. The cooperative movement has been also recognized as
a distinct and major stakeholder in both national and international affairs.
The cooperative movement is highly democratic, locally autonomous but internationally integrated, and a form of organization of associations and enterprises whereby citizens themselves rely on self-help and their own responsibility to meet goals that include not only economic but social and environmental objectives, such as overcoming poverty, securing productive employment and encouraging social integration.
In 1992, following a concerted lobbying effort by the cooperative movements in membership of the International Co- operative Alliance (ICA) and members of the Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC), the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the International Day of Cooperatives by the UN by resolution 47/90 of 16 December 1992.
The resolution states:
In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly adopted another resolution 49/155 of 23 December 1994 on cooperatives which not only called on governments and international agencies to:
Cooperative enterprises put social justice and equity at the heart of economic progress. As member-owned, member-run and member-serving businesses, cooperatives empower people to collectively realize their economic aspirations, while strengthening their social and human capital and developing their communities.
To celebrate the International Day of Cooperatives this year, UNDESA-DSPD in partnership with the Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC) will organize a panel discussion on “Cooperative enterprises achieve sustainable development for all” on 10 July 2014 from 10am to 1pm in conference room 3 (CB) at UN Headquarters, New York.
The 2014 commemoration of the International Day of Cooperatives will highlight the principles, values and operational realities of cooperatives that make them unique instruments for achieving sustainable development and showcase the importance of the business model to realizing people-centred, inclusive development, post-2015.
Newsletters :
This issue of the COOP News includes articles on various events, projects, trainings and meetings related to the work of the ILO's COOP Unit between January and March, 2014.
Publications :
Providing clean energy and energy access through cooperatives
This publication is a collection of case studies on cooperatives in energy production, distribution and consumption as a contribution to the on-going search for ways in which the goal of sustainable Energy for All can be turned into a reality.
Cooperatives and Sustainability - An investigation into the relationship.
Cooperatives and the Sustainable Development Goals - A contribution to the Post-2015 Development Debate. A ploicy Brief
In order to bring cooperative voices into the discussion around the post-2015 development agenda, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) have launched an initiative on the contribution of cooperatives to sustainable development. This brief reports on the results of an online survey that investigated the current and potential contributions of cooperatives to sustainable development.
Forum :International Day of Cooperative, July 5th
U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council (OCDC) - Sustainable development: It’s what OCDC does
OCDC brings together organizations committed to building a more prosperous world through cooperatives. Its mission is to champion, advocate and promote effective international cooperative development. OCDC members are global leaders in cooperative development in Africa, Latin America and Asia. With projects in over 70 counties, OCDC members implement the largest port folio of cooperative development programs in the world. Members are: ACDI/VOCA, Cooperative Resources International, Global Communities, HealthPartners, Land O'Lakes International Development, NCBA CLUSA , National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and the World Council of Credit Unions
This year, International Co-operative Day, to be celebrated on 5 July, will have the theme of “Co-operative enterprises achieve sustainable development for all.” Read message here
Cette année, la Journée internationale des coopératives, qui sera célébrée le 5 juillet, aura pour thème : « les entreprises coopératives aboutissent au développement durable pour tous ». Lire message ici
El lema de esta edición del Día Internacional de las Cooperativas, que se celebrará el 5 de julio, será “Las empresas cooperativas logran el desarrollo sostenible para todos”. Leer noticia aquí
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Día Internacional de las Cooperativas,5 de julio.
This year’s International Day of Cooperatives falls at a critical time. The United Nations is working to lay the groundwork for success on three major fronts in 2015: reaching the Millennium Development Goals; achieving a meaningful new climate agreement; and adopting a long-range agenda for inclusive sustainable development.
Cooperative enterprises can help further these objectives. They are helping communities in both developed and developing countries to generate energy, manage water supplies and provide other basic services. Cooperatives are particularly important to agriculture, food security and rural development. In the finance sector, cooperatives serve more than 857 million people, including tens of millions who live in poverty.
As member-owned, member-run and member-serving businesses, cooperatives can put social justice and equity at the heart of economic progress while helping to ensure that the production and provision of goods and services matches the needs and aspirations of communities.
On this International Day of Cooperatives, let us commit to making even greater use of these arrangements to empower people and usher in a more sustainable future.
Ban Ki-moon
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| The global E-magazine on cooperatives in industry and services |
This year, International Co-operative Day, to be celebrated on 5 July, will have the theme of "Co-operative enterprises achieve sustainable development for all.” Concern for the community is one of the co-operative movement’s founding values and, as such, the need to sustainably safeguard favourable living conditions for communities underpins all co-operatives’ operations and vision.
Tema de 2014: Las empresas cooperativas logran el desarrollo sostenible para todos.
Thème pour 2014: Les entreprises coopératives aboutissent au développement durable pour tous.
Тема для 2014: Кооперативные предприятия достижения устойчивого развития для всех.
主題2014年：合作經營企業實現可持續發展的一切。
موضوع لعام 2014: الشركات التعاونية تحقيق التنمية المستدامة للجميع.
2014のテーマ：協同組合企業はすべてのために持続的な発展を実現しています。
Since that date the global community celebrates United Nations International Day of Cooperatives and ICA's International Cooperative Day on the first Saturday of July. The United Nations Secretary-General issues a message on the occasion of the day as does the International Co-operative Alliance as well as other COPAC members. Celebrations of the Day are held at the international, national and local levels around the world.
The Cooperative Movement :
The cooperative movement is highly democratic, locally autonomous but internationally integrated, and a form of organization of associations and enterprises whereby citizens themselves rely on self-help and their own responsibility to meet goals that include not only economic but social and environmental objectives, such as overcoming poverty, securing productive employment and encouraging social integration.
In 1992, following a concerted lobbying effort by the cooperative movements in membership of the International Co- operative Alliance (ICA) and members of the Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC), the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the International Day of Cooperatives by the UN by resolution 47/90 of 16 December 1992.
The resolution states:
"... The General Assembly, ... Proclaims the first Saturday of July 1995 to be the International Day of Cooperatives, marking the centenary of the establishment of the International Cooperative Alliance, and decides to consider the possibility of observing an International Day of Cooperatives in future years; ..."The date of the celebration of the International Day was chosen to coincide with the already existing International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) International Cooperative Day with has been celebrated since 1923.
In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly adopted another resolution 49/155 of 23 December 1994 on cooperatives which not only called on governments and international agencies to:
"consider fully the potential of cooperatives for contributing to the solution of economic, social and environmental problems in formulating national development strategies; and consider reviewing legal and administrative constraints on the activities of cooperatives with a view to eliminating those constraints that are not applied to other businesses and enterprises",but also invited:
"...governments, relevant international organizations, specialized agencies and national and international cooperative organizations to observe annually the International Day of Cooperatives on the first Saturday of July starting from 1995, as proclaimed by the General Assembly in its resolution 47/90".
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| Cooperative enterprises achieve sustainable development for all. Panel Discussion, International Day of Cooperative 2014 |
Cooperative enterprises put social justice and equity at the heart of economic progress. As member-owned, member-run and member-serving businesses, cooperatives empower people to collectively realize their economic aspirations, while strengthening their social and human capital and developing their communities.
To celebrate the International Day of Cooperatives this year, UNDESA-DSPD in partnership with the Committee for the Promotion and Advancement of Cooperatives (COPAC) will organize a panel discussion on “Cooperative enterprises achieve sustainable development for all” on 10 July 2014 from 10am to 1pm in conference room 3 (CB) at UN Headquarters, New York.
The 2014 commemoration of the International Day of Cooperatives will highlight the principles, values and operational realities of cooperatives that make them unique instruments for achieving sustainable development and showcase the importance of the business model to realizing people-centred, inclusive development, post-2015.
Newsletters :
This issue of the COOP News includes articles on various events, projects, trainings and meetings related to the work of the ILO's COOP Unit between January and March, 2014.
Publications :
Providing clean energy and energy access through cooperatives
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| Providing clean energy and energy access through cooperatives - ILO |
This publication is a collection of case studies on cooperatives in energy production, distribution and consumption as a contribution to the on-going search for ways in which the goal of sustainable Energy for All can be turned into a reality.
Cooperatives and Sustainability - An investigation into the relationship.
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| Cooperatives and Sustainability - An investigation into the relationship. |
Last month, the International
Cooperative Alliance (ICA) held their annual conference in Cape Town.
One the presentations at this conference included reporting on the
results of a partnership project, between Community Research Connections
and the Sustainability Solutions Group, that investigated the
relationship between the cooperative model and sustainable development.
This research employed a unique methodology to compare key concepts
distilled from seminal literature on sustainability to (firstly) the
cooperatives principles and (secondly) websites and annual reports from
various cooperatives around the world. As this was a global scan, the
study was limited in the manner that it did not visit the cooperatives
on-the-ground and thus could not validate whether cooperatives are
actually acting in a sustainable manner; however, this work served as an
initial step to see if cooperative model inherently leads to thinking
and speaking about sustainability.
Some of the main observations from the research include:- Co-operatives are involved in the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability.
- The co-operative principles are more closely aligned with the social dimensions of sustainability.
- Similarly, co-operatives websites and annual reports (overall) most strongly related to social aspects of sustainability.
- In communicating their efforts on sustainability, co-operatives understate their efforts on Principles 1, 2 and 3.
- A co-operative is sustainable when it is an economically viable business that fully implements the seven co-operative principles, and maintains or regenerates the ecosystem in which they are embedded.
- Co-operative associations lag behind co-operatives in advancing a comprehensive sustainability agenda.
- Of the cooperative principles, concepts related to principle 5 (education, training, knowledge sharing), principle 6 (cooperation among cooperatives), and principle 7 (sustainable community development) were strongly communicated.
- Cooperatives websites highlighted sustainability concepts, whereas in the annual reports, sustainability concepts were discussed in context with items (e.g., items relating business operations).
The report can be downloaded from Sustainability Solutions Group's website here, and the presentation on the research can be downloaded from here.
Cooperatives and the Sustainable Development Goals - A contribution to the Post-2015 Development Debate. A ploicy Brief
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| Cooperatives and the Sustainable Development Goals - A contribution to the Post-2015 Development Debate. A ploicy Brief |
This brief summarizes the main findings of a forthcoming report of the
same title, by Frederick O. Wanyama of Maseno University in Kenya,
prepared as part of ILO’s contribution to the initiative on the
contribution of cooperatives to sustainable development.
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Cooperative movement engagement in sustainable development and the post-2015 process: Survey findings |
In order to bring cooperative voices into the discussion around the post-2015 development agenda, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) have launched an initiative on the contribution of cooperatives to sustainable development. This brief reports on the results of an online survey that investigated the current and potential contributions of cooperatives to sustainable development.
"The term 'cooperative' means an autonomous association of persons
united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural
needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically
controlled enterprise."
U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council (OCDC) - Sustainable development: It’s what OCDC does
OCDC brings together organizations committed to building a more prosperous world through cooperatives. Its mission is to champion, advocate and promote effective international cooperative development. OCDC members are global leaders in cooperative development in Africa, Latin America and Asia. With projects in over 70 counties, OCDC members implement the largest port folio of cooperative development programs in the world. Members are: ACDI/VOCA, Cooperative Resources International, Global Communities, HealthPartners, Land O'Lakes International Development, NCBA CLUSA , National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and the World Council of Credit Unions
This year, International Co-operative Day, to be celebrated on 5 July, will have the theme of “Co-operative enterprises achieve sustainable development for all.” Read message here
Cette année, la Journée internationale des coopératives, qui sera célébrée le 5 juillet, aura pour thème : « les entreprises coopératives aboutissent au développement durable pour tous ». Lire message ici
El lema de esta edición del Día Internacional de las Cooperativas, que se celebrará el 5 de julio, será “Las empresas cooperativas logran el desarrollo sostenible para todos”. Leer noticia aquí
GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS
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| The Global Competitiveness Report 2013-2014 assesses the competitiveness landscape of 148 economies, providing insight into the drivers of their productivity and prosperity. The Report series remains the most comprehensive assessment of national competitiveness worldwide. |
Country rankings: PDF | Excel
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