International Cooperative Alliance

🎧 Who are we and why do we build a better world? In 3⃣ minutes, our NEW video explains how the ICA plays a key role in connecting #coops around the world and makes it easy to understand our structure and functioning 💡 Created to raise awareness of the cooperative business model and the role of the ICA, the video explains how cooperatives build a better world by empowering their members and putting the planet’s well-being ahead of profit. 📺 https://lnkd.in/e7w_5_WG 🗣 Available in English, Spanish and French 📽️ proudly produced by the worker cooperative Bruna Cooperatives Europe Cooperativas de las Américas International Cooperative Alliance - Africa ICA Asia and Pacific CICOPA International Health Cooperative Organisation ICMIF

50 DAYS TO GO! On July 6, join us in recognizing the vital role of #cooperatives in driving change, from sustainability to social equity. 😎 How will you celebrate it? Share your plans in the comments. Follow the link to learn more: www.coopsday.coop #CelebrateCoops #WeLoveCoops

Brazilian #cooperatives are gathering this week to define the future of the national movement. Global cooperative leaders joined our member OCB at this very special occasion. Read below the reflections from our president Ariel Guarco 👇 Cooperativas de las Américas Danilo Salerno João Martins

🌍 Happy International Day of Living Together in Peace! 🤝 Today, as we celebrate unity and cooperation, it's the perfect time to look ahead to November and 🔜 the Global Conference on "Cooperatives Build Prosperity for All" we are organising in India🌟 Did you know? The International Day of Living Together in Peace, established by the United Nations, serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of fostering peaceful coexistence and solidarity among all peoples and nations. It's a day to promote reconciliation, compassion and respect for diversity which are at the heart of the cooperative movement. 🕊 At our conference, we'll dive deep into how cooperatives are driving prosperity while promoting these essential values. From economic resilience to social equity, cooperatives are leading the way in building a more just and harmonious world. 💻 Take a look at the conference website: https://lnkd.in/evMMRk_g Stay tuned for exciting updates, insightful speaker announcements, and exclusive sneak peeks leading up to the conference. Together, let's celebrate the power of cooperation and solidarity to create positive change in the world. 🌿✨ #Internationalday #peace #cooperation  #NamasteICA ICA Asia and Pacific

💡Value of membership Eleven staff members at the global level, form a formidable team, along with their colleagues at the sectoral & regional offices, who are dedicated to serving #coops globally! In the coming months, we will feature members of the team and invite you to get to know the true value of an ICA membership. For each of them, it's more than a job. The cooperative culture, values and identity, is woven into the fabric of their lives 🫶 Today meet Gretchen Leire Marc and Jeroen 🙌 https://lnkd.in/eBd_gzYd 🗣 Join us on 2️⃣ 8️⃣ May for a coop marathon! You are invited to attend 2 webinars with other cooperators, to learn how the International Cooperative Alliance serves its members, and the impact it has on the cooperative movement. 🕘 9:00 CEST with ICA Asia and Pacific. REGISTER HERE: https://lnkd.in/eMpWqR5P 🕓 16:00 CEST with Cooperative Housing International (CHI). REGISTER HERE: https://lnkd.in/e8jQx32f #WeAreCoops

The #C7Summit started yesterday and the Italian Cooperative Alliance is taking part in it! 🙌 #Cooperatives have been involved in the discussion and took part in various C7 working groups. The Civil 7 – C7 is one of the official engagement groups of the G7. It provides a platform for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to bring forth proposals and demands aimed at protecting the environment and promoting social and economic development and well-being for all, ensuring healthy lives, gender equality, human rights and the principle of leaving no one behind, in order to stimulate a constructive dialogue with the G7. The C7 goes far beyond the 7 countries, gathering the voice of more than 700 organizations from around 70 countries; policy positions and recommendations are therefore developed collectively, thanks to a vibrant and inclusive process. Since January 2024, 7 Working Groups have been set up and are working intensively on different thematic areas in view of the C7 Summit. In the picture, cooperative representatives with Riccardo Moro, C7 Chair. #g7italy

On May 11 we celebrate the World Fair Trade Day! 🌎📊 The fair trade principles reshape the business landscape as they play a crucial role in promoting economic equity, environmental sustainability and social justice. These are crucial to global prosperity! ✨ Don’t miss out on deeper discussions and insights at the ICA Global Cooperative Conference on November 25-30 taking place in New Delhi with the main theme “Cooperatives Build Prosperity for All”! Registrations open on June 20th but you can take a moment to explore more about the conference! https://lnkd.in/epPmrVdH #coops #worldfairtrade #prosperity

- 60 days to go! #Coopsday THEME 2024 📯 Cooperatives Build a Better Future for All ☀️ 💡A golden opportunity to showcase our current & historical contributions to building a sustainable future, accelerating efforts to implement the #SDG by 2030! 📩 https://lnkd.in/eQpj2kHJ "As we celebrate the significant and often quiet contributions of cooperatives, it is also time for us to reflect on what we have accomplished to build a better future, and what we can do better together," says Jeroen Douglas, the Director General of the International Cooperative Alliance. "Let's use this day to be inspired to collaborate, examine all the possibilities to reach the SDG goals, and take action to achieve them." ICA Asia and Pacific Cooperatives Europe Cooperativas de las Américas International Cooperative Alliance - Africa

Tomorrow is 1st May, it is a good day to remind the great work our sectorial organisation CICOPA is doing to unite, represent and promote worker-owned #cooperatives. Because democratically controlled and employee managed enterprises are building better jobs. Because there is "another way" of doing business. By putting people at the heart of the business, we are promoting decent and longterm work. Everywhere. #WeAreCoops

MoU signed with Indian Farmers Fertiliser Coop Ltd. for holding the ICA Global Coop Conference 2024 & General Assembly, as well as for the launch of the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives 2025, in New Delhi! The theme of the conference is Cooperatives Build Prosperity for All aims to convey the people-centered, purpose-led, and shared progress-driven institutions that cooperatives are. The signatories of the MoU were IFFCO Managing Director Dr. U S Awasthi and ICA Director-General Jeroen Douglas. The MoU was signed in Jordan where the 11th Asia and Pacific Ministers' Conference is being held. Present at the occasion were ICA President Ariel Guarco, ICA Asia and Pacific President Dr. Chandra Pal Singh Yadav, NCDC Managing Director Pankaj Bansal, H.E. Dr. Mohammad Thneibat Chairman of Jordan Phosphate Mines Co (JPMC), President of the International Co-operative Banking Association (ICBA) Subrahmanyam Bhima, Dy. CEO of the National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI) Savitri Singh, and a host of officials drawn from both the cooperative sector and the government side. India means: 800,000 #coops 290M cooperators #NamasteICA https://lnkd.in/eFtZQcpW