ILO COOP and ICA Brussels teams meet to discuss elements of a joint work plan

Key areas of collaboration identified at the meeting include the implementation of the guidelines on statistics of cooperatives, development and dissemination of ILO’s cooperative development tools, and cooperation around research and communications.

News | 26 February 2020
On 24 February 2020, staff members from the Cooperatives Unit of the ILO and the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) Headquarters in Brussels held a meeting to discuss elements of a joint work plan based on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the two parties in June 2019.

Key areas of collaboration identified during the meeting include: Implementation of the guidelines on statistics of cooperatives adopted at the 20th International Conference of Labour Statisticians (ICLS) in October 2018; Support for the dissemination of the ILO’s cooperative development tools particularly Think.Coop, Start.Coop, Manage.Coop (forthcoming), ApexFinCoop, and a training tool for agricultural cooperatives for the elimination of child labour (forthcoming); and Collaboration around research and communications on the occasion of the ILO COOP Centenary and the ICA 125th Anniversary in 2020.

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