News on informal economy
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News
ILO COOP eNewsUpdate No. 7, August 2017
29 August 2017
This latest issue of the ILO COOP Newsletter highlights a number of recent events and developments on cooperatives.
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Spotlight Interviews with Cooperators
SEWA Cooperative Federation in India: Towards self-reliance
16 August 2017
"Spotlight Interviews with Cooperators" is a series of interviews with cooperative leaders from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work with cooperatives. For this issue ILO interviewed Ms Mirai Chatterjee, Chairperson of the SEWA Cooperative Federation and Director of the SEWA Social Security Team, who has been working at SEWA for 33 years.
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Youth employment
How to get more young people into better jobs
10 August 2017
New ILO book focuses on the global challenge of youth unemployment and proposes policies to create more decent jobs for young women and men.
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ILO COOP eNewsUpdate No. 6, July 2017
19 July 2017
This latest issue of the ILO COOP Newsletter highlights a number of recent events and developments on cooperatives.
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COOP Champions
Özge Berber-Agtaş, ILO Office for Turkey in Ankara
06 July 2017
COOP Champions features ILO colleagues from around the world working on cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy enterprises. It highlights their contributions, and shares highlights of their experiences, current work, and future aspirations.
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News
ILO celebrates the International Day of Cooperatives by focusing on workers in the informal economy
04 July 2017
The United Nations’ International Day of Cooperatives (IDC) is held annually on the first Saturday of July. For this occasion, the ILO organised an event, recognizing the theme of the 2017 IDC, “cooperatives leave no one behind”, with a focus on the role and potential of cooperatives and other social and solidarity economy organizations and enterprises providing a pathway to formalization for those working in the informal economy. The event was also an opportunity to launch a new report by the ILO and WIEGO, titled “Cooperation among workers in the informal economy: A focus on home-based workers and waste pickers”.
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5th Regulating for Decent Work Conference
ILO meeting to focus on major transformations in the world of work
03 July 2017
Three-day gathering of international experts is expected to provide policy guidance related to sweeping change in the world of work.
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ILO COOP eNewsUpdate No. 5, June 2017
29 June 2017
This latest issue of the ILO COOP Newsletter highlights a number of recent events and developments on cooperatives.
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ILO response to Syrian refugee crisis
Syrian refugees in Jordan welcome work permits, but challenges persist
28 June 2017
New ILO study, prepared in collaboration with UNHCR, looks at the impact of work permits provided to Syrian refugees in Jordan that has resulted in thousands of them formally joining the Jordanian workforce.
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Domestic workers in Trinidad and Tobago develop a business plan for their cooperative
22 June 2017
On May 12 to 13, the ILO organised a workshop with domestic workers and their union in Trinidad and Tobago to develop a business plan for their cooperative. The workshop used the C-BED methodology, a low cost, action-based and participatory group learning approach designed by the ILO to help entrepreneurs and micro-business owners in planning and improving their businesses.