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International Co-operative Alliance: “uniting, representing and serving co-operatives worldwide”

October 2010Issue 70

Inside this issue:

• Editor’s desk 2

• ExpoCoop 2

• D-G Report 3

• IYC 2012 4

• Women &

youth

5

•

IDC 2010 6-7

• Regional

• Assembly

8-9

• Regions 10

• Sectors 11-12

• Shortbytes 13

• Members 14

• People 15

• Calendar 16

Editor:

María Elena Chá[email protected]

Associate Editors:Melina MorrisonSuzanne Henderson

Barbara Cameron-Smithwww.ica.coop

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Inside this issue:

• Editor’s desk 2

• ICA Expo 2

• D-G Report 3

• International

Year of

Co-operatives

2012

4-5

•

International Year of Youth 5

• International

Day of

Co-operatives

2010

6-7

• Regions 8-10

• Sectors 11-12

• Noteworthy 13

• People 14

• Members 15

• Calendar 16

Editor:

María Elena Chá[email protected]

Associate Editors:Melina MorrisonSuzanne Henderson

Barbara Cameron-Smithwww.ica.coop

UN launches Co-operative Year website

Co-operative hope rises from the flood waters

The United Nations has

launched the official

website for International

Year of Co-operatives (IYC)

2012.

The website provides

background information and

d o c u m e n t s o n t h e

International Year, a list of

Turn to page 4 for more

information.

the national committees

already established by UN

Member States around the

globe, focal points for UN

agencies and details on IYC

partners and planned

activities.

See: http://social.un.org/

coopsyear/

Pa k i s t a n ’ s r e c e n tcatastrophic f loods

resulted in a human andeconomic disaster on anunprecedented scale. Morethan 20 million people wereaffected and a fifth of Pakistan’s land area (some 17million acres) subjected toflooding. Co-operativesimmediately reacted toprovide relief.

ICA’s Pakistan member,Karach i Co-operat i veHousing Societies Union Ltd,provided a report to theICA Asia-Pacific Assembly inBeijing, China, noting thatrelief was still required.

To prepare ICA’s response,ICA Asia-Pacific RegionalDirector, Dr Chan-Ho Choiwill travel to Pakistan on a

fact finding mission in mid-October and report back onthe needs for reconstructionand development throughco-operative enterprises.

ICA members are urged todirectly contact the KarachiCo-operat i ve Hous ingSocieties Union by e-mail:[email protected] for more information.

Countdown to 2012—One simple message

W ith just 14 monthsuntil the launch of

International Year of Co-operatives, the ICA Boardhas agreed to focus the ICAstrategy on public awarenessand improving the visibility of co-operatives—getting themessage out on what are co-operatives; what they do,

and how they make adifference to individuals,communi t ies , nat ionaleconomies and the globaleconomic system.

One simple message willguide a global campaign asreports Charles Gould, ICADirector-General, as he

ICA will encourage itsmembers to work with theirgovernments, and otherstakeholders such as media,development agencies, nongovernment organisations,unions, businesses andeducational institutions tosupport the Year.

The Year affords themovement the opportunityto work outside itstraditional spheres.Learn more on page 4 and 5

outlines the strategy adoptedby the ICA Board inSeptember 2010 (see page3).

As the campaign is defined inmore detail, the ICA ismaking information availableto its members—a webpageto share information

including a provisionalcalendar of events, and anew information bulletin— Countdown to 2012— formembers and partners.

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From the Editor’s desk

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Expo 2012

This issue of the Digesttakes an international

tone. We report on how theco-operative movement isbeing celebrated by theglobal community on theoccasion of InternationalDay of Co-operatives andw i t h u p d a t e s o npreparat ions for theInternational Year of Co-

operatives 2012.

The opportunity to make co-operatives visible increaseswith these global events.We find that ICA membersare taking advantage of these, but that the larger co-operative movement and itssupporters are also involved,testimony to what the ICA’sDirector-General has rightly

We have included reportson important statutory andcapacity building activities— the upcoming ICA Expo2010, the regional assemblymeetings in Asia-Pacific,Americas and Africa, and theseminars and conferencesorganised by ICA’s sectoral

organisations.

We are also pleased to shareinformation on changes inco-op leadership as well asrecognition for co-operativeleaders—Roberto Rodriguesand Clemencia Dupont Cruzwho have received significanthonours.

We count on your input forfuture issues and welcomeyour comments.

noted as a surge in interestin the co-operative model of enterprise. Some interestingreports on agricultural andfinancial co-operatives attest

to this trend.

The work on youth and co-operatives is highlighted inthis issue as we startInternational Year of Youth.We report on the work inprogress of the regionalyouth committees and someprogrammes that membersrun to encourage youth to join and more activelyparticipate in the movement.We count on yourcontinued input to increaseour coverage on youth andco-operatives in the comingmonths.

María Elena Chávez

Hertig, ICA Deputy

Director-General

From the Editor’s desk

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Expo 2012 ICA Expo 2010 update

The ICA’s second globaltrade fair will be held in

Bangalore, India from 8-10December. The Expo teamwere at the ICA Asia-PacificRegional Assembly toencourage ICA members inAsia to register as exhibitorsand buyers.

ICA Expo 2010 provides co-operatives with a uniqueopportunity to developbusiness in the emergingAsian market. More than

15,000 visitors are expected.The strongest level of

participation is alreadycoming from the Asian

continent. Former ICADirector-General , Ia inMacdonald, will consult tothe organisers of ICA Expo.

Macdonald has stronglysupported the concept of aregular global co-operativetrade fair: "I am delightedthat we have already soldover 80% of the space inBangalore, but I amdetermined that we will

reach 100%. Showcasing co-operative enterprise in this

way is not just good for co-operative to co-operative

trade, but also greatlyincreases the visibility andsuccess of the co-operativemodel of business to theoutside world,” he said.

In 2012, ICA Expo will beheld in Manchester, UK.Macdonald said that holdingthe trade fair in thebirthplace of co-operationduring the UN's InternationalYear of Co-operatives is astrong recipe for success.

ICA Expo Team at the

ICA A-P Regional Assembly, Beijing, China

Exclusive Offers

To encourage the participation of purchasing managers, buyers and agents and to providetrade opportunities with participating co-operatives, ICA Expo is offering a HostedBuyers Programme. Selected buyers benefit from complimentary travel,accommodation, food and transfers. For more information contact [email protected].

Co-operatives with a registered .coop domain name can receive a discount on the boothrate for exhibitors at ICA Expo 2010. For a limited time, exhibitors can get a free .coopname for the first year from GoodLuck Internet Services (India). An accredited .coop regis-trar, GoodLuck can offer this valuable domain name to customers around the world. Moreinformation at www.GoodLuckDomain.in.

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DG’s ReportDirector-General’s report— “A simple message for IYC”

ICA Director-General,

Charles Gould

I am delighted to be writing

my first Digest report to

you as Director-General,having succeeded Iain

Macdonald on 1 September.

It is a privilege to be given

the opportunity to build on

the work of Iain and the

Board at this especially

promising time for co-

operatives. The world is

facing serious challenges to

which we have a solution.

We have a story to tell.

This is a particularly exciting

time to be joining the

International Co-operative

Alliance, as we prepare for

the Un i t ed Na t i on s

International Year of Co-

operatives in 2012. The

official launch of the Year is

just 13 months away, in

November 2011.

At its meeting in Beijing

earlier this month, the ICABoard took the important

decision of determining our

priority for the Year. The

Board has determined to

focus our efforts on

achieving one significant

outcome—to raise public

awareness of co-operatives.

To achieve this, we envision

a campaign with a very

simple message. The precise

message has not yet beenselected, and we will be

c o m m u n i c a t i n g w i t h

representative members in

the coming weeks to finalise

it.

The goal of the message will

be to arouse curiosity: To

into your planning for

m a r k e t i n g a n d

communications, beginning inNovember 2011 and running

throughout 2012! We will

share the content of the

message with you as soon as

it has been fully crafted and

tested.

2012 will be the beginning,

not the culmination, of a

positioning of the co-

operative “brand” in the

public perception. We want

the public to associate co-

operatives with a values-

based approach to business.

The specific values that are

emphasised will shift over

time and across co-operative

sectors, from food security

to sound environmental

practices and fair banking.

Our goal at this stage is not

to get into that detail, but to

stay at the higher, more

generic, values-based level.The specific values, and our

principles, will be supporting

messages for speci f ic

audiences.

Co-operatives have real

solutions to offer a world

facing serious economic

challenges. The United

Nations Year provides us

with the platform to share

that message. I look forwardto working with you as we

position co-operatives as the

important solution they

represent, and as we enter

what promises to be a

period of great growth for

co-operatives.

get the public to want to

learn more about co-

operatives. The initialmessage will not be able to

explain our values and

principles; that would be far

too complex for a broad

public awareness campaign

of this sort. The campaignwill let people know,

however, how to find out

more about co-operatives,

and the tone of the message

will be designed to suggest

that this is a values-based

business model that is

solving problems confronting

the world today.

The approach to this

campaign will be to engage

ICA members around the

world in distributing this

one, simple message. We

a r e a s k i n g y o u t o

incorporate the message intoy o u r e x i s t i n g

communications channels:

on your product packaging,

on po i n t - o f - pu r cha se

displays, on posters, and in

your commun icat ions

materials. This approach

l e v e r a g e s m a r k e t i n g

expenses our members are

already incurring.

The opportunity before us is

to use the United Nations

recognition to break throughall of the other messages

that compete for the public’s

attention. We are mostlikely to achieve that

breakthrough if we all use

the one, single, simple

message. Please begin now

to incorporate this strategy

“2012 will be thebeginning, not theculmination, of apositioning of the

co-operative‘brand’ in the

publicperception.”

Charles GouldICA Director-General

ICA Annual Report 2009

The 2009 annual report of its activities, highlights achievements and challenges. 2009 was a

historic year with the election of the organisation’s first woman President, the proclamationof the UN International Year of Co-operatives 2012, and the enactment of newstatutes and bye-laws. Download the report at: www.ica.coop/publications/ar/

Visit the D-G’swebpage for

presentations andreports:

www.ica.coop/directorpage/

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Update: International Year of Co-operatives 2012

2012 preparations aroundthe world are moving

quickly. ICA is in contact

with the United Nationssecretariat regularly toexchange information andideas on how to make 2012the beginning of a new erafor co-operatives — an eraof growth based on betterunderstanding and supportfor what the movementrefers to as “the better formof business”.

Fourteen countries have

committed to the Inter-national Year of Co-operatives with governmentsestablishing official UN IYCNat ional Committees .These bring togethergovernment officials and co-operative stake-holdersi nc lud ing med i a andeducational institutions towork out a plan of how toincrease the knowledge andimpact of co-operatives at

the national level. ICA’starget is to have an officialUN national committeeestablished in each of the 92countries where ICA hasmembers.

The UN technical agencieshave also established focalpoints showing their interestin promoting co-operativesin the areas in which theywork including agricultureand rural development,e m p l o y m e n t , h u m a nsettlements, food security,and access to financialservices to name but a few.They will be setting out theirprogramme in the comingmonths.

An ICA delegation met withone of the UN agencies inAugust. ICA President,

Dame Pauline Green,Director-General, CharlesGould and Deputy-DG,

Assembly in Beijing inSeptember. In Beijing, DamePauline told the Assembly

that 2012 wi l l havedevelopment objectives notonly celebratory ones. ICAAfrica will include a specialsession at its RegionalAssembly in Maseru, Lesothoin October, and ICAAmericas will provideinformation at their RegionalConference and Assembly in

Buenos Aires in November.

What is coming up next?

• The s logan of theInternational Year of Co-operatives should bereleased in the next few

weeks.

• The official logo of the Yearshould be launched by year-

end.

• Dotcoop will announcehow it will support IYC byhelping raise the visibility of

co-operatives through theuse of the .coop domain byUN National Committeesand co-operatives. Anaming convention will beproposed so that all UNNational Committees can

be easily located.

• The official launch of theInternational Year of Co-operatives is planned forNovember 2011 at UnitedNations Headquarters inNew York (USA). There isa proposal to have a specialsession of the UN GeneralAssembly that will focus onco-operatives and an event

will be organised.

• ICA will hold a co-operative movement launchof the Year during itsGeneral Assembly, 14-18November 2011 in Cancun

(Mexico).

Check the ICA website

regularly for updates.

Maria Elena Chavez Hertigmet with the Director-General of the International

Labour Organisation (ILO), Juan Somavia, to discussplanning for the Year. MrSomavia stressed ICA’s roleas a key partner to the UNand how it should take aleading role.

ICA is already participating ina co-ordinating committeefor the Year through theC o m m i t t e e f o r t h ePromotion and Advance-

ment of Co-operatives(COPAC) which it chairs.

To assist in developing ICA‘sstrategic objectives andaction plan for 2012, ICA hasestablished a WorkingGroup for the IYC made upof co-operative leaders. TheGroup is consulted regularlyto ensure that ICA isc o n t r i b u t i n g i d e a s ,information, and guidance

not only to ICA's planning,but also to the overall UNplanning.

To ensure that themovement can access up todate information on theplanning, ICA has created anew page on its website— www.ica.coop/activities/iyc/ .The page provides links andinformation on the Year anda calendar of events to whichmembers and others areinvited to contribute. It isalso now issuing an e-newsbulletin, Countdown to 2012.

The opportun i ty fordiscussion amongst themembership has also beenprovided at the regionallevel. Ideas and awarenessraising occurred at theCoopera t i v e s Eu rope

General Assembly inBrussels in May as well as atthe ICA Asia-Pacific Regional

IYC 2012

Countdown to

2012 is the e-newsbulletin of the ICAproviding updates onthe preparation forthe United NationsInternational Year of Co-operatives.

Its aim is to keepmembers informedon ICA and UNinitiatives for theYear as well as toprovide informationon how co-operatives will becelebrating in 2012.

See:

www.ica.coop/

activities/iyc/

"Co-operativesare a reminder tothe international

community that itis possible topursue both

economic viabilityand social

responsibility."

UN Secretary-General

Ban Ki-moon

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2011 Global focus on youth

The United NationsInternational Year of

Youth (IYY), launched on 12August 2010, i s anopportunity for the co-operative movement todemonstrate how its uniquebu s i ne s s mode l c anempower young people.

The International Year willfocus on the theme“dialogue and mutual under-standing”. Young co-operators have been usingdialogue and exchange for along time to promote theadvantages of the co-operative model, based onthe principles of mutualunderstanding.

To attract young membersand employees to their

Beijing during the ICA Asia-Pacific Assembly (see page9). ICA Africa will jointlyhost a youth conferencewith the Lesotho co-operative movement at itsRegional Assembly and ICAAmericas is preparing aregional youth conference at

its meetings in Buenos Airesin November.

During IYY 2011 theICA wi l l update i tsinformation on youth andco-operatives and makeyouth activities more visibleon the ICA website.Information on programmesthat offer opportunities foryouth co-operators invarious movements aroundthe world will be provided.www.ica.coop/coop/youth/

businesses, co-operatives areo f f e r i n g e x c i t i n gopportunities for youngpeople to become involved.

Canadian co-operatives andcredit unions are offeringboard experience as part of internship programmes and

S p a i n o f f e r s j o bopportun i t ies in co-operatives for unemployedyouth. In South Africa,training and funding isprovided to encourageyoung people to set up andmanage youth co-operatives.

Within the ICA there is anincreased focus on youth.ICA regional assemblies areplaying host to youth eventssuch as the women’s andyouth conference held in

ICA members are also busypreparing for International

Year of Co-operatives.Some have shared theirprogress.

Japan has launched its officialnational committee website(www.iyc2012japan.coop/).and has established a co-operative national steeringcommittee comprising some50 representatives fromacross the co-operativesectors in Japan.

The National Co-operativeB u s i n e s s A s s o c i a t i o n( N C B A ) h a s t a k e nresponsibi l ity for co-ordinating the efforts of theUS co-operative community.It has established threecommi t tees—outreach ,research and policy—to plan2012 in the US. Morei n f o r m a t i o n a twww.ncba.coop/2012

Trent Bartlett, CEO of currently the only AustralianICA member, CapricornSociety Ltd.

In Finland, the co-operativemovement has partneredwith education and researchinstitutes to commenceplanning for a nationalsteering committee. Amongthe issues discussed was howto promote the growth of co-operatives nationally aswell improve resourcesavailable for co-operativedevelopment around theworld. They like others, willbe approaching theirgovernment to encouragethe formation of an officialUN National Committee.

ICA has received additionalreports that co-operativeshave started their planning inthe Netherlands, Sweden,Tanzania, amongst others.

The Canadian co-operativemovement held its firstplanning committee meetingon 5 August where itdiscussed an action plan.One of the items agreed wasthe launch of a jointCanadian Co-operativeAssociation (CCA) andConseil Canadien de laCoopération et de laM u t u a l i t é ( C C C M ) ,International Year website in January 2011. Discussionw i t h t h e C a n a d i a nGovernment to establish anof f i c i a l UN Nat ionalCommittee continues.

The Australian co-operativemovement also formed itssteering committee in May.Its fourth meeting inOctober will plan for ameeting with FederalGovernment in November2010. The Chair of theAustralian Committee is

"The UnitedStates is joining

countries aroundthe world tocelebrate the

benefitsco-operativesdeliver to the

communities inwhich theyoperate."

Paul Hazen, CEO,National Co-

operative BusinessAssociation, USA,

speaking onInternational Year of

Co-operatives

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Empowering women—International Day of Co-ops 2010

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The 88th ICA Inter-national Co-operative

Day and the 16th United

Nations International Day of Co-operatives, held this yearon 3 July, with the theme,‘Co -opera t i ve en terpr i se

empowers women’, highlightedhow the co-operative modelis able to respond towomen’s practical andstrateg ic needs . Co-operatives provide womenwith the means to raise theirliving standards by accessingdecent work opportunities,

savings and credit facilities,health, housing and socialservices, and education andtraining. They furtherprovide opportunities forwomen to participate in andinfluence economic activities.Women gain self-relianceand self-esteem through thisparticipation. Co-operativescan also contribute to theimprovement o f theeconomic, social and culturalcircumstances of women inother ways including throughthe promotion of equalityand changing institutionalbiases.

Co-operatives all over theworld took the opportunityprovided by the annual Co-operative Day to organisecelebratory events andactivities in honour of their

women members, leadersand employees. The Day wasalso an opportunity todiscuss how co-operativesm ight improve the i rstrategies for gender equity

Co-operative Union of Egypt; Vincent Lubasi, ICAAfrica’s Senior Advisor

participated in an event inNamibia; CooperativesEurope co-organised andparticipated in a conferenceon women’s employment inItaly; while Rajiv Mehta,Deputy Regional Director of ICA Asia-Pacific attendedcelebrations in Indonesia.

As a demonstration of thehigh esteem in which co-operatives are held in

countries around the world,heads of state were inattendance at many of theevents held to celebrate theInternational Day.

The President of Ethiopiapaid tribute to co-operativesand co-operative members,and awarded gold medallionsto honour high achievement.The President of Indonesiaa t t e n d e d n a t i o n a lcelebrations on 15 July whichbrought together thousandsof co-operators, while inKenya, President MwaiKibaki commended co-operatives for providing,“one of the most dynamicavenues for addressingpoverty and unemployment”.

Events also made women co-operators visible and were a

reminder that women makeup a significant proportion of the members and employeesin co-operatives.

At events in Namibia, co-operators heard that morethan 80 percent of its co-operative members arewomen. At a newsconference about the Day,Nigerian Commissioner forAgr icu l ture and Co-

operatives, Chief Enock Ajiboso, said that over15,000 co-operatives in the

and how to encourage morewomen to take up leadershiproles in co-operatives.

Around the globe, ICAmembers, co-operativeorganisations and supportersof co-operatives heldactivities ranging fromworkshops, seminars andconferences, to theatre andmusical performances, tradef a i r s a n d a w a r dpresentations.

ICA learned that its annual

International Co-operativeDay message is shared withmillions of co-operators andin a variety of languages. It isread out at many events andin many languages incountries where the co-opmovement has members, aswell as in countries where itdoes not yet have members.The message reaches out tolocal co-operators as it doesto heads of state and otherpolicy-makers.

On the ICA’s webpage forIDC 2010 (www.ica.coop/activ i t ies/ idc/2010.html )members can find ICA’smessage in English, Frenchand Spanish as well astranslations provided by itsmembers i n Basque , Japanese, Korean andPortuguese. The messages

of the UN Secretary-Generaland UN agencies are alsoavailable.

ICA representatives were onhand to help memberscelebrate IDC 2010. ICAPresident Dame PaulineGreen participated in aconference convened by theUK Co-operative Group inMilton Keynes in the UK;ICA Regional Director for

Africa, Jan-Eirik Imbsenattended a celebrationorganised by the General

IDC 2010

New UN agency for Women

The United Nations General Assembly in July 2010

announced the formation of ‘UN Women’, the new

entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of

Women in the UN, representing an historic step in

accelerating the UN’s goals on gender equity.

Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile, hasbeen appointed as its Director-General. More at

www.unwomen.org/about-un-women/

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(cont’d from page 6) State of Lagos, embraced over amillion families. In Mali

celebrations for the Dayreminded participants thatwomen comprised 40% of co-operative membership.According to Amanda CruzMelendez, Director of theHonduran Council of theSocial Sector of theEconomy (COHDESSE),Honduras has a co-operativemovement of more than 2million members—well overa quarter of the population.

E n t r e p r e n e u r s h i popportunities and access tofinancial services were citedas reasons why womenparticipated in co-operativesin Morocco and Palestine,where a number of nationaland local events were held.In Morocco, the Day was anopportunity to announce anew training centre to

promote co-operatives, inparticular for women.

Women’s participation inagricultural processing andt r a d e , f e a t u r e d i nMadagascar’s celebrations.Activities there provided anopportunity to announce theproclamation of the 2012International Year of Co-operatives.

Co-operatives remain anattractive option for womendue to the underlying valuesand principles, which support

gender equality. In a jointcelebration in Bogota,Colombia of ICA members,

12% of co-operative leaders

were women, but they madeup 41% of employees.

The ICA Gender EqualityCommittee, which promotesgender equa l i t y andintegration in the co-operative movement, hastried to track progress ingender equality by collectinggender disaggregated data onmembers and employees aswell as women in leadershipp o s i t i o n s . H o w e v e r ,information continues to besketchy with still too feworganisations able to providethe requested data so as tobe able to reach significantconclusions.

International Day of Co-operat i ves th i s yearreminded us of the potentialand challenges for women in

the co-operative movement.An ICA statement made forInternational Women’s Dayperhaps neatly sums up whyfema le empowermentthrough co-operatives isimportant: "A relationshipwith equal responsibilitiesbetween women and men isa way of putting into practiceour values and principles andto keep them alive, but it isalso essential for the co-

operative development of excellence in all fields, socialand economic".

C o n f e d e r a c i ó n d eCooperativas de Colombia(Confecoop) and Asociación

Colombiana de Cooperativas( A s c o o p ) , E x e c u t i v ePresident of Confecoop,Clemencia DuPont Cruz,s a i d w o m e n w e r eincreasingly prepared to holdleadership positions in co-operative enterprises.

I n s o m e c o u n t r i e s ,International Day focused onpromoting co-operatives toyoung people. In Kiribati,the Ministry in charge of co-operatives held an essaycontest on the theme of theDay, to encourage boys andgirls to better understandco-operatives, while in Peru,ICA member, CooperativaCREDICOOP Luz y Fuerza,organised dynamic gamesthrough which young peoplelearned about co-operativesand their principles.

The Day also reminded themovement that althoughadvances had been made inwomen’s participation indecision-making, ICA andmany of its memberorganisations had still notreached the target of 30%women in leadershippositions. And yet,increasingly we see womenin the roles of President and

Chief Executive Officer of co-operative organisations asin the case of the election of ICA’s first woman President,Dame Pauline Green.

The movement needed tomake more space forwomen's participation, saidOrganisation of Brazilian Co-operatives (OCB) President,Márcio Lopes de Freitas, inhis address to the Brazilian

Federal Senate on 5 July tomark Co-operatives Day— noting that in Brazil, only

ILO CoopAfrica team

member was successful in

c l i m b i n g M o u n t

K i l iman j a r o—A f r i c a ’ s

highest mountain—on

International Day of Co-ops

2010, and took the

opportunity to unfurl the

ICA Africa flag

Honduras celebration of

International Day of Co-operatives

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ICA Asia-Pacific Regional Assembly, Beijing 2010

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Chinese Vice Premier,

Hui Liangyu, called on

co-operatives to reform and

innovate in order to increase

economic strength and social

influence, in his openingremarks to the 9th ICA

Asia-Pacific Regional events

in Beijing (1-5 September).

Co-operatives, said Hui,

should take advantage of

their unique structure to set

appropriate targets and to

i m p r o v e s a f e g u a r d

mechanisms aimed at

realising their sustainable

development.

Hui said China attaches great

i m p o r t a n c e t o t h e

The 2010 Asia-Pacif ic

Regional Assembly with the

theme, Sustainable Innovations

– Opportunities for Co-

operatives to Grow, was

preceded by the 6th Asia-

Pacific Co-operative Forum

on the theme of Co-operatives

– The Sector of Global

Importance, and the 17th Co-

operative Government

Dialogue on the theme,

Socio-economic Development &

Co-operatives.

Sectoral and thematiccommittee meetings to

discuss various issues

relating to agriculture,

banking, consumer co-

operatives, fisheries, human

resource development,

health, research, tourism,

women and youth, were held

on 1-2 September also prior

to the Regional Assembly .

The People’s Daily Onlinereported Vice Premier Hui’s

address to the opening of

the events. The forum

served as a platform for co-

operative representatives

from more than 40 countries

in the Asia-Pacific region to

share experiences in

combating the financial

crises, said Hui. It was the

first time China had hosted

the ICA Asia-Pacific Regional

Assembly.

d eve l opmen t o f co -

operatives. He praised, ICA

member, the All China

Federation of Supply and

Marketing Co-operatives

(ACFSMC) for its work assisting Chinese farmers to

transform small-scale farms

into professional co-

operatives.

According to ACFSMC,

there are 50,000 specialised

farmer co-operatives and

more than 220,000 rural

co-operative service centres

in China and 2,600

co-operative agricultural

federations.

Regions

ICA President, Dame

Pauline Green joined

Chinese Vice-Premier Hui Liangyu (right) at

the opening of the ICA

Asia-Pacific Regional

Assembly and related

events in Beijing

Also elected were new Vice-Chairs—Ilham Nasai of Dekopin, Indonesia andKouji Ozeki of the CentralUnion of Agricultural Co-operatives, Japan.

As Chair of the YouthCommittee, Ms Kashani willserve on the ICA Asia-Pacific

New face of young co-operators in Asia-Pacific

Tahmineh Kashani of theCentral Union of Rural

and Agricultural Co-operatives of Iran succeedsTeo Say Hong as the newChairperson of the ICAAsia-Pacific Youth Commit-

tee at the 5th RegionalYouth Conference in Beijing,China.

Regional Board as the youthrepresentative.

She is keen to work moreclosely with ICA’s otherregional youth committeesand looks towards the op-

portunity to work withyouth co-operators in theregion and globally.

Tahmineh Kashani,

Chair, ICA A-P Youth

Committee

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Women’s and Youth Forum fosters solidarity

The 6th ICA RegionalWomen’s Forum held

on 2 September in

conjunction with the 5thICA Youth Conference hadthe theme, “Co-operatives:

The Sector for Empowerment of Women and Youth”.

Platforms like the ICAR e g i o n a l W o m e n ’ sCommittee for Asia-Pacific(RWC) were important foradvancing the position of women in co-operatives saidH i t o m i n T a n a k a ,Chairperson of the RWC.

Dr Chandra Pal Singh Yadav,Chairperson of the NationalCo-operative Union of India(NCUI) said women are thebackbone of society. In Asiaalmost 55% of foodproduction is undertaken bywomen and the majority of co-operative membersbelonged to agricultural co-

operatives. He noted that

NCUI represented 240million individual members inIndia but the sector needed

the vision and ambition of the younger generation toenable it to grow anddevelop. NCUI’s Women’sCommittee had made aseries of recommendationsto increase the participationof women and youth,including setting a target of one third of all positions inc o - o p e r a t i v e s a n dmembership be held bywomen. Financial andcampus co-operatives alsohad a role to play he said.

In her keynote address,Mi-yea Oh, Chairperson of iCOOP Goyang andPresident of the Mutual AidSociety For EnhancingKorean Agriculture, said thetheme of this year’sInternational Day of Co-operatives, “Co-operative

Enterprise Empowers Women”

resonated for iCOOP,because its progress overthe past decade was due in

large part to the hard work of its women leaders. Mostof the leaders in iCOOPKorea’s 76 local co-operatives are women.

Ms Oh said co-operativesmust foster solidarity to face,amongst other issues,c l ima te ch ange th a ttranscends national bordersa n d o r g a n i s a t i o n a lboundaries. Co-operativesare not only economicinstitutions for the sake of their members, but amovement in pursuit of social, cultural and economicalternatives.

ICA President, Dame PaulineGreen, also joined themeeting to share the ICAvision of co-operatives ase q u a l o p p o r t u n i t y

organisations.

“[Co-operatives]

are a movement inpursuit of social,cultural andeconomic

alternatives.”

Mi-yea OH,Chairperson of iCOOP Goyang

OH’s speech is on theICA A-P website

www.icaroap.coop

European Co-operative Society Statute assessed

The Statute for aEuropean Co-operative

Society (SCE) has had only alimited success due to legalcomplexities and lack of awareness on the regulation.These were the findingspresented in Brussels at a

seminar which reviewed theimplementation of SCE. 70representatives and expertsfrom 19 European Unionmember states participated.

The research study wasfunded by the EuropeanCommission, DG Enterprise

and Industry , and executed bya consortium comprised of Cooperatives Europe, EkaiCentre–the research centre

of Mondragon Corporationand Mondragon University,-and EURICSE, which

represented and led theconsortium. (CooperativesEurope is a foundingmember of EURICSE, theEuropean Research Institutefor Co-operative and SocialEnterprises). Hagen Henry,Chair of ICA’s Legislation

Committee also participatedin the scientific committee.

The research identified 17existing SCEs as of 8 May2010. The study highlightedthat the harmonisation effecton national co-operativelegislation had also beenrather limited.

The project provided theopportunity for co-operation

between the consortiumpartners that undertook thestudy and the European

Commission whilst involvingnational experts in thedocumentation of thecurrent state of play of national co-operative laws.As such, the study provides afoundation not only forfurther research on co-

operative law, but also foridentifying the successes of the co-operative model of enterprise. The Commissionnoted the importance of thework given the upcomingInternational Year of Co-operatives 2012.

The executive summary of the study is available fromCooperatives Europe. Thefull study of over 1000 pages

including a mapping of co-oplegislation will shortly beavailable from EURISCE .

Research Study

Executive Summary

www.coopseurope.coop

Full report www.eurisce.eu

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Presidential endorsement for ICA Americas Assembly

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The office of thePresident of the

Republic of Argentina, in adocument released on 20September, declared ICAAmerica’s forthcomingRegional Conference andAssembly to be of “nationalinterest”. The Conference,

environment and showcaset h e c o - o p e r a t i v emovement’s commitment to

environmental issues.

The Presidential declarationw a s p r o m o t e d b yConfederación Cooperativade la República Argentina(COOPERAR), a member of the ICA since 1972.

For more information on theRegional Assembly visit theICA Americas website:www.ac i amer i cas . coop /CR2010/

Co-operative Commitment to

the Preservation of the Planet

will be held on 22-26

November in Buenos Aires,Argentina.

The r e so l u t i on wasrecognition at the highestlevel of the importance of co-operatives in the nationaleconomy.

B y a d d r e s s i n g t h eenvironmental theme, ICAAmericas aims to increasethe awareness of co-operators about theimportance of preserving the

Regions

The 9 th Reg iona lAssembly for Africa is

being be held in Maseru,Lesotho f rom 11-15October 2010. The RegionalAssembly and related

meetings are co-hosted bythe Lesotho Government onbehalf of the co-operativemovement of Lesotho.

The theme for this year'sAssembly, Combating Climate

Change through Co-operatives

focuses attention on the

It is held in conjunction withthe ICA Africa Youth Forum(5-8 October), the ICAAfrica Regional BoardMeeting (10 October) andthe Ministerial Co-operative

Techn i ca l Commi t teeMeeting (MCTC) on the 14-15 October.

More information about themeeting is available on theICA Africa website atwww.ica.coop/africa/.

wor ld ’ s most urgentenvironmental challenge.

Co-operatives across theAfrican continent will sharethe i r s t r a t eg i e s f o r

responding to climatechange, and the initiativesthey have developed tomitigate against the adverseenvironmental effects.

The Assembly will also focuson the International Year of Co-operatives 2012.

ICA Africa Regional Assembly

Capacity building for African co-operative leaders

Japanese Consumers’ Co-

operative Union (JCCU)collaborated with theI n t e r n a t i o n a l L a b o u rOrganisation’s Co-operativeFacility for Africa (ILOCOOPAfrica) to providetraining for African co-operative leaders.

The aim of the training wasto introduce participants tothe business practices of Japanese co-operatives.Training was also designedto build the capacity of

African co-operatives to help

further the ‘renaissance’ of the African co-operativemovement. See full reportin the August issue of JCCU’s newsletter:h t t p : / / j c c u . c o o p / e n g / j c c u n e w s /pdf/201008_jccunews.pdf

ICA Africa is a member of the steering group of theILO COOPAfrica and madethe contacts between JCCUand CoopAfrica possible.

The CoopAfrica programme,

pursues the overarching goalof mobilising the co-o p e r a t i v e s e l f - h e l pmechanism and improvingco-operative governance,efficiency and performance inorder to strengthen co-operative capacity to create jobs, access markets,generate income, reducepoverty, provide socialprotection and give people avoice in society. Moreinformation at: www.ilo.org/coopafrica

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Rising interest in tourism co-operatives

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In many parts of the world,there is a renaissance of

interest in the co-operativemodel of enterprise.Tourism is no exception.Maurizio Davolio, ICA’s focalpoint for tourism co-operatives has reporting anincrease in requests forinformation on the tourismco-operative sector.

Within the ICA, there hasbeen a meeting of Asian co-operative organisationsinterested in tourism held inconjunction with the ICAA s i a - P a c i f i c R e g i o n a l

Assembly. In ICA Africa,information on the model of co-operative tourism will be

I ta l i ana de l Tur i smoCooperativo e Associativo,is a collaboration betweenthe three major Italian co-operative associations (andICA Italian members) AGCI,Con f coopera t i v e andLegacoop to promote co-operative tourism.

BITAC will hold the 3rd Fairfor Co-operative Tourism inFlorence (Italy) on 25-26November 2010. It willinclude a seminar on The role

of tourism for the development

of territory: Co-operation as a

resource.

You are invited to attend.See: www.bitac.it/en.

presented alongside successstories. Mr. Davolio alsorepresented the ICA at aUnited Nations Conferenceand Trade and Development(UNCTAD) seminar onsustainable tourism wherehe introduced the co-operative form of enterprisefor tourism initiatives in leastdeveloped countries.

There are of course welldeveloped and successfultourism co-operatives in anumber of countr iesincluding in Italy, where themovement is holding a co-

operative tourism fair.BITAC, the Italian fair for co-operative tourism—Borsa

The International Co-

operative Agricultural

Organisation (ICAO) held a joint seminar with ICA Asia-

Pacific on Climate Change,

Food Security and Sustainable

Agriculture, on 1 September

dur i n g t he Reg i ona l

Assembly in Beijing.

The seminar included

presentations from ICA

members, JA-Zenchu, Japan,

All China Federation of

Supply and Marketing Co-operatives (ACFSMC),

National Association of

Mongolian Agricultural o-

operatives (NAMAC), and

the Co-operative College,

UK. Wa-Kinghoma, Chair-person of the Uganda Co-

operative Alliance, discussed

the issue of fair trade for

ICAO joint seminar spotlights sustainability

African farmers, and former

ICA Director-General, Iain

Macdonald spoke about theUN International Year of

Co-operatives.

M o r e i n f o r m a t i o n :

www.agricoop.org/news/

news11.html

Consumer Co-operatives Worldwide launches new website

Consumer Co-operativesWorldwide (CCW) has

a n e w w e b s i t e :www.ccw.coop.

CCW is a sectora lorganisation of the ICA,which brings togetherconsumer co-operativeswithin the ICA membership.One of its main aims is toencourage discussion on the

crucial challenges that faceconsumer co-operatives andshare strategic information.

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International Symposium on fisheries and co-operatives

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Key challenges forfisheries in the next

decade and strategies tostrengthen the role of fisheries co-operatives werethe focus of an internationalsymposium convened by ICAsectoral organisation, theInternational Co-operativeFisheries Organisat ion(ICFO) and Korea’s National

s u s t a i n a b l e f i s h e r i e sdevelopment. The Seoul Declaration was adopted to

show the mutual will forsustainable developmentthrough co-operatives.

The Korean Prime Ministerindicated his special interestin the symposium via a videomessage. The keynotespeaker was Roger Spear of the United Kingdom.

Co inc id ing w i th thesymposium, ICFO publishedWorld Fisheries , whichprovides an overview of thekey trends, statistics andpolicy developments in 17major fishing countries.

ICFO also donated 20personal computers to fourf isheries co-operativeslocated in Bangladesh,Vietnam, the Philippines andSri Lanka to help moderniseand revitalise their activities.

Federation of Fisheries Co-operatives (NFFC), on 16 June in Seoul, Korea.

‘A New Decade! The Role of

C o - ope r a t i v e s f o r t h e

Sustainable Development of

Fisheries’, brought over 300Korean and internationaldelegates together to discussthe role of co-operatives in

Brighter future for health co-operatives in US

ICA’s sectoral organisation,

International Health Co-

operative Organisation

(IHCO) held a seminar

en t i t l ed , Co - ope r a t i v e

Opportunities for Health Care

in the USA on 21 July in

Washington DC (USA).

Speakers included IHCO

President, Dr José CarlosGuisado, IHCO Vice-

President, Dr Eudes de

Freitas Aquino, ICA Board

member, Paul Hazen and

Karen Davis, President,

Commonwealth Fund of

USA.

"In view of both the UN

Year of Co-operatives in

2012 and of the new health

care bill in USA, there aregreat opportunities for co-

operative health care in the

US," said Dr Guisado. The

seminar has already led to a

new dialogue on co-

operative healthcare among

US and international

organisations, and a Delphi

Panel is planned to further

discuss the matter among

invited experts.

Meeting papers at at:www.healthcareamerica.coop

Sectors

Delegates celebrate

the ‘Seoul Declaration’

adopted during the

ICFO international

symposium, June 2010

Dr. J-C Guisado, IHCO

President (R) and Paul.

Hazen, ICA Board

member (L)

ICA Housing Symposium: Aftermath of crisis

ICA Housing held a two-day symposium in London,

UK on 7-8 October toaddress major issues thatchal lenge the sector-Financing for Housing Co-operatives in the aftermath of

the global financial crisis andCo-operative responses to the

climate change challenge.

ICA members active in theco-operative housing sectorfrom Canada, Germany,Ireland, Italy, Sweden and theUnited Kingdom participatedactively in the symposiumand were joined by Dame

Paul ine Green, ICA’sPresident. More informationat www.icahousing.coop.

ICA’s Director-General,Charles Gould, set the stagefor discussions by reportingon the current surge in co-operative activity. ‘We aredriven by a sense of opportunity’, he said, with

public readiness to accept adifferent way—the co-operative way.

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Canadian co-operators survey paves way for 2012

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Canadian Co-operative

Association (CCA)

conducted a national survey

to measure perceptions and

awareness of co-operatives,

in preparation for the

International Year of Co-

operatives. Survey resultswill be considered when

economy and create jobs

that help support local

communities. More than

two-thirds of respondents

agree that co-operatives are

a trusted place to do

business and save members’

money. More:www.coopscanada.coop/

preparing messages and

planning activities for 2012.

One in five respondents

identified themselves as

members of a co-operative;

Seven out of 10 respondents

agree that co-operativeskeep money in the local

Credit unions saw aglobal increase in

member savings and loans

activi ty during 2009,according to the WorldCouncil of Credit Unions(WOCCU) 2009 StatisticalReport.

The trend illustrates theincreasingly important role

WOCCU commenced theannual survey in 1972.

Loans also demonstratedstrong growth, climbing tonearly USD 912 billion fromUSD 847 billion in 2008.

WOCCU has been amember of the ICA since1977.

that credit unions and otherfinancial co-operatives haveplayed through the global

recession.

Total savings for allresponding credit unions wasmore than USD1.1 trillion, a15% increase on 2008 dataand the highest level since

Surge in global credit union savings and loans

ICA members on Fortune 500 list

The 2010 Fortune Global500 list includes two

new co-operative entries:The Co-operative Group(UK), an ICA member, andCoop Switzerland.

Co-operatives featured onICA’s Global 300 list are also

found on Fortune’s 500 list.These include ICA members,Migros, Switzerland, andNationwide, USA, but alsoGerman co-operative, EdekaZentrale which ranks #34 onFortune’s list of largestemployers and #36 as fastestgrowing. Crédit Agricole of

Agricultural co-operatives are the future

Anew report published

on 15 September by theGeneral Committee forAgricultural Co-operation inthe European Un ion(COGECA), Agricultural Co-

operatives in Europe: Mainissues and trends, concludesco-operatives will becomeincreasingly important formaintaining and developingagriculture in a future that isfaced with increasinglycompetitive markets and

greater diversification of

cus tomer needs andpreferences.

The report includes issuesand trends for agriculturalco-operatives as well as alisting of the largest co-operatives by sector andsalient statistical data.

The report is available at:www.agro-alimentarias.coop/ficheros/doc/03020.pdf

France, Rabobank of theNetherlands, and CHS of theUnited States are also foundof the Fortune List this year.

Ful l l i st at : http : / /money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2010/

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Anniversaries The ICA, founded on 19

August 1895, celebrates

its 115th year of operation.

ICA Americas celebrated

its 20th anniversary on 29

June 2010. In an event held

in San José, Costa Rica,

ICA’s Vice-President for the

Americas, Ramón Imperial

underlined the important

role co-operatives were

playing in the region and the

increased recognition of co-

operatives as seen byInternational Year of Co-

operatives. Members from

Costa Rica, Puerto Rico,

México, Brazil and Peru

participated.

I C A A s i a - P a c i f i c

c e l e b r a t e s i t s 5 0 t h

Anniversary this year. The

regional office was founded

on 14 November 1960. The

office wil l publish acomprehensive history of

ICA Asia-Pacific later this

year.

ICA member organisation,

t h e A s s o c i a t i o n o f

Colombian Co-operatives

ASCOOP also celebrates

its 50th anniversary this year:

Memberupdates

Roberto Rodrigues (R)

receives honourary

medal from Márcio

Lopes de Freitas (L)

President of the

Organisation of Brazil-ian Co-operat ives

(OCB)

People Former ICA President,

Roberto Rodrigues,was honoured in a specialpresentation made duringthe 13th Brazilian Congresso f Co-operat i ves i nSeptember in Brasilia.Organisation of Brazilian Co-operatives (OCB) President,Márcio Lopes de Freitas,presented Rodrigues with aspecial medal in recognitionof his extensive contributionto the global co-operativemovement and his role inthe formation of the OCB inthe 70’s. More than 800delegates participated in thecelebration. Rodrigues wasPresident of the OCB in1985 and former BrazilianMinister for Agriculture.

Aldo Soldi, President of

ANCC-COOP, the Italiannational association of

consumer co-operatives is

the new President of Euro

Coop for 2011-2012. The

other members of Euro

Coop Presidency are Zoltán

Zs. Szöke, President of the

National Federation of

Consumer Co-operatives of

Hungary, and Thomas Bagge

Olesen, President of the

Danish consumer co-operative association FDB.

The Canadian Co-

operative Association

(CCA) has re-electedClaude Gauthier, OntarioR e g i o n M a n a g e r o f Growmark Inc, to itsPresidency.

The President of Colombia,Alvaro Uribe, awarded theOrder of San Carlos in the

Rank of Officer, toClemencia Dupont Cruz,the Chief Executive of theC o n f e d e r a t i o n o f

C o o p e r a t i v e s o f

Colombia (Confecoop) on 28 July. The distinctionwas awarded by thegovernment in recognitionof her leadership in thenat ional co-operat ivemovement.

Loïc Pelletier was electedPresident of the National

Federation of Consumer Co-operatives (FNCC)

of France on 2 September2010. He succeeds YvesZehr. Pelletier is also CEOof Co-op Atlantic andTreasurer of the NationalGroup for Co-operation.Thibous Gerard was electedVice-President, Yves Zehr,Secretary and Sinet Franks,

T r e a s u r e r .www.fncc.coop

Mr Yoshinori Yokoi is then e w P r e s i d e n t o f Z e n k y o r e n ( J a p a n )following the stepping downof Kazumi Imao at the JuneGeneral Meeting. Mr. Imaowill be Senior Advisor of theorganisation.

Janusz Paszkowski of theNational Auditing Union of Workers Co-operatives

(NAUWC) of Poland wasco-opted to the ICA Boardto replace Felice Scalvini wholeft a vacancy when he took over the position of Vice-president Europe.

UCECOM, the National

Union of Handicraft and

P r o d u c t i o n C o -

operatives of Romania,

elected a new Board at its 10

June Congress, Sevastiţa

Grigorescu was electedPresident, Cristian-Gabriel

Mateescu as Vice-President;

and Niculae Buiga as General

Secretary.

Dao Xuan Can was electedPresident of the Vietnam Co-operative Alliance

(VCA) succeeding NguyenTien Quan. Nguyen TienQuan will continue to serveon the ICA Asia-Pacific

Regional Board for theduration of his mandate.

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NewMembers

ICA welcomes new members:

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The Co-operative Union

o f S e r b i a ( C US ) represents and provides

development assistance andnetworking for co-operativesin all sectors in Serbia. In2007, CUS had 1,135agricultural co-operativemembers and more than35,000 individual members.www.zssrbije.org

C o o p e r a t i v a d e l a

Seguridad Social deAhorro y Crédito

(COSSAC) of Uruguay

services a range of membersincluding pensioners and lowto middle income micro-entrepreneurs. In 2008,COSSAC had more than

35,500 individual members.Its turnover was USD 15million (CHF 15.6 million).www.cossac.com.uy

members and a 3% traininglevy on the income of allrural and agricultural co-

operatives. In 2008, SCURArepresented over 5 millionindividual members in 8member societies.www.scura.ir (site under

construction).

Co-operative Lesotho(Coop Lesotho) marketsfarming inputs and producefor members and the farmingcommunity. They alsoprovide capacity building andadvocacy for members.Coop Lesotho has sevennon-credit union membersocieties with more than2,300 individual members. Ithas 65,000 individualmembers of credit unions.

The Norwegian Co-operative Centre wasformed by the major co-operative organisations inNorway to organise coursesand conferences and toprovide an advisory serviceo n c o - o p e r a t i v edevelopment. It has 9member societies, and 15employees—all women.www.samvirke.org

The National Association

of Labour Banks (NALB)

is a trade association

comprising 13 banks across Japan as well as theFederation of Labour Banks.It has more than 10 millionindividual members. In 2009,turnover was JPY 1,593million (CHF 19.1 million).The turnover of theirmember societies was JPY16.3 billion (CHF 19.7billion). Labour banks in Japan are co-operativef i n a n c i a l i n s t i t u t i o n sestablished mainly by tradeunions, consumer andworker-based organisations.They offer loans to individualworkers including housingloans.http://all.rokin.or.jp/english/

Supervision and Co-

ordination Central Unionof Rural and Agricultural

Co-operatives of Iran(SCURA) provides trainingand auditing to rural andagricultural co-operatives inIran who are members of the Central Organisation forRural Co-operatives of Iran(CORC). Income is derivedfrom tuition fees paid by

The currentICA

membership

statistics are:248 memberorganisations

(218 membersand

30 associatemembers)from 92countries

Death of Rochdale Pioneers’ historian

Dorothy Greaves, theperson who perhaps

knew most about theRochdale Pioneers, lost herlong battle with cancer onInternational Day of Co-operatives, 3 July 2010.

Greaves inspired co-operators from everyc o n t i n e n t w i t h h e r

understanding of the impactof the 28 ‘working men’ whowere the Rochdale Pioneers,

showing what people canach ieve through co-operation.

A warden at the RochdalePioneers Museum in the1980s and then from 1994until her health failed,Greaves spent much of herspare time researching theRochdale story. Visitors to

the museum loved herdetailed portraits of theindividuals involved in the

movement. Her research onthe Pioneers included asurvey of the graves, locatingand in one case, uncovering,burial sites that had beenlost for generations.

This research was vital toU K c o - o p e r a t i v e ,Funeralcare’s work inrenovating the graves in time

for the 150th anniversaryce l ebrat ions for theRochdale Pioneers in 1994.

Obituary

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2010

October

10-13 ICA Africa Regional Assembly, Maseru (Lesotho) -www.ica.coop/africa/ra2010/

13-15 ICA Americas Research Committee: VI Encuentro deInvestigadores Latinoamericanos de Cooperativismo, Asunción(Paraguay)

14-15 ICA Africa Ministerial Conference Technical Committee Meeting

Maseru (Lesotho)

November

21 ICA Americas Board Meeting, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

22-26 ICA Americas Regional Conference, "Co-operative Commitmentto Preserve the Planet", Buenos Aires (Argentina)www.aciamericas.coop/CR2010/

December

8-10 ICA Expo 2010, Bangalore (India): www.icaexpo.coop

8-10 ICA Board Meeting, Bangalore (India)

2011

Date to be confirmed ICA Africa Meeting of Ministers in Charge of Co-operatives:(Namibia).

May

15 Cooperatives Europe Board, Moscow (Russia)

16-17 Cooperatives Europe General Assembly, Moscow (Russia)

14-18 ICA General Assembly, Cancun (Mexico)

2012

United Nations International Year of Co-operatives:www.ica.coop/activities/iyc/

ICA Asia-Pacific Regional Assembly (Japan)

10th ICA Africa Ministerial Conference (Rwanda)

November

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