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Celebrating 60 years of ICA-AP
In 2020, we mark 60 years of ICA in the Asia-Pacific region. Our growth has been hand-in-hand with our members in the region. Over the years, ICA-AP has collaborated with members over a number of key issues – enhancing gender equality and women’s participation, youth participation, training and knowledge building, legal and policy advocacy, and business and trade enhancement. This month, we highlight the work done by ICA-AP and our members in developing human resources and highlighting key activities during the first two decades (1960-80).
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COVID-19 Response
Webinar: Post COVID-19 Response of Cooperatives in Asia-Pacific
ICA-AP is delighted to announce a webinar with ICA President, Ariel Guarco and ICA-AP President, Li Chunsheng on May 13, 2020. The webinar on the Post COVID-19 Response of Cooperatives in Asia-Pacific will bring together perspectives on cooperative response, and is for us to share our work and future actions.
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The cooperative response to COVID-19
Cooperatives from the Asia-Pacific have been at the forefront of response measures to the COVID-19 pandemic. See coop responses, needs and challenges by country.
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ICA-AP Updates
Cooperative Development Foundation (CDF)– Invest COOP Indonesia Project
Article by Mr. Robby Tulus
The aquaculture sector, where populations of sea and fresh water are cultivated under controlled conditions, plays a very important role for human consumption as well as local employment. The demand for aquaculture products, especially seaweed, milkfish, and shrimp (SMS) is very high and continues to rise as people are adopting healthier seafood-based diets.
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#GoGreen 3.0
The Go Green Campaign, started in 2018, is an initiative of International Cooperative Alliance Asia-Pacific Committee on Youth Cooperation (ICYC), to link youth and SDGs on a single platform and create an identity for cooperatives as a sustainable model for environment and society. This year, ICYC will organise Go Green Campaign 3.0 in the month of July to fit with the 2020 theme for International Day of Cooperatives (July 4, 2020), Cooperatives for Climate Change.
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Internship Experience
Anugya Chitransh joined ICA-AP in October for a 6-month internship. She shares her experience with the Regional Office in a candid post below:
I started my internship at ICA-AP's Delhi offices in October 2019, soon after I graduated from my master's programme in International Relations at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. One of my areas of interest were supranational institutions and their affect in the Asia Pacific region.
ICA-AP New Members
Climbs Life and General Insurance Cooperatives (CLIMBS), Philippines.
National Federation of People-based Cooperative Enterprises (INKUR), Indonesia
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ICA-EU Partnership Updates
Global Cooperative Entrepreneurship
A webinar on Knowledge Base Platform (KBP) was held on 8th April 2020, within the framework of ICA-EU Partnership (#coops4dev). The webinar, an initiative between Global Cooperative Entrepreneurship (GCE) programme and CoopStarter, was to share the KBP with GCE mentors and have them contribute to it. GCE mentors from Asia and Pacific and ICA-AP staff members also attended the webinar along with mentors and colleagues from other regions.
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International Day of Cooperatives: Cooperatives for Climate Action: SDG 13
Join us in celebrating the International Day of Cooperatives this 4th of July, 2020! In our commitment to the Sustainable Development Agenda, the theme this year is in support of SDG 13: Climate Action: Cooperatives for Climate Action.
GYF20 Participants Reflections- Inra Sumahamijaya, Indonesia
Legal Framework Analysis The national reports of Australia, Fiji, and New Zealand were recently completed. These and other national reports can be accessed at the Coops4dev website.
ICA-AP Mapping. The mapping research aims at collecting and publicising exhaustive and up-to-date statistics of cooperative organisations in different countries to showcase the cooperative impact and provide data for advocacy.
Country snapshots for Australia, China, Fiji, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, PNG, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vanuatu, and Vietnam are now available on the ICA-AP website.
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Announcements
World Cooperative Congress
It is with regret that due to the COVID-19 pandemic we have to postpone the 33rd World Cooperative Congress. This important event will still be held in Seoul, Republic of Korea and is now scheduled to take place between the 1st and 3rd of March 2021. The preparatory events, namely the ICA Cooperative Research Conference and the International Cooperative Law Forum, will take place between the 26th and 28th of February.*
The ICA-AP Committee on Cooperative Research invites paper proposals for the 15th ICA-AP Cooperative Research Conference, which will be held from November 25-27, 2020 in Trivandrum, India.
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