Appeal for donations for Australian bushfire relief from BCCM

The bushfires raging in Australia for the past few months have been devastating. They have taken a major toll on the environment and wildlife of the country, and destroyed homes and lives in the process. Relief efforts have been ongoing, but have faced challenges due to climatic conditions that are worsening the fires.

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ICA Global Youth Forum, Kuching, Malaysia

The Global Youth Forum 2020 (GYF20) will take place from February 3-7, 2020 in Kuching Malaysia. It brings together young entrepreneurs and professionals from all around the world to offer them quality training sessions to improve their skills and knowledge.

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World Cooperative Monitor 2019

The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) and the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises (Euricse) recently released the 2019 issue of the World Cooperative Monitor (WCM), now in its eighth year.

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President Ariel Guarco’s interview at the ICA Global Conference held in Kigali

ICA President Ariel Guarco was interviewed by foreignaffairsnews.com, a Nepal based online global news portal, during the Global Conference held in Kigali in October 2019.

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ICA-AP Partnership with IRMA

In 2018, ICA-AP and the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), one of India’s premier rural management institutes, signed an MoU to collaborate on areas of mutual interest. These included research on legal framework for cooperatives and exploring work and ownership in Indian cooperatives, workshops to assert the impact of cooperatives in empowering young people and supporting youth entrepreneurship, and trainings for cooperators, among other areas.

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Second ICA-AP & KFCC Capacity Building Workshop on Sustainable Development Partnership among Credit and Banking Cooperatives was held in Korea from December 23 to 28, 2019.

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CREATHON 2020 organised by SNCF

The first Creathon 2020 was organised by the Singapore National Co-operative Federation (SNCF) on January 18 and 19 at ‘A Good Space’ at Clarke Quay 200 young individuals participated in two categories: School category for secondary school students and Open category for youth in the age group of 17-35.

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VAMNICOM celebrates its Foundation Day

The Vaikunth Bhai Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management (VAMNICOM) celebrated its 54th Foundation Day on January 15, 2020! The dignitaries invited were Shri. Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, Minister of State for Animal Husbandry, Dairy and Fisheries; Dr. T.N. Prakash Kammardi, Professor (retired), University of Agriculture Sciences, Bengaluru; and Mr. Balsubramanian Iyer, Regional Director ICA-AP.

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New member - Cooperative Work Agency, Palestine

The Cooperative Work Agency (CWA) was launched towards the end of 2017, following the approval of the Law on Cooperative.

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Research Update

The ICA-AP launched the research on Mapping of Cooperatives in December. The mapping research supported by an online questionnaire seeks to collect exhaustive, consistent and reliable data on the cooperative situation in every region and across sectors, in order to provide an accurate picture of the movement to both cooperators and external stakeholders.

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A tête-à-tête with Ms. Devika Singh who has recently joined the AP unit of the #coops4dev team.

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