The Second ICA-AP Cooperative Registrars’ Forum on “Creating Enabling Legal Framework and Policies to Promote Sustainable Development of Co-operatives in the 21st Century,” will be held from April 16-19, 2019, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The Theme for the...
A four-member team consisting of representatives from ICA-AP and the Institute for the Development of Agricultural Cooperation in Asia (IDACA), visited Thailand (February 14 and 15) to assess the impact of the ICA-MAFF (Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and...
Graduate students specialising in Cooperative Management at Gandhigram Rural Institute (GRI) visited the office of the ICA-AP on February 20th. The GRI, established in 1956, is a deemed University, controlled and funded by the Ministry of Human Resource...
From February 26- March 1, 2019, the Imus Cooperative Federation (ICF) conducted a benchmarking activity with University and Youth Cooperatives in Indonesia. This activity was organized through the efforts of the ICA Committee on Youth Cooperation (ICYC)...
Kelantan is a rural state in the northeast of Peninsular Malaysia. Muslims make up the majority community and the GDP per capita is only $3,500, making it the poorest of the 13 states in Malaysia. Over the years, many young people have gone to big cities...
(This article originally featured on nz.coop. It has been slightly modified for purposes of the newsletter.)
Prime Minister Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern has praised the initiatives taken by the New Zealand co-operative sector to help meet the United Nations’...
The “Global Youth Forum - Cooperative Entrepreneurship,” will bring together young entrepreneurs and professionals to improve their knowledge about co-operatives, learn how to start up or develop co-operatives and give them an opportunity to share...
The pilot edition of Coopathon in April 2018 saw over 100+ young persons from across the southern Indian states compete at the country’s premier institute - Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode.
With a vision to highlight the role of co-operatives...