image credit: rawpixel.com
The following research activities were undertaken by ICA-AP as part of the ICA-EU partnership to improve knowledge on cooperatives, share information and promote capacity of cooperatives.
The research on Mapping of Cooperatives launched at a full scale in the Asia and Pacific region
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. In the Asia and Pacific region, Iran and Philippines were covered in the pilot phase. The reports for the two pilot countries have been finalised and will soon be available for public view through the #coops4dev website. We aim to cover as many countries as possible and hope that our members will support us in carrying out the research on mapping of cooperative statistics in their respective countries.
Progress on country snapshots: The status of cooperatives in four countries - Papua New Guinea (PNG), Fiji, New Zealand, and the Philippines were mapped through secondary research. The key parameters included, contribution of cooperatives to the national economy, sectoral distribution of cooperatives, genesis and evolution of cooperatives, historical and current laws on cooperatives, and association of national cooperatives with the international cooperative movement and ICA, amongst others. The country snapshots for nine countries are available on the ICA AP website for public view.
