Reports
Reports available from ICA Central Office Geneva |
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| A comparative analysis of co-operative sectors in Scotland, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland |
This report prepared by Johnston Birchall and published by the Co-operative Development Society of Scotland (CDS) aims to increase knowledge of how co-operative sectors developed in Scotland and three comparator countries. The ICA provided information and contacts for information collected on the Finnish, Swedish and Swiss co-operative movements as well as information it collected through its Global 300 project. It will be used to inform future strategy for the promotion of co-operatives in Scotland.
A summary is found at: www.scottish-enterprise.com/publications/cds-summary_findings_comparative_analysis_of_co-operative_sectors_in_scotland_finland_sweden_and_switzerland.pdf. The full publications can be downloaded at: www.scottish-enterprise.com/publications/cds-comparative_analysis_of_co-operative_sectors_in_scotland_finland_sweden_and_switzerland.pdf
CDS, November 2009. pp. 65
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| Cooperating out of child labour - Harnessing the untapped potential of cooperatives and the cooperative movement to eliminate child labour |
A joint publication of the ICA and the International Labour Organisation Co-operative Programme (ILO COOP) and the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), this report has been produced as a call to action to the world co-operative movement to join hands in fighting child labour. It demonstrates that the co-operative movement has an important role to play in eliminating child labour worldwide and provides examples of programmes and policies in place in agricultural, consumer and other co-operatives.
The report aims to assist co-operative leaders, employees and members to understand the child labour issue and ensure that co-operative business operations and supply chains are child labour free. To obtain copies, please see:
www.ilo.org/global/What_we_do/Publications/ILOBookstore/Orderonline/Books/lang--en/docName--WCMS_112449/index.htm or contact the ICA at ica@ica.coop.
ISBN 9789221222620
International Labour Organisation, 2009, 54 pp.
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| Global 300 list 2008 |
This is the third consecutive
year that the ICA publishes the Global300 list to highlight
the important role co-operative enterprises play in national
and international economies. The 2008 list shows that the 300
top co-operatives are responsible for an aggregate turnover
of 1.1 trillion USD which makes it the size of the 10th economy
of the world nearly the size of the Spanish economy. The list
also shows that co-operatives are growing in terms of turnover
14% growth over the turnover of top 300 co-operatives reported
in 2007, and the 2007 list reported a growth rate of 10% in
comparison to the first Global 300 List of 2006. See more information
on www.global300.coop or
download the publication at www.global300.coop/sites/global300.coop/files/08/G300_08.pdf.
ICA, December 2008, pp. 16
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| Global 300 Project - Global 300 list 2007, Developing 300 project and Corporate Social Responsibility - The co-operative difference. |
Three publications from the Global 300 Project launched at the International
Co-operative Alliance's General Assembly in October 2007 in Singapore.
Global 300 list 2007 lists the largest co-operatives and mutual businesses
in the world - ranked by turnover for 2005. This is the second ranking
list. The first list was released by the ICA at the Forum for a Responsible
Globalisation in :Lyon, France in October 2006. This year the work
has been expanded with the publication of two further reports - the
Developing 300 Project and Corporate Social Responsibility - The co-operative
difference.
All three reports can be downloaded from the Global
300 website. |
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| Report of the Colloquium on the Contribution of the Co-operative Sectors on Housing Development |
The Colloquium was convened to address the UN Habitat Agenda which call
for collaboration of the United Nations system and the co-operative movement
to improve shelter delivery and the management, maintenance and revitalisation
of housing stocks. It focused on the diverse housing co-operative experiences
with particular emphasis on the realities in Central and Eastern Europe
where privatisation of the housing stock has in some instances led to housing
co-operatives being transformed into condominiums. The meeting was co-organised
by the United Nations HABITAT, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
(UNECE), International Co-operative Alliance (ICA), Housing Development
Administration of Turkey (HDA) and the Central Housing Co-operative Association
in Turkey. The report is also available electronically: www.unhabitat.org/programmes/housingpolicy/documents/HS-642.pdf
ISBN: 92-1-131572-3
UN HABITAT - UNECE - ICA - HDA - TURKKONUT, 2002, 164 pp.
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