Research Initiative on the role of cooperatives

This initiative will provide valuable data and information that can be used by national governments and cooperative movements to integrate cooperative concerns into national poverty reduction strategies. By providing data and information on the role of cooperatives in creating employment and providing social protection, the project will help the ILO to support its Decent Work agenda in the field of job creation. Immediate objective At the end of the project, cooperators and decisions makers, and their development partners, will have a solid and essential body of evidence, data and knowledge on the contribution of cooperatives to decent work and job opportunities. Methodology The project constitutes a piece of essential research to provide the necessary underpinning knowledge on the role of cooperatives and other social economy organisations in the expansion of decent work and job opportunities. The final product of the project will be a publication that summarizes the findings, conclusions and recommendations of the studies, including web-publications. It is worth mentioning that this initiative is a direct follow-up to the discussion on cooperatives statistics held in October 2013 at the 19th International Conference of Labour Statisticians which requested the ILO to further work on statistics of cooperatives.

Project symbol

GLO/13/37/JCU

Admin unit

EMP/ENTERPRISE

Start date

01/04/2014

End date

30/03/2020

Total allocation

449773

Total expenditure

Status

Closed

449773

Development Partners

Japanese Consumers' Cooperative Union

Country/Countries

Global

Outcomes

Promoting sustainable enterprises