As people-centred businesses, cooperatives are owned and run by their members, who have an equal say in what their organisation does and how it generates and uses profits.

Cooperatives are a tried and tested model in international development and enable people around the world to take control over their livelihoods.

In March 2016, the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) entered into a partnership with the European Commission (also known as #coops4dev?), ushering in a new phase of collaboration on strengthening the cooperative movement as development actors.

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Explore the latest key figures and cooperative legislation around the world

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MiCDP portal

Explore the Mapping International Cooperative Development Programs (MICDP) portal displaying international development projects run by Cooperative Develo

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#coops4dev Closing Event

On the 30 September 2021, #coops4dev celebrated five and half years of partnership with the EU with a Closing Event, that gathered

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Coopedia Knowledge Base

Coopedia Knowledge Base is a collaborative and open-source search engine listing resources on cooperative entrepreneurship. It aims to

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GYF21

The second edition of the Global Youth Forum – Cooperative Entrepreneurship 2021 (GYF21) was held virtually on the