India’s Parliament has passed the National Cooperative Development Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2026, expanding the NCDC’s power to provide loans and grants directly to cooperative societies — a move the Ministry of Cooperation says will cut bureaucratic delay and give cooperatives…
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has published Voices of Cooperators, a book gathering first-hand accounts from more than 70 cooperators working across agri-food systems in the Near East and North Africa — young leaders, farmers, fisherfolk, pastoralists, food…
Palestine marked the International Day of Cooperatives with an interactive dialogue session in Ramallah, “The Reality, Challenges, and Prospects for the Development of the Cooperative Sector in Palestine,” organised by the Economic and Social Development Center of Palestine (ESDC) under…
Koperasi Sahabat Amanah Ikhtiar Malaysia (Koop Sahabat) Berhad joins ICAs growing network this quarter, bringing with it a distinct membership base: women entrepreneurs from Malaysia’s B40 income group, organised around shared capital rather than individual risk. Koop Sahabat was formally…
Nearly 500 delegates gathered in Hanoi on 24 and 25 August for the 7th National Congress of the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA), setting direction for the country’s collective economic sector for the 2026–2031 term. Held at the Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Labour…
From 1 to 4 September, 130 young cooperators, policymakers, technologists and cooperative leaders from 13 countries gathered in Hangzhou, China, for the fifth edition of the Asia Pacific Cooperative Youth Summit 5.0. Organised by ICA-AP and its Committee on Youth…
From 22 to 25 July, 23 participants representing 14 organisations from seven Asia-Pacific countries, Japan, Indonesia, India, Palestine, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines, travelled to Kampung Peruas, Raub, Pahang, for the ICA-AP Regional Immersion Programme on Cooperative Tourism: “Coop Tourism…
ICA-AP’s Committee on Youth Cooperation (ICYC) marked International Youth Day with an online gathering held from 1:00 to 3:00 PM IST on 12 August, bringing together young cooperators from across Asia-Pacific under the theme “Different Contexts, Common Aspirations” — a…
From 11 to 13 August, the ICA-AP Committee on Women brought a Training of Trainers Programme on Climate Change and Action for Women Cooperators to Kathmandu, organised with the National Confederation of Cooperatives (NATCCO), Philippines, and hosted by National Cooperative…
Those three words framed the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) Capacity-Building Workshop on Strengthening Pacific Cooperatives through Education, Training and Regional Cooperation, held in Fiji and bringing together the Committee for the Promotion and Advancement…
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