To commemorate the International Year of Cooperatives 2025, Heifer International Asia, in partnership with the International Cooperative Alliance Asia and Pacific (ICA-AP), launched an awareness campaign “Seeding Strength: Empowering Farmer Cooperatives,” highlighting the pivotal role of cooperatives in empowering smallholder farmers,…
The Asia-Pacific Cooperative Development Platform (APCDP) convened its all members’ meeting virtually on 22 September 2025, commemorating one year since the platform’s launch in September 2024. The meeting provided an opportunity to reflect on progress, discuss membership expansion, and finalize a…
With roots stretching back to 1886, Legacoop is Italy’s oldest cooperative association, uniting over 10,000 cooperatives and more than 7 million members under a shared vision of collective growth and solidarity. Over the years, Legacoop has built a dynamic presence…
The Fiji snapshot, originally developed in 2020 under the ICA-EU FFPA 1, offers an overview of the cooperative landscape, policy developments, and cooperatives’ contributions to the economy. In Phase 2, the snapshot has been updated with new insights and recent…
On 27 February, under the ICA-EU Financial Framework Partnership Agreement 2 (FFPA 2), ICA-AP organized a virtual capacity building training on ‘Cooperative Leadership for Social Impact’ as part of the broader theme – ‘Empowered Leadership, Thriving Cooperatives: Strengthening Governance for…
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – The International Cooperative Alliance Asia and Pacific Regional Office successfully conducted a peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing and training program under the ICA-EU Financial Framework Partnership Agreement Phase 2 (FFPA2). Themed “Telling Our Stories, Building Strong Cooperative Brands in…
The International Cooperative Alliance’s (ICA) global and regional teams – Africa, Americas, Asia and Pacific, and Europe gathered in Brussels from September 17 to 20, 2024, to kick off the second phase of the #coops4dev project. In April 2024, the ICA and the European Commission’s…
The Asia Pacific Cooperative Development Platform (APCDP) is an initiative by the ICA Asia and Pacific (ICA-AP) Regional Office to foster exchanges and collaboration among cooperative development organisations (CDOs) active in international cooperation and development. These organisations have their roots…
On 18 November 2024, under ICA-EU Financial Framework Partnership Agreement 2 (FFPA 2), ICA-AP organized a virtual capacity-building training on ‘Cooperative Governance, Challenges, and Solutions’ as a part of the broader theme – Empowered Leadership, Thriving Cooperatives: Strengthening Governance for…