The International Cooperative Alliance Asia and Pacific (ICA-AP) Committee on Cooperative Research (CCR), in collaboration with the ICA-AP Committee on Women, successfully organized the 17th edition of the Coop Colloquium as a two-part webinar series on 8 April 2026 and…
The International Cooperative Alliance – Asia and Pacific (ICA-AP) has released a new Country Snapshot on Thailand, capturing the scale, structure, and evolution of one of the region’s most established cooperative movements. With origins dating back over a century, Thailand’s…
The ICA-AP Committee on Women is pleased to launch a regional decadal study, “Engendering Cooperative Data in the Asia-Pacific Region: Membership, Leadership and Institutional Enablers.” Commissioned under the JCCU Gender Project with support from the Japanese Consumers’ Co-operative Union (JCCU),…
On 8 April 2026, a delegation from the Department of Cooperation at The Gandhigram Rural Institute (GRI) – Deemed to be University, visited the International Cooperative Alliance – Asia and Pacific (ICA-AP) office in New Delhi. The group comprised 25…
The 15th edition of the Coop Colloquium was held on 19 August 2025, bringing together cooperative leaders, researchers, practitioners, and youth from across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Organised by the ICA-AP Committee on Cooperative Research (CCR) in collaboration with…
Due to multiple requests, we have extended the abstract submission deadline for the 19th ICA Asia-Pacific Research Conference, being held from 23 to 25 November 2025 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The new deadline is 31 July 2025. Organized by…
In the picture above, from left to right: Dr. Sidsel Grimstad (Asia and Pacific), Professor Jessica Gordon-Nembhard (Americas – North), Professor Cynthia Giagnocavo (Global and Europe), Professor Isaac Nyamongo (Africa), Dr. Marcelo Vieta (Americas – North and South), and Dr…
On 29 April, the ICA-AP Committee on Cooperative Research hosted the 13th COOP Colloquium, bringing together over 90 participants from across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. Themed “Focus on Research Methods: Using Comparative Case Studies in Cooperative Research,” the session…
On 25 February 2025, the ICA-AP Committee on Cooperative Research (ICCR) organized the 12th Coop Colloquium in collaboration with Cooperative Housing International (CHI) and Development Alternatives (DA). It focused on Affordable and Sustainable Housing and brought together experts, policymakers, researchers,…
Originally developed in 2019 under the ICA-EU Partnership Program Phase 1, the country snapshots offer an overview of the cooperative landscape, policy developments, and key contributions to the economy in each country. In Phase 2, the Vietnam and India snapshots…