The 20th ICA Asia-Pacific Cooperative Research Conference was held on 6 and 7 October 2026 in Melbourne, Australia, bringing together 64 scholars, practitioners, policymakers and cooperative leaders from across the region and beyond. Supported by the ICA-EU Partnership Programme, it…

Across Ladakh’s mountain communities, women are building livelihoods and shaping the future of their cooperative. From 11 to 15 October 2026, ICA-AP Regional Director Mr. Balasubramanian Iyer and his colleagues, Ms. Shivali Sarna and Ms. Nitya Shukla, visited Ladakh at…

The ICA-AP Trade and Business Committee is participating in the 9th China International Import Expo (CIIE) 2026, alongside the International Cooperative Exhibition and Capacity Building Training Programme on Digital Trade for Cooperatives, taking place at the National Exhibition and Convention…

The Díli Regional Cooperative Conference and Ministerial Dialogue 2026 brought together government representatives, cooperative leaders and regional partners in Timor-Leste from 1 to 4 October. Held under the theme “Empowering Communities, Connecting Nations,” the conference focused on strengthening cooperatives as…

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…

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…

HANGZHOU, China, September 2026 The International Cooperative Alliance Asia and Pacific (ICA-AP), through its Committee on Youth Cooperation, is organizing the fifth edition of the Asia Pacific Cooperative Youth Summit (APCYS 5.0) from 1–4 September 2026 in Hangzhou, China. It…

Over 160 participants from across Asia and the Pacific and beyond logged on 21 July for the first session of ICA-AP Committee on Credit and Banking (ICCB)’s new webinar series, Cooperative Finance for the Green Transition, which opened with a…