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…

The global conversation on the future of the Cooperative Identity continues with the release of Discussion Draft 3 of the proposed revisions to the ICA Statement on the Cooperative Identity. Building on feedback received during previous consultation rounds, the latest…

What happens when research truly listens to practice? In a recent interview with ICA-AP, Ms. Shivali Sarna, Head of Communications and Membership Development, spoke with Dr. Paul Thambar of Monash Business School about his journey into cooperative research, one that…

Submissions are now open for the 20th ICA Asia-Pacific Cooperative Research Conference on “Transforming Cooperatives for the Future,” to be held on 6–7 October 2026 at Monash University, Australia. Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers are invited to share insights on how…

Kazakhstan has introduced a national action plan aimed at strengthening its agricultural cooperative sector through to 2029. The initiative focuses on expanding access to finance, enhancing training and advisory support, and assessing infrastructure needs to improve overall efficiency across cooperatives.…