The ICA-AP Committee on Youth Cooperation (ICYC), represented by its Chairperson, Atty. Dulce Bustamante-Delmo, participated in the International Forum on Cooperation in Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic, Russia held from September 18 to 22. Joining Atty. Dulce were Mr. Abubakar Sadiq Labaran,…
On September 1, 2024, the Malaysia Business Office (MBO) Council held its meeting in Kunming, China, with 16 members from four organizations in Malaysia, Japan, Korea, and China, including the Regional Director of ICA-AP, Mr. Balasubramanian Iyer. Additionally, four members…
The International Cooperative Allianceâs (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 Commissionâs…
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 September 18, 2024, the project “Youth in Cooperatives as Key Drivers of Digital Transformation in Local Communities â YOUCOOL” was officially launched in Hanoi, Vietnam. The project is a collaboration between the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA) and HaliĂŠus (the…
In a move signalling a new era of bilateral cooperation, the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives (ACFSMC) and the National Association of Cooperatives and Other Forms of Economic Communities of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NACOFEC) signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement in Beijing on…
Bangkok, Thailand: A comprehensive training program on promoting sustainable agriculture took place from August 1-13, 2024, in Thailand. Representatives from seven countriesâBangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailandâparticipated in the program. The diverse backgrounds of the participants enriched the…
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) of the Government of Japan has collaborated with the International Cooperative Alliance, through its Asia-Pacific regional office, to implement the âCapacity Building Project for Agriculture Cooperative Sector in Asia and Africa (CBC…
The ICA-AP Committee on Cooperative Research (CCR) hosted the 10th Coop Colloquium on 23 August 2024, continuing its efforts to strengthen the academic dialogue amongst researchers on cooperatives across the Asia-Pacific region. This edition focused on the theme of “Harmonizing Cooperative Legal…
The Food and Agriculture Organizationâs (FAO) Regional Office for the Near East and North Africa (NENA) in partnership with ICA Africa and ICA-AP are organizing a Regional Dialogue for Cooperative Development in the NENA Region which serves as a follow-up…