COMMITTEE FOR THE PROMOTION AND ADANCEMENT OF COOPERATIVES

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COPAC is a successful and on-going partnership between representatives of the cooperative movement, farmers´ organizations, cooperative development agencies, and the United Nations and its agencies. Members work together on equal terms to promote and coordinate sustainable cooperative development through policy dialogues, technical cooperation and information, and concrete collaborative activities.

	International Day of Cooperatives, 5 July 2008	Theme: "Confronting Climate Change through Cooperative Enterprise" -- Information to be soon be available.
	New publications of interest	FAO: SARD and Farmers' Organizations, Policy Brief No. 12, 2007 -- Français -- Español ILO COOP Fact Sheet: Cooperatives and Rural Employment, 2007 World Bank Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development
	2007 United Nations Secretary-General's Report on Cooperatives	"Cooperatives in social development" A/62/154 (pdf) "Rôle des coopératives dans le développement social" A/62/154 (pdf) "Las cooperativas en el desarrollo social" A/62/154 (pdf) Arabic (pdf) -- Chinese (pdf)-- Russian (pdf)
	UN Habitat Governing Council Resolution on Women's Land, Property Rights and Access to Finance supports Cooperatives	Access to finance through cooperatives; promoting housing cooperatives; and the role of cooperatives in providing voice (26 April 2007)
	ILO-COPAC Publication: Guidelines for Cooperative Legislation by Hagen Henry	Download pdf version
	5th Meeting of Agencies involved in Cooperative Development: Tsunami Reconstruction, 24-26 January 2006, Colombo (Sri Lanka)	Agenda Report on Reconstruction Activities Background information on the meeting Presentations now available (31 January 2006)
	UN Handout on Cooperatives	"Cooperatives at Work" (published by the United Nations Departement for Public Information) (pdf)
	Global Cooperative Campaign Against Poverty	... a call for action to the world co-operative movement to join hands in fighting poverty ...
	Policy Instruments on Cooperatives	Statute for a European Cooperative Society UN Guidelines on Cooperatives -- Resolution A/RES/56/114 ILO Recommendation 193 Concerning the Promotion of Cooperatives

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Updated: 27 February 2008