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COPAC Member Organizations and Contacts

Report on the Consultation Meeting of UN Guidelines 1997
COPAC Guidelines Aimed at Creating a Supporting Environment for the Development of Cooperatives 1998
United Nations Secretary-General Report: Status and role of cooperatives in the light of new economic and social trends (A/54/57)
Update on Guidelines Elaborated by COPAC, 2000

• Message from the International Co-operative Alliance ICA: "Co-operatives and Employment Promotion" (PDF format)
• Message de l'Alliance Coopérative Internationale: "Coopératives et Promotion de l'Emploi" (PDF format)
• Mensaje de la Alianza Cooperativa Internacional: "Cooperativas y fomento del empleo" (PDF format)
• Message of the United Nations Secretary-General: "On International Day of Cooperatives, Annan highlights movement's role" (link to UN web site)
• "Annan rend hommage au mouvement coopératif à la veille de la journée internationale des coopératives"(link to UN web site)
• Message of the Cooperative Branch of the International Labour Office ILO
• Cooperatives's Role in Food Security - FAO’s Perspective
• COPAC Open Forum: "Decent Work: Can cooperatives make a difference?"

• COPAC Contributes to Discussion on Policy and Cooperative Legislation
• Cooperatives's Role in Food Security - FAO’s Perspective
  
• Public Policy and Co-operative Legislation - Message from the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA)
  
• ILO to Revise Standard on the Promotion of Cooperatives
  ILO COOPREFORM Assists Policy Makers Create a Favourable Climate for Cooperative Development

• Cooperatives's Role in Food Security - FAO’s Perspective
  
• Message from the International Co-operative Alliance ICA
  
• Farmers' Cooperatives in a Global Economy
  
• Building cooperative leadership for a competitive setting - Message from the Cooperative Branch of the International Labour Office (ILO)

• Cooperatives and Food Security: FAO´s Perspective/Les coopératives et la sécurité alimentaire: L’optique de la FAO
  
• Farmers Since Rio: The contribution of farmers´ organizations towards sustainable development (Excerpt from the IFAP publication)
  
• Message from the ILO Cooperative Branch: 3rd UN International Day of Cooperatives and 75th International Co-operative Day
  
• Message of the UN Secretary-General

• Message from the Committee for the Promotionand Advancement of Cooperatives COPAC
  
• Message from the International Co-operative Alliance ICA
  
• Message from the International Federation of Agricultural Producers IFAP
  
• Message of the United Nations Secretary-General
  
• Press Kit Prepared by the International Co-operative Alliance ICA
  
• UN Celebrates 2nd International Day of Cooperatives, 1 July 1996

• COPAC Open Forum: Decent Work: Can cooperatives make a difference?, 28 June 2000, Geneva (Switzerland)
  
  
  • Abstracts
  • Synopsis of Meeting and Texts of Presentations
  
  
  
• COPAC Open Forum: Successful Cooperative Development Models in East and Central Europe, 26-27 October 1999, Berlin (Germany)
  
  • Agenda and Presentations
  • Report (in PDf format)
  
  
  
• COPAC Open Forum: Cooperatives and Communications Technology, 2 December 1998, Montevideo (Uruguay)
  • Agenda and Presentations
  • Background Paper on Cooperatives and Communcations Technology

COPAC Information Resources

COPAC List of Publications
• COPAC Report: The Contribution of Cooperatives to the Implementation of the World Summit for Social Development Declaration and Programme of Action: Conference Room Paper for the First Session of the Preparatory Committee for the Special Session of the General Assembly on the Implementation of the Outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and Further Initiatives, New York, 17-28 May 1999.
  
• Cooperatives, Farmers´ Organizations and Sustainable Development Summary Report of COPAC Open Forum, Copenhagen, 1995
  
• International Technical Meeting on Capital Formation, Rome, 1995

Member Publications on Cooperatives

• ICA List of Publications
  
• FAO News--Analysis--Reports--Publications
  
• ILO List of Publications
  
• UN Documents--Publications--Reports on Cooperatives
  UN Secretary-General's Report A/54/57

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Updated: 19 February 2001