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22 May '13

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Global NewsICA launches website for Cape Town event

The official website for this year’s biggest global gathering for co-operators has been launched.

The GALS programme teaches members about gender empowerment

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UgandaUgandan co-operative pioneers gender equality scheme

A Fairtrade co-operative in Western Uganda has pioneered a ground-breaking training scheme to help to increase gender equality throughout the region.

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Global NewsUN buys from Ethiopia's farmer co-operatives to feed local, starving people

Farmer co-operatives around Ethiopia are set to deliver one of the largest amounts of maize to a food development programme that will redistribute the food to ...

SudanSouth Sudan turns to co-operatives to help grow economy

South Sudan is troubled. Despite it gaining independence from Sudan last July, the two nations are still at odds, especially over control of the oil produced along their ...

Global Indigo selling its products at a stall

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United KingdomGlobal Indigo helps small co-ops make a difference through fair-trading

A year ago Ella Huffman and Angela Marker, two young graduates from Devon, set up Global Indigo, a small community-interest company, that supports small-scale co-operatives ...

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Global NewsFree eBook shows how co-ops empower people through finance

Find out how Co-operative Enterprises Build a Better World with the continuation of a series of free eBooks that show how co-operatives provide an ethical alternative for business ...

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Members of the Morwa Savings and Credit Co-operative with the North American visitors

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BotswanaFirst ever credit union African Women’s Forum a success

There was a lot to be learned at the first-ever credit union African Women’s Forum held in March. Twenty credit union leaders, from all across Africa, came together ...

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African co-operators helping to develop the future of the continent

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Global NewsICA opens auction to benefit African co-operatives

An auction in support of African co-operatives will kick off this year’s ICA General Assembly. The money raised will go to the ICA Africa Endowment Trust Fund, which has ...

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Global NewsAfrica Cotton Producers Form 4th FLO Producer Network

A new producer network, within Fairtrade Africa, has been created by cotton producers from Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal. They met in Dakar to set up a network which will represent the voice of cotton farmers in the Fairtrade system.

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During the week of 1-5 November 2013, you are invited to attend the ICA’s global conference and General Assembly in Cape Town, South Africa. This will be the first time in ICA’s 118 year history that it will be held in Africa. The theme of the conference is Co-operative Decade: Growing the Co-operative Movement. The programme will be built around the Blueprint for a Co-operative Decade, which aims to take co-operatives to a position of being the preferred model and as a result the fastest-growing form of enterprise by 2020. The Blueprint is available here.

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