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The ICA-AP Committee on Cooperative Research invites paper proposals for the 15^th ICA-AP Cooperative Research Conference, which will be held from December 17-18, 2020 in Trivandrum, India. The conference is organized under the auspices of the ICA-AP Committee on Cooperative Research, with support from the Government of Kerala and the ICA-EU Partnership on Cooperatives in Development. The conference theme is “Confronting climate change through cooperative enterprise”. Click here to read more.

Join us in celebrating the International Day of Cooperatives this 4th of July, 2020! In our commitment to the Sustainable Development Agenda, the theme this year is in support of SDG 13: Climate Action: Cooperatives for Climate Action. Follow #Coops4ClimateAction and #CoopsDay on social media for updates on activites planned to mark the International Day of Cooperatives. Click here to read more.

Cooperatives from the Asia-Pacific have been at the forefront of response measures to the COVID-19 pandemic. See coop responses, needs and challenges by country here

We're proud to present the ICA-AP 2019 Annual Activities Report. It has been a year of workshops, seminars, conferences and other events that have helped us build knowledge, connect further with our membership and undertake dynamic work furthering co-operative development! We're thankful to everyone who has been part of this journey, and to those who have kindly contributed articles for the Report.

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we highlight the importance of ‘coming together,’ now more important than ever before. The COVID-19 pandemic has made a number of points clear: we are all more intricately connected to each other, we are all dependent on each other for our basic needs, and current structures are not fulfilling our socioeconomic needs. Click here to read more