Fostering social justice, decent work and economic democracy. From the Americas, for a global commitment
In November 2023, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/78/175, proclaiming 2025 as the International Year of Cooperatives. On 19 June 2024, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/78/L.71, setting out the modalities for its launch, which is celebrated under the theme "Cooperatives build a better world”. The resolution encourages all UN Member States, the UN system and stakeholders to use this year to promote cooperatives' contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In the Americas region, from Canada to the austral Patagonia, cooperatives play a critical role in promoting social inclusion, reducing poverty, and strengthening local economies. Cooperatives are organizations and companies present in all economic sectors, they create employment, generate networks of goods and services of community interest and they do so without privatizing the profit. The cooperative production model is also an associative tool that strengthens cluster initiatives and other initiatives of territorial productive articulation, promoting the creation of "business ecosystems" that can contribute to stabilizing economic growth.
This joint hybrid Conference between the Permanent Mission of Chile to the United Nations, and the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) Americas Regional Office seeks to increase public awareness of the contribution of cooperatives to sustainable productive development, strengthening exchange and collaboration between cooperatives, the governments of the region and the United Nations System. Likewise, experiences will be shared on the role of cooperatives in promoting the productivity of the territory where they are developed.
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