Cooperatives & Communities
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Hoima City: Members join forces to revive local cooperative business
HOIMA CITY, June 11, 2025 –– Members of Ageteraine Farmers’ Cooperative Society Limited in Hoima City have pooled resources to connect electricity to their maize processing facility, breathing new life into a…
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First cooperative feedlot to be inaugurated in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, June 10, 2025 –– On June 12, Argentina’s first cooperative feedlot will open its doors, located in Humboldt, Santa Fe. This confined area intended for intensive cattle fattening in pens will…
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Bunyoro sugarcane farmers appeal to Museveni for Shs 50bln support
MASINDI, June 10, 2025 – Sugarcane farmers from the Bunyoro Sub-region have appealed to President Yoweri Museveni to capitalise their soon-to-be-established Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisation [SACCO] with a grant of Shs…
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New ICA Working Group on Cooperative Cultural Heritage has ambitious plans for 2025
BRUSSELS, June 8, 2025 — The International Cooperative Alliance [ICA] has created a Global Working Group on Cooperative Cultural Heritage [CCH-WG] as part of its efforts to identify and make known the…
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Rwampara district leaders sensitised on enhancing private sector development
RWAMPARA, June 8, 2025 – Officials from the Ministry of Local Government (MoLG) have engaged leaders in Rwampara District on strategies to promote Local Economic Development (LED), in line with the recently…
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Jordan adopts key amendments to Cooperative Law with ILO support
AMMAN, June 7, 2025 – – The Jordanian Senate has approved key amendments to Cooperative Law No. 18 of 1997, marking a major milestone in the country’s efforts to modernise its cooperative…
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Japan’s House of Representatives Adopts Resolution to Promote Cooperatives Ahead of 2025 International Year of Cooperatives
TOKYO, June 7, 2025 — Japan’s House of Representatives has officially adopted a resolution calling for the active promotion of cooperatives as the world prepares to mark 2025 as the International Year…
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Museveni launches NDP IV to drive Uganda’s economic transformation
KAMPALA, June 7, 2025 — President Yoweri Museveni has officially launched the Fourth National Development Plan [NDP IV], a bold and strategic blueprint aimed at addressing Uganda’s most pressing development challenges and…
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ICA & CICOPA urge Coop Solutions for Fair Work
GENEVA, June 6, 2025–– During the 113th International Labour Conference hosted recently by the International Labour Oragnisation [ILO], the International Cooperative Alliance [ICA] and International organisation of industrial and service cooperatives [CICOPA]…
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Affirmative action for the deaf in PDM implementation urged in Lira
LIRA CITY, June 6, 2025 – Persons with disabilities [PWDs], particularly the deaf community in Lira City, are reportedly not benefiting from the Parish Development Model [PDM], prompting calls for inclusive measures…
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