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1. International Cooperative Alliance
Submitted By:- Vaibhav Gupta
Submitted To:- Dr. R.S. Pundir
International Agriculture Business Management
Anand Agricultural University, Anand, Gujarat

2. Introduction of International Cooperative Alliance
Type Cooperative Federation
Founded 1895
Headquarter Geneva, Switzerland
Area Served Global
Key People Pauline Green, President
Members 272 National Federations (latest according to 2014)

3. International Co-operative Alliance
The International Cooperative Alliance is an independent, non-governmental
association which unites, represents and serves cooperatives worldwide.
The Alliance provides a global voice and forum for knowledge,
expertise and co-ordinated action for and about co-operatives. The members of
the Alliance are international and national co-operative organizations from all
sectors of the economy, including agriculture, banking, consumer, fisheries,
health, housing, insurance, and workers. The Alliance has members from 100
countries, representing close to one billion individuals worldwide. Around one
hundred million people work for a co-operative globally. Co-operatives are
successful values based businesses owned by their members. Whether they are
customers, employees or residents, the members get an equal say in the
business and a share of the profits.

4. • In 2006 the ICA published the first major index of the world's
largest co-operative and mutual enterprises, the ICA Global
300, which demonstrated the scale of the co-operative
movement globally
• On the first Saturday of July each year, the ICA coordinates
celebrations of International Co-operative Day.
• In December 2009, the United Nations declared 2012 as
the International Year of Co-operatives.
• he ICA represents 272 co-operative federations and
organizations in 94 countries (January 2014).

5. History of the co-operative movement
• The earliest record of a co-operative comes from Fenwick, Scotland where,
in March 14, 1761, in a barely furnished cottage local weavers manhandled
a sack of oatmeal into John Walker's whitewashed front room and began
selling the contents at a discount, forming the FenwickWeavers' Society.
• There are a plethora of records of co-operatives started out as small
grassroots organizations in Western Europe, North America and Japan in
the middle of the nineteenth century, however, it is the Rochdale
Pioneers that are generally regarded as the prototype of the modern co-operative
society and the founders of the Co-operative Movement in 1844.
• In 1862 Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen founded the first credit union and his
work inspired the growth of financial co-operatives across the world.

6. Vision of Sustainable Development
• Sustainable Development is at the very core of co-operative
enterprises. This is a model of business based on ethical values
and principles whose goal is to provide for the needs and
aspirations of their members.
• Through self-help and empowerment, enhancing local
resources and capacities and reinvesting surpluses, co-operatives
play a pivotal role in responding to local
community needs and objectives.
• Instead of looking at short-term goals of maximizing profits,
co-operatives have a long-term aim of sustainable economic
growth, social development and environmental responsibility.

7. Goals:- The International Co-operative Alliance considers that
the report of the High Level Panel of Eminent People on the Post
2015 Development Agenda is, in general, a good basis to the
establishment of Sustainable Development Goals. Overall the
report identifies the main challenges and issues linked to a global
definition of the problem.
Furthermore, these goals should be considered as
interdependent in the sense that ones cannot be achieved without
others.
For example, ending poverty cannot be achieve without
creating jobs, securing sustainable livelihoods and equitable
growth.

8. Contribution:-
• Closing the 2012 UN International Year of Co-operatives, the
UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon recognized that “as a
strong partner in development, the co-operative movement
works with the United Nations every day to empower people,
enhance human dignity and help achieve the Millennium
Development Goals”
• The Rio+20 conclusions also “acknowledge the role of co-operatives
in contributing to social inclusion and poverty
reduction, in particular in developing countries”.
• Co-operative enterprises include in their day-to-day business
operations a multitude of economic, social and environmental
objectives, based on their values and principles.

9. ICA policy:- Even though co-operative enterprises contribute
every day and in almost every sector of the economy towards the
achievement of sustainable development goals, there are still
several obstacles that prevent them from fully exploring their
potential.
Unleashing the full potential of co-operatives requires,
among other measures:-
Recognition
Inclusion
Access
Participation

10. ICA Regions
• ICA Asia - Pacific
• ICA Africa
• Cooperatives Europe
• ICA Americas
Sectoral Organizations
• International Co-operative Agricultural Organization (ICAO)
• International Co-operative Banking Association (ICBA)
• Consumer Co-operatives Worldwide (CCW)
• International Co-operative Fisheries Organization (ICFO)
• International Health Co-operative Organization (IHCO)
• International Co-operative Housing Organization (ICA Housing)
• International Co-operative and Mutual Insurance Federation (ICMIF)
• International Organization of Industrial, Artisanal and Service Producers'
Co-operatives (CICOPA)

11. Principles:- The co-operative principles are guidelines by which co-operatives
put their values into practice.
1. Voluntary and Open Membership
2. Democratic Member Control
3. Member Economic Participation
4. Autonomy and Independence
5. Education, Training and Information
6. Co-operation among Co-operatives
7. Concern for Community
Voluntary and Open Membership:- Co-operatives are voluntary
organizations, open to all persons able to use their services and willing to
accept the responsibilities of membership, without gender, social, racial,
political or religious discrimination.

12. Education, Training and Information:-Co-operatives provide
education and training for their members, elected representatives,
managers, and employees so they can contribute effectively to the
development of their co-operatives. They inform the general
public - particularly young people and opinion leaders - about the
nature and benefits of co-operation.
Concern for Community:- Co-operatives work for the
sustainable development of their communities through policies
approved by their members.
Co-operation among Co-operatives:- Co-operatives serve their
members most effectively and strengthen the co-operative
movement by working together through local, national, regional
and international structures.

13. Co-operative Facts And Figure
The Co-operative Movement brings together over one billion
people around the world.
The United Nations estimated in 1994 that the livelihood of
nearly 3 billion people, or half of the world's population, was
made secure by co-operative enterprise. These enterprises
continue to play significant economic and social roles in their
communities.
Below are some facts about the Movement that demonstrate their
relevance and contribution to economic and social development.

14. Co-operatives Create And Maintain Employment
• In France, 21,000 co-operatives provide over 1 million jobs
representing 3.5% of the active working population.
• In Kenya, 63% of the population derive their livelihoods from co-operatives.
Approximately 250,000 Kenyans are employed or gain
most of their income from co-operatives.
• In the United States, 30,000 co-operatives provide more than 2
million jobs.
• In Indonesia, co-operatives provide jobs to 288,589 individuals

15. • In Colombia, the co-operative movement provides 137,888
jobs through direct employment and an additional 559,118
jobs as worker-owners in workers co-operatives - providing
3.65% of all jobs in the country.

16. Co-operatives are significant economic factors in
national economics
• In Denmark, consumer co-operatives in 2007 held 36.4% of
consumer retail market.
• In Japan, the agricultural co-operatives report outputs of USD
90 billion with 91% of all Japanese farmers in membership. In
2007 consumer co-operatives reported a total turnover of USD
34.048 billion with 5.9% of the food market share.
• In Mauritius, in the agricultural sector, co-operators play an
important role in the production of sugar, vegetable, fruit and
flower, milk, meat and fish. Nearly 50% of sugar-cane planters
are grouped in co-operatives.

17. • In New Zealand, 3% of the gross domestic product (GDP) is
generated by co-operative enterprise. Co- operatives are
responsible for 95% of the dairy market and 95% of the export
dairy market.
• In Uruguay, co-operatives are responsible for 3% of the GDP.
They produce 90% of the total milk production, 40% of honey
and 30% of wheat. 60% of co-operative production is exported
to over 40 countries around the world.

18. Large segment of the population are members
of co-operatives.
• In Canada, four of every ten Canadians are members of at
least one co-operative. In Quebec, approximately 70% of the
population are co-op members, while in Saskatchewan 56%
are members.
• In Malaysia, 6.78 million people or 27% of the total
population are members of co-operatives.
• In Norway out of a population of 4.8 million people, 2 million
are members of co-operatives.

19. • In Paraguay, 783,000 people or 18% of the population are
members of 1,047 co-operatives. These have a direct impact
on the livelihoods of over 6 million people.
• In Spain, in 2008 15% of the population or 6.7 million people
are members of a co-operative.
The International Co-operative Alliance represents close to one
billion individual members. These statistics are calculated from
the subscription formula on ICA's 271 members from 94
countries (as of 20 October 2013).
On this basis, the global representative body for co-operatives
is one of the largest non-governmental organizations in
the world today by the number of people it represents, according
to available figures.

20. • The country with the largest number of individual members
indirectly represented by the ICA is the United States with 256
million members. There are nearly 30,000 co-operatives in the US.
• The next countries are in Asia, with India following next behind the
US with 93.7 million individual members. And then Japan with 77
million individual members.
• The fourth largest number of members is in Iran with 36.9 million
individual members.
• All in all, five of the top ten countries, by membership, that the ICA
represents - are in Asia.
• Italy is the first European country with 22.5 million individual co-operative
members, represented through their organisations by the
ICA.

21. Main goals of co-operative decade strategy
This strategy intends to take the co-operative way of doing
business to a new level. At the heart of this blueprint is the “2020
challenge” which is that by 2020,
co-operatives will become:
• The acknowledged leader in economic, social and
environmental sustainability.
• The business model preferred by people.
• The fastest growing form of enterprise.

22. What is blueprint…….???
The Blueprint is a plan for the global co-operative movement
spanning the decade we are in. It outlines a strategic agenda for
the co-operative sector led by the International Co-operative
Alliance (the Alliance) and it follows up this five-pointplan with
individual strategies. It aims to:-
• Elevate participation within membership and governance to a
new level.
• Position co-operatives as builders of sustainability.
• Build the co-operative message and secure the co-operative
identity.
• Ensure supportive legal frameworks for co-operative growth.
• Secure reliable co-operative capital while guaranteeing
member control.

23. Blueprint theme
To pursue the 2020 Vision, the Blueprint strategy involves
concentrating on 5 interlinked themes, and establishing
implementation strategies in relation to each of them. The
overarching agenda for the ICA, its members and the co-operative
sector generally is laid out here:
• Elevate participation within membership and governance to a
new level.
• Position co-operatives as builders of sustainability.
• Ensure supportive legal frameworks for co-operative growth.

24. • Secure reliable co-operative capital while guaranteeing
member control.
• Build the co-operative message and secure the co-operative
identity.

25. Web References
• http://ica.coop
• http://ica.coop/sites/default/files/media_items/International%20Co-operative%
20Alliance.pdf
• http://ica.coop/sites/default/files/media_items/ICA%20Factsheet%20-
%20International%20Co-operative%20Alliance.pdf
• http://ica.coop/sites/default/files/attachments/Global300%20Report%20201
1.pdf
• http://ica.coop/sites/default/files/media_items/ICA%20Blueprint%20-
%20Final%20version%20issued%207%20Feb%2013.pdf

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