ICA Coop - News
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New Director-General for the International Co-operative Alliance
The International Co-operative Alliance has named Charles Gould as Director-General. Mr. Gould comes to the ICA after serving as Chief Executive Officer of Volunteers of America in the United States, a Washington-based health care, housing, and human services organisation, where he provided strategic leadership to 16,000 full-time staff and directed USD $1 billion in annual turnover. In announcing the selection, Dame Pauline Green, ICA Board President, said "The ICA Board recognised, with the United Nations declaration of 2012 as the International Year of the Co-operatives, the need for a leader who can successfully use this platform to communicate the co-operative value. Charles Gould has shown he has both the passion for a vital mission and the business knowledge to grow an organisation to scale." Charles Gould will follow Iain Macdonald, who served as Director-General during the past eight years and, in anticipation of the changing economic environment, positioned the world co-operative movement to take its proper place in the global economy. Read the ICA Press Release - International Co-operative Alliances names Charles Gould as Director-General in English, Español and Français.
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ICA Digest 69 - English Edition
The ICA Digest 69 - English edition - is now available as a PDF to download or as an on-line e-book. This issue announces two major international co-operative celebrations - the International Day of Co-operatives (3 July) and the International Year of Co-operatives 2012. Articles on the ICA's influence on policy-makers are also included - highlighting the important work that ICA undertakes to promote and ensure co-operative growth. Articles on financial co-operatives demonstrate, however, that there are still battles to be won. There is also information on the ICA and the movement's response to the Haiti disaster. The Digest also carries information on leadership changes at the ICA and in its membership.
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International Day of Co-operatives - Día Internacional de Cooperativas - Journée internationale des coopératives (3 July/juilio/juillet 2010)
'Co-operative enterprise empowers women' - 'Las empresas cooperativas empoderan a las mujeres' - 'Les entreprises coopératives autonomisent les femmes'
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International Women's Day, 8 March 2010
Statement from the ICA President and Chair of the ICA Gender Equality Committee - "Equal rights, equal opportunities: Progress for all." - is available now in English and Spanish. See also CoopAfrica brochure on women and co-ops in Africa.
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ICA and Haiti Assistance Update
ICA is mobilising its members and partners around the world to provide emergency relief and reconstruction assistance to co-operators in Haiti following the devastating earthquake of 12 January 2010. It is co-ordinating efforts to obtain information on co-operators in Haiti and will be making this available as soon as possible. Co-operative movements have already taken action to bring emergency relief and the ICA and others are making appeals to support longer-term co-operative reconstruction efforts. Read full press release. - See updated information including the first commitments made to the ICA Co-operative Reconstruction Fund and information that the Israeli relief team have found and are providing medical assistance to several members and staff of ICA member, Conseil National des Coopératives CNC (National Co-operative Council) located in Port-au-Prince. .
