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The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) is a non-governmental cooperative organization founded in 1895 to unite, represent and serve cooperatives worldwide.The ICA is the custodian of the internationally recognised definition, values and principles of a cooperative in the ICA Statement on the Cooperative Identity.
The All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives became a member of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) on 14 August 1985. [ 2 ] Subordinate organizations
CICOPA (International Organisation of Cooperatives in Industry and Services) [2] is a branch of the International Cooperative Alliance. Founded in 1947, [3] CICOPA has a membership of 46 national and regional cooperative federations or support organizations. CICOPA is active in 30 countries, promoting worker cooperatives, social cooperatives ...
It officially launched on 31 October 2011 with the theme "Cooperative Enterprises Build a Better World". [3] United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was invited to speak at the November 2011 summit of the International Co-operative Alliance to celebrate the designation.
Gertrude Florence Polley OBE (1900 – 1982) was a British co-operative activist.. Polley began working for the International Co-operative Alliance in 1917, as personal secretary to Henry J. May, the organisation's general secretary.
The original Rochdale Principles were officially adopted by the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) in 1937 as the Rochdale Principles of Co-operation. Updated versions of the principles were adopted by the ICA in 1966 as the Co-operative Principles and in 1995 as part of the Statement on the Co-operative Identity. [1]
He is the President of the Cooperative Confederation of the Argentine Republic since 2011. He is Member of the International Co-operative Alliance's Global Board since 2013 and Deputy Vice-president of Cooperatives of the Americas since 2014. Also in 2013 he met Pope Francis during an audience he held with leaders of ICA at the Vatican.
In 1946 he was appointed as an advisor on co-operatives to the Control Commission for Germany, rehabilitating the country's consumer co-operative movement, for which in 1959 he was awarded the Cross of Merit from the Federal Republic of Germany. [1] [4] In 1951 he was appointed director of the International Co-operative Alliance, retiring in ...