Post Timelines

In March 2016, the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) entered into a partnership with the European Commission (also known as #coops4dev🌍 )

ILO and ICA organised a joint conference on ‘Cooperatives and the Future of Work’ in Geneva.

ICA holds the first edition of its Global Youth Forum on Cooperative Entrepreneurship in Sarawak, Malaysia.

ICA moves its headquarters from Geneva to Brussels, Belgium establishing itself as an international non-profit association.

The UN declared 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives, honouring the contribution of cooperatives to socio-economic development. The movement celebrated with a World Cooperative Congress in Manchester.

ICA elects Dame Pauline Green as President, who had already served as a British MEP and chief executive of the UK’s Cooperative Union.

The Statement on Cooperative Identity was included in the ILO Promotion of Cooperatives Recommendation 193, which provides an internationally agreed template.

The United Nations adopts a set of guidelines aimed at creating a supportive environment for the development of cooperatives around the world.

The Statement on the Cooperative Identity was adopted at the 31st World Cooperative Congress. The seventh principle, Concern for Community, was adopted.

ICA establishes four regional offices in Africa, Americas, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe to help meet the challenges of a globalised, decentralised world.

ICA moves its headquarters from London, UK – its base since 1895 – to Geneva, Switzerland – a city which is home to a number of key international bodies.

The Cooperative Principles were modified for a second time, introducing principle #6: Cooperation Among Cooperatives.

The ICA is one of the first three non-governmental organisations in the world to be granted consultative status with the United Nations.

International Co-operative Day is an annual celebration of the co-operative movement and is observed each year on the first Saturday in July.

The Cooperative Principles are reviewed for the first time at the ICA’s 15th World Cooperative Congress in Paris.

While its members from around the world held a range of different political views, the ICA maintained its firm commitment to peace and democracy by remaining politically neutral.

The first Congress ran from 19-23 August, chaired by ICA president Albert Henry George. A resolution officially created the ICA and a provisional central committee was appointed.