The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) has started engaging with the United Nations on a roadmap for next year’s International Year of Cooperatives.
As part of this, ICA director-general Jeroen Douglas and director of policy Joseph Njuguna met with UN representatives at the organisation’s New York HQ on 29-30 January.
During their visit, Douglas and Njuguna met with the chief of the Social Perspective on Development Branch, Wenyan Yang, the coordinator of cooperative issues at the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (Undesa), Andrew Allimadi; and counselor at the Permanent Mission of Mongolia to the UN, Ulziibaaya Vangasuren, who will work collaboratively to plan the events for next year.
They proposed launching the year during the ICA Global Conference scheduled for 25-30 November 2024.
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