International Day of Cooperatives

On July 1, millions of people around the world celebrated the International Day of Cooperatives, the event that annually recalls the values ​​and principles that characterize this business model. On this occasion, the objective was to highlight the important contribution of cooperativism to sustainable development. According to the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA), the cooperative movement “has been a forerunner of sustainable development and the objectives that the United Nations has established in the 2030 Agenda are part of the DNA of cooperatives”.

The International Day of Cooperatives is celebrated annually on the first Saturday of July to highlight the contribution of the cooperative movement in the search for solutions to the main problems addressed by the United Nations.

In 1995, the UN assembly established this event and since then, together with the ICA, the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Farmers Organization (WFO), select each year the theme that motivates the celebration.