International Development
The Co-operative Movement is one of the largest organised segments of civil society with over 800 million members, and plays a crucial role across a wide spectrum of human aspiration and need. The Government should work with the Co-operative Movement and its international partners to set up a co-operative agency for international development to help build modern and effective movements in the developing world.
Latest articles on International Development
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Lend With Care, supported by the Co-op (25 Oct 2011)
Labour Party activist and international development and women’s rights campaigner Lee Webster describes an innovative new scheme from Care International supported by the Co-operative Group. Clemence Akouavi Akpassonou is a 36-year-old hairdresser from Benin, in West Africa. She’s married with 3 three children, and for the past seven years she has been running her own [...]
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Sewn Up: a Co-operative Party international campaign (23 Sep 2011)
General Secretary Michael Stephenson announces our new campaign to support a women’s co-operative in South Africa – Sewn Up. During my trip to South Africa last summer, I visited a number of co-operatives in Ivory Park, a township near Johannesburg. The one that really inspired me was the Kopano Women’s Sewing Co-operative. Like the other [...]
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London manifesto: Ethical London (20 Jul 2011)
The Co-operative Party is consulting on its manifesto for the 2012 Greater London Authority elections. We would welcome your ideas and suggestions – please use the comment section below to let us know what you think. The Co-operative Party has been a champion for Fairtrade and trade justice in London. More broadly, the co-operative movement [...]
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ConDem slashing support for Fairtrade & foreign aid (12 Aug 2010)
Two government departments have been apparently spared from the Government’s ruthless programme of cuts. They are of course the Department for Health and the Department for International Development. You could be forgiven for thinking that maintaining Labour’s high level of funding would protect these two vital areas from reductions in the scope of their services. [...]
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Douglas Alexander: International development is both a moral cause and a common cause (11 Sep 2009)
The following is a summary of the speech I’ve just given to Co-operative Party Conference in Edinburgh. The Co-operative Party has a long and proud history and a strong and vital association with the Labour Party. The creation of the Department for International Development and the international leadership that Britain has shown over the last [...]
