On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2015, and during a panel and debate at the United Nations in New York, on the theme of “Co-operatives: Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment”, the International Co-operative Alliance Asia and Pacific Women’s Committee presented their Resource Guide for Training on Entrepreneurship Development of Women and Gender Equality.
President Pauline Green released the Resource Guide for Training on Entrepreneurship Development of Women and Gender Equality in New York on March 10, 2015.
This publication by the International Cooperative Alliance Asia and Pacific (ICA-AP) Women’s Committee coincides with the International Women’s Day and the Beijing+20 celebrations taking place in the United Nations Headquarters.
The Resource Guide fits with Equality, the theme for the International Cooperative Day to be celebrated on July 4, 2015. The guide is an update to the ICA-ILO-COOPNET leadership training manual published in 2005.
During the nine years since the release of the manual, thousands of cooperators have been trained and more importantly provided feed-back on the contents. The updated guide comes directly from ideas, suggestions and demands of the women themselves, filtered through their trainers to the ICA-AP Women’s Committee.
A celebratory event will take place on March 30 at the Global Board meeting in Singapore in which members of the Women Committee including, Ms Masako Shinbo, Chairperson ICA- AP Committee on Women will participate.
-Provided by Balu Iyer , RD ICA(A-P)
