22 Regional Conference of Cooperatives of the Americas
November 4 and 5, 2021
About the event
Rebuilding better together with the principles and responses of cooperatives of the Americas to the crisis generated by COVID-19.
The 22 Regional Conference of Cooperatives of the Americas that will be held on November 4 and 5, 2021 will be the first 100% virtual due to COVID-19 Pandemic and the correlated crisis that it has generated.
The global crisis derived from the pandemic is a holistic, systemic one: it began affecting the health sector, but immediately manifested its consequences in terms of employment, migration, environment, social cohesion, economic systems, finance: it is the deepest crisis since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The cooperatives of the Americas and the entire system that we represent responded mobilizing and putting into action the cooperative values and principles, namely our identity, but also our best features: resilience, innovation, member services, financial and social assets.
Hence, from these elements and actions we want to restart, giving our contribution to the global agenda for recovery: to the UN “People, Planet, Prosperity” Agenda, which is also the G20 Agenda as well as the one of the European Union, but advocating it with our models, our proposals and tools in order to draw economic models and post-pandemic societies to be + inclusive, + sustainable and that could truly benefit people and their territories.
22 Regional Conference of Cooperatives of the Americas - Schedule
- November 4.
The impact of the crisis and the RESPONSES of the cooperatives of the America, moving from its cooperative values and principles
08:00 - 08:15
Opening and Concept of the event
08:15 - 08:30
Cooperatives of the Americas facing the PANDEMIC crisis: representation, integration, partnerships
Graciela Fernández -
President Cooperatives of the Americas
8:30 - 9:30
KEYNOTE - The COVID impact and the economic and social crisis generated at Regional and Global level
Alicia Barcena - Executive Secretary UN ECLAC
Carlos Alvarado - President of Costa Rica
10:00 - 10:15
Cooperative values and principles: 33 world cooperative Congress
Ariel Guarco -
President International Cooperative Alliance
10:15 AM - 13:00 PM
The REACTIONS of the cooperative movement moving from its values and principles
PARALLEL SESSIONS: 9 thematic axes, up to 15 workshops with multiple speakers and case studies to analyze the responses of cooperatives to the crisis generated by COVID-19
- November 5.
Our contributions and priorities: the PROPOSALS of the cooperative movement of the Américas, as ways to to be worked together with our partners
08:00 - 08:15
Opening and objective of the day; Reports from the previous day parallel sessions
Danilo Salerno
Regional Director, Cooperatives of the Americas
08:15 - 08:45
Reports from the first day
8:45 - 9:30
KEYNOTE
Climate change, food systems and migrations: causes, links, and solutions from the regional partners’ agenda
Julio Berdegué - Deputy General Director and
Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean / FAO
Michele Klain Solomon - Regional Office for Central and North America and Caribbean International Organization for Migrations / IOM
Manuel Otero – Director General Interamerican Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture / IICA
09:45 - 10:30
KEYNOTE
Financing territorial development: employment and community health services in the regional partners’ agenda
Vinícius Carvalho Pinheiro
- Deputy General Director and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean / ILO
Dr Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr Deputy Regional Director PAHO -WHO
10:45 - 12:15
Contributions and priorities from the sub-regional events of Cooperatives of the Americas
12:15 - 12:45
Closing remarks
Graciela Fernandez Quintas -President, Cooperatives of the Americas
12:45 - 13:00
Launching the 6 Cooperative Summit of the Americas: Paraguay 2022
Confirmed panelists
Graciela Fernández Quintas
President Cooperatives of the Americas
Ariel Guarco
President International Cooperative Alliance
Danilo Salerno
Regional Director, Cooperatives of the Americas
Julio Berdegué (FAO)
Deputy General Director and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean / FAO
Vinícius Carvalho Pinheiro (OIT)
Deputy General Director and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean / ILO
Alicia Barcena
Executive Secretary UN ECLAC
Michele Klain Solomon
Regional Office for Central and North America and Caribbean International Organization for Migrations / IOM
Manuel Otero
Director General Interamerican Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture / IICA
Carlos Alvarado
President of Costa Rica
Dr Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr
Deputy Regional Director PAHO -WHO
Organizers
Cooperativas de las Américas
Cooperatives of the Americas (formerly ACI-Americas) is the regional representation of the International Cooperative Alliance for the American continent.
The Regional Office for the Americas was established in 1990 in San José, Costa Rica. Its primary objective is to “promote the repositioning of the cooperative model in the new economic, political, social and commercial environment, supporting the member organizations of the Alliance in the Americas in the dissemination and defense of the cooperative identity, the promotion of business and the human resource development “.
Technical allies
Faculdade Unimed
Our strategic ally Faculdade Unimed, has provided the cooperative movement of the Americas with a virtual meeting stage, from the Hospitalar Hub platform, which will allow us to approach virtually and have the maximum level of interaction, to transmit the essence of cooperativism in this edition of the Regional Conference.
Perspectiva
Our media alliance with Perspectiva has the objective of building mutually beneficial relationships at the service of Cooperatives of the Americas, which allows us to expand the scope of the quality of the events and the programming of the 22nd Regional Conference. We strive to make the program as meaningful and innovative as possible, focusing on long-term, multi-initiative and content-based partnerships.
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