The VI Cooperative Summit of the Americas ended

Access information of interest about the VI Summit

In this section you will find information on: Thematic axes of the VI Summit, venues of the different events, registration costs, accommodation options and immigration requirements.


Get to know the academic agenda of the VI Summit

In our agenda you will find the activities that will be developed within the framework of the VI Cooperative Summit of the Americas and VIII Continental Congress of Cooperative Law.


About the 6th Cooperative Summit of the Americas

The cooperative commitment to the recovering and the concern for our local and global community

From October 24 to 27, 2022, we will have a great opportunity to highlight the impact and commitment of American cooperative movement for the global agenda, the planet, the sustainable development.

Cooperatives of the Americas and all member organizations from Paraguay (CONPACOOP, CONCOPAR, Cooperativa Universitaria, FECOAC, FECOPAR, FECOMULP and Panal Seguros) organizes the 6th Cooperative Summit of the Americas, which will take place in the city of Luque, Asunción, either on an in-person or hybrid modality depending on the pandemic developments, in compliance with the national and international health protocols.


The regional Summits have been held since 2009 with the purpose of building agreements and political commitments that are reflected in a Final Declaration, aimed at promoting changes that impact cooperative organizations and their communities. The expected number of participants is 1,200 people, who will meet over the course of three days to debate, study and magnify the most current issues, determining advocacy strategies and actions for the following 4 years.
This 6th edition constitutes an effort by regional cooperative movement to analyze reality, debate proposals and define joint initiatives for cooperatives as key actors of the international community.

The key themes to be discussed and analyzed in this first in-person gathering after over two years of pandemic will be: the cooperative identity, economic reactivation and integration, climate change and sustainability.

Side events of the core agenda will include a Commercial Forum, a Cooperative Education Forum, a Youth Meeting and the 8th Continental Congress of Cooperative Law.

 

On the Paraguayan cooperative movement

The Paraguayan cooperative movement has archived important results at national and international level, demonstrating that our model is the way to build a healthier and fairer society. The social, educational and union actions of the solidarity sector have a great impact in Paraguay as well as in other countries, (There are two Confederations in addition to several organizations involved in the organization of the Summit and they appear to use the term cooperative movement to include everyone).


The Paraguayan cooperative movement has been the protagonist of the national economic development: in 2021 there were more than 750 cooperatives representing 2,000,000 members and representing 45% of the economically active population.
In the national finance system, cooperative banking have a share of 18.2% of assets, 17.1% of conceived loans and 13.4% of savings.


In the agribusiness sector, cooperatives play a prominent role since they contribute to the generation of 22% of grain production, 21% of local beef production and 22% of exports. It is estimated that 68% of raw milk production that supplies the country comes from the cooperative sector, while 43% is exported to various countries.


A meeting aimed at cooperative leaders, researchers, teachers, directors and cooperative officials. The topics to be discussed and other logistical details of this important activity will be announced shortly, so that those interested can organize their participation well in advance and prepare the papers to be presented.

Continental Congress of Cooperative Law

Image VII Continental Congress of Cooperative Law, Costa Rica, 2019

From the 27th to the 29th of October 2022, a new edition of the Continental Congress of Cooperative Law will be held in Asunción, capital of Paraguay, under the motto The cooperative law and the cooperative identity in the post-pandemic era.
The inauguration will take place on October 27 at the Centro de Convenciones del Bourbon Hotel Conmebol, organized in the framework of the 6th Cooperative Summit of the Americas, which will be held just prior (October 25-27).


The rest of the work, on October 28 and 29, will be carried out in the Quinta Ykuá Satí and conducted through plenary presentations by qualified international specialists and parallel thematic commissions where the papers presented by the participants on the different points included in the agenda will be discussed.


The Congress, in its eighth edition, will be held during the same week as the 6th Cooperative Summit of the Americas, which will take place in the Paraguayan capital. The last Congress took place in San José, Costa Rica in November 2019 and was attended by over two hundred participants from nineteen countries.
As in previous occasions, the most important issues currently of interest to Cooperative Law will be discussed, especially in light of the situation created by the pandemic, including the changes and challenges caused by it as well as its effects on cooperatives in the region.
The meeting is aimed at legal professionals, researchers, professors, magistrates, leaders and officials of cooperatives related to the subject. For its realization, it has the support of universities, professional associations, cooperative entities and official organizations related to them.


The 8th Continental Congress of Cooperative Law will be held in the Quinta Ykua Satí, located in the city of Asuncion. Registered participants to the Continental Congress will have a free transfer service from the suggested list of conventioned hotels, during the course of the activities

From the following link you can access more information about the 8th Continental Congress of Cooperative Law.

Download Regulations of the VIII Continental Congress of Cooperative Law

Access the regulations of the VIII Continental Congress of Cooperative Law


Get to know the academic agenda of the VIII Continental Congress of Cooperative Law


Speakers

Institutional Opening session

Graciela Fernández Quintas

President Cooperatives of the Americas 

Ariel Guarco

President International Cooperative Alliance

Danilo Salerno

Regional Director, Cooperatives of the Americas

Cooperative Identity

Recovering and Economic integration

Sustainability and Climate Change

Simel Esim

Head of Cooperatives Unit, Department of Enterprises, ILO HQs

Martin Lowery

President of the Cooperative Identity Committee of the Alliance
International Cooperative

Antonella Noya

Head of Social Economy Unit and
Innovation – Center for Entrepreneurship,
SMEs, Regions and Cities, OECD

Marco Dini

Division of Productive and Business Development, ECLAC.

Adrían Peña

Minister of Environment, Government of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay

Márcio Lopes De Freitas

President of the Brazilian Cooperatives Organization – OCB, and Vice President of the ICAO/ICA.

Mario Lubetkin

Deputy General  Director and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean / FAO

Focus: Cooperative Identity

Parliamentarians for Cooperative and social Economy *

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Graciela Fernández Quintas

President of Cooperatives of the Americas

Cesar Cruz Roa

Paraguayan Representative on the
Board of Directors

Marco DIni

CEPAL

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Senator Oscar Solomón

President of the Congress of the Republic of Paraguay

Diputado Ubaldo Pascual Aita Maidana

President of the Special Commission on Cooperativism, Congress of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay

Senator Alejandro Sánchez

President of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Parlatino

Meeting of CICOPA (Industrial, Artesanal and Services Production Cooperatives Committee)

Crisitan Horton
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Christian Torres
Mario Schujman, Argentina
Marisol Fuentes

Cristian Horton

COOPERAR/CONARCOOP, Argentina

Daniella Priesler

NCBA CLUSA/USWF,   USA

Christian Torres

FECOPAR/Mercado 4,   Paraguay

Mario Schujman

National University of Rosario, Argentina

Marisol Fuentes

CUDECOOP/FCPU,       Uruguay

Financial services and digitalization Cooperative identity.

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Cynthia Judith Páez Arce
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José Cantero Sienra

President of the Central Bank of Paraguay.

Pablo Moran

FECOPAR/Coomencipar, Paraguay

Cynthia Judith Paez Arce

Cooperativa Universitaria,       Paraguay

Diego Rafael Segovia Enciso

Cooperativa Universitaria,       Paraguay

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Carla Decker
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Miller Garcia Perdomo

ANALFE, Colombia

Raúl Alvarenga

SISCOOP, Paraguay

Carla Decker

NCBA CLUSA, USA

Alfredo Arana

COOMEVA, Colombia.

The cooperative side of Youth

Isabella Figueroa
Aldo Jara
Nicolás jacquet
Verónica Morales (002)

Isabella Figueroa

COOMEVA, Colombia

Aldo Jara

FECOPAR,  Paraguay

Nicolás Jacquet

FACC, Argentina

Verónica Morales

Cooperativa Riobamba, Ecuador

Patricia Lopez
Costa RICA
Jovita Soto
Kamille Ritter

Patricia López

COOPEDUC, Paraguay

Amelia Carvajal

CENECOOP, Costa Rica

Jovita Soto

CNC, Mexico

Kamille Ritter

Cooppindo, Paraguay

Cooperative research for deepening our identity.

Mario Radrigan
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Felipe Correa
Elliot Bridgewater

Mario Radrigán

CIESCOOP, Chile

Pablo Guerra

University of the Republic, Uruguay

Felipe Correa

CEPAL

Elliot Bridgewater

Cooperatives and Mutuals of Canada, Canada

Cesar Basañes
Felipe Morandé
Paraguay
Dalia Borge

César Basañes

COOPERAR, Argentina

Felipe Morandé

Coopeuch, Chile

Maria Gabriela Walder

Delegada Paraguay

Dalia Borge

Escuela Andaluza de Economía Social, España 

Education and cooperative identity.

Julia Segovia
Doug O´Brien
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Hector Cordova

Julia Irene Segovia de Borba

CONPACOOP, Paraguay

Doug O´´ Brian

NCBA CLUSA, USA

Silvia Barberini

International Consultant, Italy

Onofre Cezário De Souza Filho

OCB, Brazil

Héctor Córdova

FEDECACES, El Salvador

Communicate our Cooperative identity

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Emmy Tapias
Florencia Gesto
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Patricio Suarez Area

COOPERAR, Argentina

Emmy Tapias

ASCOOP, Colombia

Florencia Gesto

CUDECOOP, Uruguay

Gisella Lefebvre López

Paraguay

Juan Pablo de León

CAJA POPULAR MÉXICANA, Mexico

Focus: Recovering and Economic integration

Cooperative health models towards regional integration.

Carlos Zarco
Emilson ferreira Lorca
Colombia
JOse Alves

Carlos Zarco

Espriu Foundation, Spain World Committee of Health Cooperatives

Emilson Ferreira Lorca

UNIMED, Brazil 

Angela Cruz

Coomeva, Colombia

José Alves de Sousa Neto

Uniodonto, Brazil 

Bethania Melendez
Ricardo Lopéz
Jose Pérez
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Bethania Melendez

Cooperativa Profesionales, Panama

Ricardo López

FAESS, Cooperar, Argentina

José Perez

Espriu Foundation, Spain 

Ariel Bango

Cooperativa Sanatorio Americano, Uruguay

Graciela Fernández Quintas

Cooperatives of the Americas

Cooperative production and distribution of public goods.

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Miguel Castedo
Marisol Fuentes
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Angel Echarren

FEDECOBA/COOPERAR, Argentina

Miguel Castedo

Cooperativa Rural de Electrificación,  Bolivia

Marisol Fuentes

UCOT/FCPU/CUDECOOP,   Uruguay

Camila Piñeiro

NCBA CLUSA. USA

Cooperative insurance against crises.

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Iván Otero Foto
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Carlos Jaitzman

SANCOR Seguros, Argentina

Iván Otero Matos

Cooperativa Servicios Múltiples, Puerto Rico

Fabio Gastal

Seguros UNIMED, Brazil

Ruben Barrios

Panal, Paraguay

Green and circular economy: opportunities for international cooperation

Matteo Sirtori
Neil Calvert (002)
Alex Serrano
Márcio Lopes
José Ariza

Matteo Sirtori

Delegation of the European Union, Paraguay

Neil Calvert

Cooperative College, England

Alex Serrano

NCBA CLUSA, USA

Márcio Lopes

OCB, Brazil

José Ariza

Escuela Andaluza de Economía Social, Spain

Felix Monge
Ariel Arenas (002)
Michela Giovannini
Daniel Egger (003)

Félix Monge

Casas de la Alegría, Costa Rica

Ariel Arenas

Proyecto Copropar

Michela Giovanni

International Consultant and Researcher

Daniel Egger

CoopsUYxDS. Uruguay

ICTs for cooperative businesses (REDACOOP WITH ALADI + IICA)

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Uruguay
Manuel Otero
Sergio Abreu

Graciela Fernández Quintas

President, Cooperative of the Americas

Simona Cavazzutti

REDACOOP, Cooperative of the Americas

Santiago Bertoni

Ministry of Agriculture, Uruguay

Manuel Otero

Director General, IICA

Sergio Abreu

Secretary General, ALADI

Doug O´Brien
Joao Marcos
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Doug O' Brien

NCBA CLUSA, USA

João Marcos Silva

OCB, Brazil

Martín Fernández

INACOOP, Uruguay

Danilo Salerno

Cooperatives of the Americas

Alvaro Ramos
José Aldana
José Arze (002)
Mario Leon (002)

Álvaro Ramos

International Consultant

José Aldana

University of Malaga, Spain

José Arze

IICA

Mario León

IICA

Ignacio Sanseovich, TECSO

Gustavo Flores, Coopagran

Andrea Politi

Alicia Peña, Coopeduc

José Vandresen, Cresol

Andrea Politi

Francisco Serón, UNAF

Blas Cristaldo, Fecoprod

Lautaro Viscay

Training for cooperative entrepreneurship.

Javier di Biase
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Javier Di Biase

Sancor Seguros Foundation, Argentina

Eva López Guajardo

Coopeuch Foundation, Chile

Milciades Benítez

FECOAC, Paraguay

José Ariza
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José Ariza

Escuela Andaluza de Economía Social, Spain

Silvia Barberini

International Consultant

Gabriel Isola

CUDECOOP, Uruguay

Focus: Sustainability and Climate Change

10th Meeting of Governmental Institution for cooperative Promotion, Regulation and/or financing

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Graciela Fernández Quintas

Cooperatives of the Americas

Martín Fernández

INACOOP, Uruguay

Andrea Sanhueza

CEPAL

Leonardo Papp

OCB, Brazil

SDG#4: Cooperative quality education for sustainability

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Yanio COncepción
Esteban
Hector Cordova

Mirna Lovatti,

FECOPROD, Paraguay

Yanio Concepción

Cooperativa Vega Real, Dominican Republic

Esteban Souberlich

CONCOPAR, Paraguay

Héctor Córdova

FEDECACES, El Salvador

SDG#11: Housing Cooperatives for sustainable cities and communities

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Mauricio de la Barra
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Alicia Maneiro

CUDECOOP, Uruguay

Mauricio de la Barra

CONAVICOOP, Chile

Carmen Rosado

LIGA DE COOPERATIVAS DE PUERTO RICO

Carlos Andrés Mansilla

COOPERAR, Argentina

SDG#12: Cooperatives for sustainable food systems (with FAO LAC).

Todor Ivanov
Hector Jacquet
Santiago Bertoni
Pablo Barbieri
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Todor Ivanov

ACI World Consumer Committee

Héctor Jacquet

Cooperativa Obrera, Argentina

Santiago Bertoni

Ministry of Agriculture of Paraguay

Pablo Barbieri

Cooperativa Obrera, Argentina

Leonardo Lapp

OCB, Brazil 

Alfred Fast
Pablo Perdomo
Jorge Cartagena (002)
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Alfred Fast

FECOPROD, Paraguay

Pablo Perdomo

CAF, Uruguay

Jorge Cartagena

FUCC, Uruguay

Camila Piñeiro

NCBA CLUSA, USA

Ignacio Moncayo
Sara Granados
Ingrid Zabaleta

Ignacio Moncayo

FACO ALC

Sara Granados

FAO ALC

Ingrid Zabaleta

FAO ALC

SDG#17: Cooperative investments with social impact. Towards a community ecosystem.

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Carla Decker
Paul Cabaj 1

Attilio Dadda

Legacoop, Italy

Carla Decker

NCBA CLUSA, USA

Paul Cabaj

Cooperatives and Mutuals of Canada, Canada

Crisitan Horton
Fernando Rodriguez
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Cristian Horton

COOPERAR, Argentina

Fernando Rodriguez

Cooperación Verde, Colombia 

João Pedro Segabinazzi Stephanou

Banco Cooperativo SICREDI, Brazil

SDG#5: Cooperative equity for gender equality.

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Francesco Fiorio

Dra. Zully Vera

Rector of the National University of Asunción

Maria Eugenia Perez Zea

Member of the World Board, International Cooperative Alliance and Cooperatives of the Americas

Myriam Báez Rojas

President of the National Committee of Women Cooperatives – CONPACOOP

Silvia Morimoto

Resident Representative in Paraguay UNDP United Nations Development Programme

Francesco Fiorio

Representative of the organization JUNIO VERDE, Paraguay

Gissela Wild
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Leticia Corsin
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Gisella Wild

Cooperative Director of the Provincial Energy Company Santa Fe- COOPERAR

Alfredo Mongelos

Secretary of the National System of Training and Labor Training – SINAFOCAL

Ana Leticia Carosini Ruiz Diaz

Economist, Master in Social Economy and Cooperatives

Ángeles Datti

CUDECOOP, Uruguay, CREG.

Xiomara Núñez

President, Gender Equity Committee – International Cooperative Alliance

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Information about the Convention Center

Meet the Conmebol Convention Center, Paraguay, a space in which our VI Cooperative Summit of the Americas will take place.

In the following link you will find information related to requirements for the entry into Paraguay of international visitors.

Information on exemption from Visas for entry to Paraguay see the following link.

Organizers

Cooperatives of the Americas.

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 “.

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