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 *
Graciela Fernández Quintas
President of Cooperatives of the Americas
Cesar Cruz Roa
Paraguayan Representative on the
Board of Directors
Marco DIni
CEPAL
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)
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.
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
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
COOMEVA, Colombia
Aldo Jara
FECOPAR, Paraguay
Nicolás Jacquet
FACC, Argentina
Verónica Morales
Cooperativa Riobamba, Ecuador
Patricia López
COOPEDUC, Paraguay
Amelia Carvajal
CENECOOP, Costa Rica
Jovita Soto
CNC, Mexico
Kamille Ritter
Cooppindo, Paraguay
Cooperative research for deepening our identity.
Mario Radrigán
CIESCOOP, Chile
Pablo Guerra
University of the Republic, Uruguay
Felipe Correa
CEPAL
Elliot Bridgewater
Cooperatives and Mutuals of Canada, Canada
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 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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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)
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
NCBA CLUSA, USA
João Marcos Silva
OCB, Brazil
Martín Fernández
INACOOP, Uruguay
Danilo Salerno
Cooperatives of the Americas
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
Sancor Seguros Foundation, Argentina
Eva López Guajardo
Coopeuch Foundation, Chile
Milciades Benítez
FECOAC, Paraguay
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
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
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
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
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
FECOPROD, Paraguay
Pablo Perdomo
CAF, Uruguay
Jorge Cartagena
FUCC, Uruguay
Camila Piñeiro
NCBA CLUSA, USA
Ignacio Moncayo
FACO ALC
Sara Granados
FAO ALC
Ingrid Zabaleta
FAO ALC
SDG#17: Cooperative investments with social impact. Towards a community ecosystem.
Attilio Dadda
Legacoop, Italy
Carla Decker
NCBA CLUSA, USA
Paul Cabaj
Cooperatives and Mutuals of Canada, Canada
Cristian Horton
COOPERAR, Argentina
Fernando Rodriguez
Cooperación Verde, Colombia
João Pedro Segabinazzi Stephanou
Banco Cooperativo SICREDI, Brazil
SDG#5: Cooperative equity for gender equality.
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
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
Logistica
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 “.
They support:
Do you want to become a sponsor of the 6th Cooperative Summit of the Americas?
The VI Summit, the Youth activity and the Cooperative Law Congress are a great opportunity for visibility we invite you to be part of the sponsors of these events, check the benefits here and contact us to be part of these important events.