Cooperative Identity Resources

The cooperative movement has developed different tools to showcase and explain the Cooperative Identity. Here you can find some of them.

Cooperative Identity in Asia and Pacific

Cooperative Organization and its characteristics in economic and social development (1995 to 2020)

Sustainability 2022 by Ribas,W.P.; Pedroso, B.;Vargas, L.M.; Picinin, C.T.;Freitas Júnior, M.A.d. (pdf 933 Ko)

Examining our Cooperative Identity

Discussion paper for the 33rd world cooperative congress

Guidance Notes on the Cooperative Principles

The Statement on the Cooperative Identity

Videos Congress

What We Know about Our Cooperative Identity - Results of 2022 Survey

The Cooperative Identity Survey was conducted online via SurveyMonkey between April and 31 October 2022. The survey received 2,290 completed responses from 136 countries. Although it was not designed as a sample survey using systematic sampling, it does represent geographically, linguistically, and culturally diverse, well-distributed voices of ICA members, individual cooperatives and cooperators, along with cooperative experts worldwide.

A DIY guide to Organising Your Cooperative Identity Consultation.

This guide was produced to help cooperatives and cooperative federations conduct events to allow their members to participate in a more intensive way in the first phase of the Identity Consultation.

Cooperative Identity Feedback (by country)

Feedback from Australasia

Feedback from Canada

Feedback from Italy