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Report from ICA seminar online

A session at the 2011 ICA General Assembly in Cancun, Mexico, focused on Cooperative Legislation, Regulation and Reform Policy and featured the CLARITY Initiative. Click here to read or download the report.

 

The United Nations has declared 2012 the International Year of Cooperatives (IYC). The designation serves to highlight the contribution cooperatives have made in reducing poverty, creating jobs and promoting social integration. The theme for the IYC is "Cooperative Enterprises Build a Better World."

 

Welcome to CLARITY

The main goal of the Cooperative Law and Regulation Initiative — CLARITY — is to help national cooperative movements in developing countries create a legal and regulatory environment that enables cooperative businesses to flourish.

This site provides the background, training and tools that cooperatives, cooperative development and non-governmental organizations, legal groups and other aid organizations need to address reform.

The Cooperative Law and Regulation Initiative

CLARITY was created in 2005 by the members of the U.S. Overseas Cooperative Development Council, with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

It grew from the shared experiences and convictions of OCDC’s members that outmoded legal systems were barriers to cooperative development in many parts of the world.

CLARITY Initiatives focus on developing a cooperative-led process for cooperative legal reform, including:

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Principles for Legal Reform

Assessment, Analysis and Outreach

Applying the Principles

 

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