National Experience in Promoting the Cooperative Movement

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1979.

What other versions does this mandate have?

4 versions · 1977–1990

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/44/58

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1990	A/RES/44/58	National experience in promoting the co-operative movement	—	—
1981	A/RES/36/18	National experience in promoting the co-operative movement	343	22%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/47	National experience in promoting the cooperative movement	467	24%Compare
1977	A/RES/31/37	National experience in promoting the co-operative movement	696	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Cooperative Movements Economic Development Social Development Women in Development

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on national experience in promoting the co-operative movement;22 2.

Reiterates the necessity of an international exchange of experience as a contribution to the growth and diversification of the co-operative movement;

Stresses the role of co-operatives in the development of weaker sections of the community and in over-all social and economic advancement, particularly in developing countries;

Recognizes that co-operatives are an important means of increasing employment opportunities for women and integrating them, as active members of society, into the development process;

Stresses also the important social role of cooperatives in involving people at the grass-roots level in the planning and decision-making which affect their daily lives;

Invites Member States, relevant specialized agencies and other United Nations organs to pay special attention to the training and education aspects of the co-operative movement at the local, national and international levels;

Also invites Member States, relevant specialized agencies and other United Nations organs to submit follow-up reports on their experience in promoting the co-operative movement, referring especially to the participation of women in the co-operative movement and to the role of co-operatives in achieving over-all social and economic development;

22 E/1978/15 and Corr.2.

Invites those Member States which have not already done so to submit reports on national experience in promoting the co-operative movement;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session, through the Economic and Social Council, a follow-up report on national experience in promoting the co-operative movement, referring especially to the participation of women in the co-operative movement and to the role of co-operatives in achieving over-all social and economic development, based on data already available and on additional contributions from Member States and relevant specialized agencies;

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Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-sixth session the item entitled "National experience in achieving far-reaching social and economic changes for the purpose of social progress" and to consider under this item the follow-up report of the Secretary-General on national experience in promoting the co-operative movement.

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