The conference brings together cooperative practitioners, colleagues, academics and experts who will provoke thinking and discussion as the conference explores how cooperatives build prosperity for all.
Over the two days, each morning and afternoon session will include thematic plenaries on Enabling Environment; Leadership; Identity; and the Future. These will be followed by parallel sessions inspired by these four themes, providing platforms for discussions and exchanges.
A special screening of Manthan (The Churning) will be held on 26 November, to mark the 103rd birth anniversary of Dr Verghese Kurien, recipient of the first Rochdale Pioneer Award, who was fondly called the milkman of India. This very special 1976 film tells a fictionalised version of the beginnings of India’s dairy cooperative movement, and was funded by 500,000 farmers who wanted their story told.
An open workshop on 27 November to co-create the calls to action by #ICANewDelhi2024, followed by the closing plenary and cultural programmes, will bring the conference to a close.
Date 26 November
09:00 — 11:20
Plenary-I Enabling Policy and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Panel I.A- Institutional Support to cooperatives
Panel I.B – Entrepreneurial Ecosystems for Cooperatives
11:20 — 11:40
Break
11:40 — 13:00
Parallel Sessions on Plenary-I
Parallel Session I.I Positioning Cooperatives in Global Policy
Parallel Session I.II Cross-Regional Cooperation to Building Prosperity for All
Parallel Session I.III Transition from Informal to Formal Economy
Parallel Session I.IV Essential Role of the State in Cooperative Development
13:00 — 14:00
Lunch Break
14:15 — 16:15
Plenary II: Nurturing Purposeful Leadership- Individuals and Institutions
Panel II.A Building Leaders for the Cooperative Movement
Panel II.B Cooperatives Leading the Way to Shared Prosperity
16:15 — 16:45
Networking Break
16:45 — 18:00
Parallel Sessions on Plenary-II “Purposeful Leadership to create Prosperity for All”
Parallel Session II.I Building Cooperative Value Chains
Parallel Session II.II Mainstreaming Cooperative Education
Parallel Session II.III Nurturing Executive Leadership: Perspective from ICA Sectors
Parallel Session II.IV Values in Cooperative Business: Perspective from Large Cooperatives
18:20 — 20:45
Screening of the Film Manthan
Preserved by the Film Heritage Foundation
Founder Director: Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
20:45 — 22:00
Dinner
Date 27 November
09:00 — 11:05
Plenary-III: Reaffirming the Cooperative Identity
Panel III.A Perspectives from ICA Global Consultations on the Cooperative Identity
Panel III.B Living Our Cooperative Identity
11:05 — 11:30
Networking Break
11:30 — 13:00
Parallel Sessions on Plenary-III “Reaffirming the Cooperative Identity to advance Prosperity for All”
Parallel Session III.I Care Economy
Parallel Session III.II Promoting Cultural Heritage and Creative Cooperatives
Parallel Session III.III Cooperatives in Educational Institutions
Parallel Session III.IV Resilience as a Response: Case Studies in Hardship Management by Cooperatives
13:00 — 14:00
Lunch
14:00 — 16:15
Plenary IV Shaping the Future
Panel IV.A Creating and Measuring Cooperative Impact
Panel IV.B Market Based Solutions by and for Cooperatives
16:15 — 16:30
Networking Break
16:30 — 18:00
Parallel Sessions on Plenary-IV “Shaping the Future: Towards realizing Prosperity for All in the 21st Century”
Parallel Session IV.I People-centered circular economy – how cooperatives in the textile and tourism sectors contribute to UN SDG12
Parallel Session IV.II Cooperatives and digital and new technologies
Parallel Session IV.III Measuring the Coop-Impact Toward Sustainability
Parallel Session IV.IV Cooperatives Accelarating the UN-SDGs
18:00 — 18:30
Networking Break
18:30 — 20:30
Closing and Cultural Programme
20:30 — 22:00
Dinner
