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International Co-operative Alliance
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| Type | cooperative federation |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1895 |
| Headquarters | Geneva |
| Key people | Ivano Barberini, President |
| Area served | global |
| Website | www.ica.coop global300.coop icanews.coop |
The International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) is a non-governmental Co-operative Federation (or, more precisely, a co-operative union representing co-operatives and the co-operative movement worldwide). It was founded in 1895 as a result of actions by Edward Vansittart Neale and the Christian Socialists. The ICA maintains the currently accepted version of the Rochdale Principles of Cooperation and the Statement on the Co-operative Identity. ICA represents 221 co-operative federations in 86 countries.
In 2006 the ICA published the first major index of the world's largest co-operative and mutual enterprises, the ICA Global 300, which demonstrated the scale of the co-operative movement globally.
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