Webinar: IYC 2025 World Cooperative Monitor – Special Edition

Tuesday, 27 January 2026 | 14:00–15:30 CET 

The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA), together with EURICSE and ICETT, will host a webinar dedicated to the World Cooperative Monitor 2025 – Special Edition, marking the conclusion of the UN International Year of Cooperatives (IYC 2025). 

The World Cooperative Monitor (WCM) is the leading global reference on the economic scale, scope and performance of the world’s largest cooperatives and mutuals. Produced annually by the ICA and EURICSE, with the support of the ICETT, the International Cooperative Entrepreneurship Think Tank, it provides robust and comparable data on the global cooperative movement through its Top 300 rankings and sectoral analysis. The 2025 edition also includes interviews to cooperatives leaders from the CM50, the Cooperative and Mutuals Leadership Circle. 

Register here to receive the Zoom webinar link. 

Objectives of the webinar: 

• Present the key findings and global trends from the WCM 2025.
• Highlight concrete examples of cooperative impact across sectors and regions.
• Strengthen the visibility of cooperatives in global policy, SDG, and social development debates.
• Foster dialogue between cooperative leaders, policymakers, UN agencies, researchers, and development partners.
• Promote the World Cooperative Monitor as a strategic, evidence-based tool for advocacy, research, and policy engagement.
• Shed light on how the WCM could look in the next decade. 

Programme: 

14:00 – 14:05 | Opening Remarks 
Jeroen Douglas – Director General, ICA 

14:05 – 14:20 | Setting the Stage: Key Findings from the WCM 2025 
Gianluca Salvatori – Secretary General, EURICSE
Rebecca Harvey – Executive Director, CoopNews 

14:20 – 15:00 | Panel Discussion: Cooperative Impact Across Key Sectors 

• Agriculture / Producer Cooperatives: Manish Sanghani, IFFCO – India
• Consumer Cooperatives: Paul Gerrand, Co-operative Group – United Kingdom
• Banking: Vincent Marangu, Cooperative Bank of Kenya – Kenya
• Insurance: Georgina Díaz, Sociedad de Seguros del Magisterio Nacional – Costa Rica 

15:00 – 15:20 | Q&A 

15:20 – 15:30 | Reflections and Way Forward 
Thomas Blondeel – Chair, ICETT 

Moderator: Ilana Gotz – Senior Project Manager, EURICSE.

For more information, download the concept note below.