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2025: A Year of Focus on Cooperatives at e-MFP

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17 Dec 2025

2025 has been designated the UN International Year of Cooperatives, and at e-MFP we were pleased to make cooperatives a key focus of our work throughout the year.


Introduction

With the theme of "Cooperatives Build a Better World", IYC25 aims to raise awareness about the invaluable contributions of cooperative enterprises in reducing poverty, generating employment, and promoting social integration. It also highlights the strengths of the cooperative business model as an effective approach to advancing socioeconomic development.


Cooperatives are member-owned and democratically governed enterprises that exist to meet the economic, social and cultural needs of their members. By putting people at the centre of their activities, cooperatives play an important role in improving livelihoods, strengthening communities and promoting inclusive and sustainable development, particularly for low-income and financially excluded populations.


Throughout 2025, e-MFP produced a range of resources exploring the role of cooperatives in inclusive finance and development. These included a dedicated blog series and a IF25 plenary conference session that brought together practitioners, researchers and policymakers to share experiences and insights from the field.


e-MFP would like to extend its sincere thanks to all contributors who shared their time, knowledge and expertise through these initiatives. Their engagement helped deepen understanding of how cooperative models can empower members and improve lives.


We're delighted at the end of IYC25 to showcase the resources on cooperatives produced throughout 2025:


IF25 conference sessions




Blog series


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