THE Philippine Chamber of Cooperatives Inc. (Coop Chamber) announced its leaders discussed with officials of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Philippine Country Office how to strengthen the role of cooperatives in national development, decent work promotion and the \u201csocial solidarity economy\u201d (SSE).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A statement issued by the Coop Chamber read this was the gist of a gab during a courtesy visit by the organization\u2019s chairman, Noel D. Raboy, and secretary-general, Edwin A. Bustillos, to ILO Philippines Director Khalid Hassan on January 22. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe high-level meeting focused on aligning the Philippine cooperative movement with international standards, specifically ILO Recommendation 193 on the Promotion of Cooperatives,\u201d read the statement. The dialogue also underscored the pivotal role of cooperatives as major pillars of the SSE, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cCooperatives are not just capital-driven enterprises; they are people-driven and servicedriven,\u201d Raboy was quoted in the statement as saying. He highlighted the Chamber\u2019s ongoing advocacy to maintain the \u201cone member, one vote\u201d principle in the revision of the Philippine Cooperative Code, warning against proposals that would introduce share voting and erode democratic member control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A significant portion of the discussion centered on the government\u2019s \u201cPublic Transport Modernization\u201d program, the statement read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Coop Chamer, Hassan expressed interest in collaborating with the organization on this program, particularly through the ILO\u2019s \u201cGlobal Accelerator\u201d program, which focuses on the transport sector. The initiative aims to design integrated policies for decent work and ensure a \u201cjust transition\u201d for workers in the industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the Coop Chamber, the meeting concluded with a commitment from both parties to sustain communication and explore concrete partnerships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hassan also committed to share the ILO roadmap for the construction and transportation sectors with the Chamber, inviting their policy recommendations through a cooperative lens.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE Philippine Chamber of Cooperatives Inc. (Coop Chamber) announced its leaders discussed with officials of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Philippine Country Office how to strengthen the role of cooperatives in national development, decent work promotion and the \u201csocial solidarity economy\u201d (SSE). A statement issued by the Coop Chamber read this was the gist of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","entry","has-media"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screen-Shot-2026-01-30-at-3.25.34-PM.png",1162,400,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screen-Shot-2026-01-30-at-3.25.34-PM.png",1162,400,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screen-Shot-2026-01-30-at-3.25.34-PM.png",1162,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screen-Shot-2026-01-30-at-3.25.34-PM-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screen-Shot-2026-01-30-at-3.25.34-PM-300x103.png",300,103,true],"large":["https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screen-Shot-2026-01-30-at-3.25.34-PM-1024x352.png",1024,352,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screen-Shot-2026-01-30-at-3.25.34-PM.png",1162,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screen-Shot-2026-01-30-at-3.25.34-PM.png",1162,400,false],"ocean-thumb-m":["https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screen-Shot-2026-01-30-at-3.25.34-PM-600x400.png",600,400,true],"ocean-thumb-ml":["https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screen-Shot-2026-01-30-at-3.25.34-PM-800x400.png",800,400,true],"ocean-thumb-l":["https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screen-Shot-2026-01-30-at-3.25.34-PM.png",1162,400,false]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"PhChamberCoop","author_link":"https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/?author=1"},"rttpg_comment":2,"rttpg_category":"News<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"THE Philippine Chamber of Cooperatives Inc. (Coop Chamber) announced its leaders discussed with officials of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Philippine Country Office how to strengthen the role of cooperatives in national development, decent work promotion and the \u201csocial solidarity economy\u201d (SSE). A statement issued by the Coop Chamber read this was the gist of…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3665,"href":"https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions\/3665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coopchamberph.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}