key people manuel mariscal president bruno roelants general secretary parent international cooperative alliance website cicopa.coop cicopa international organisation of industrial artisanal and service producers cooperatives 1 is the branch of the international cooperative alliance that promotes worker cooperatives . cicopa has a membership of 43 national and regional cooperative federations in 28 countries . its associated members are support organizations promoting cooperatives in their regions . many of those cooperatives are worker cooperatives businesses where the employees are the owners of the enterprise . in 2003 the then cicopa president rainer schluter reported that in europe they have seen a leap from 2 500 worker co ops and related models in 1980 to 85 000 today with a total membership of 1.5 million worker owners 2 the 2003 cicopa general assembly held in oslo norway approved in principle the world declaration on cooperative worker ownership . the final draft was approved by the cicopa executive committee on 17 february 2004 . the declaration was then approved by the ica general assembly in cartagena colombia in 2005 . 3 cicopa currently has a total of 43 members in 28 countries four of which are development organisations . cicopa has two regional organisations cecop cicopa europe and cicopa americas . cicopa americas includes two sub regional organisations ; cicopa north america and cicopa mercosur . cicopa s most recent general assembly took place in cape town south africa on november 2013 . member organizations edit associazione generale cooperative italiane agci associazione nazionale cooperative de produzione e lavoro ancpl legacoop associazione nazionale cooperative servizi e turismo ancst legacoop asociaci n de cooperativas de colombia ascoop compagnia finanziaria industriale cfi conf d ration generale des soci t s coop ratives de production cgscop confederaci n espa ola de cooperativas de trabajo asociado coceta confederazione cooperative italiane confederaci n empresarial de sociedades laborales de espa a confesal canadian worker cooperative federation cwcf f d ration canadienne des coop ratives de travail fcct co operatives uk det kooperative f llesforbund dkf esfin ides federaci n de cooperativas de produccion de uruguay fcpu federazione de cooperative sociali federa o nacional das cooperativas de solidariedade social fenacerci the international committee for the promotion of chinese industrial cooperatives iccic japanese workers co operative union jwcu national union of worker productive cooperatives of bulgaria nuwpc svaz esk ch a moravsk ch v robn ch dru stev scmvd f d ration nationale des soci t s coop ratives de production du b timent et des travaux publics scop btp slovensk zv z v robn ch dru stiev szvd tanzania federation of co operatives tfc asociatia nationala a cooperatiei mestesugaresti ucecom uganda co operative alliance verband genossenschaftlicher bau und industrieunternehmungen vgb zwi zek lustracyjny sp dzielni pracy zlsp united states federation of worker cooperatives usfwc references edit comit international des coop ratives de production et artisanales worker co ops mischa gaus z magazine world declaration on worker cooperatives v t e cooperatives and mutual organizations types of cooperative by governance consumer cooperative federation list cooperative wholesale society worker list employee ownership workers self management workers control workplace democracy business and employment co operative purchasing retailers cooperative other social cooperative agent owned company by purpose banking credit union mutual savings bank savings and loan association building society housing building cohousing student housing housing society egalitarian intentional community agricultural collective farming reforestation winemaking wheat pool utility list community wind energy electric telephone mutual education anarchistic free school homeschool democratic education learning by teaching mutual insurance health insurance cooperative other food list recycling topics identity rochdale principles ica statement on the cooperative identity political and economic theories co operative economics cooperative federalism distributism economic democracy mutualism neo capitalism owenism social enterprise socialism socially responsible investing solidarity economy key theorists g. d. h. cole charles gide david griffiths william king robert owen friedrich raiffeisen david schweickart rochdale pioneers beatrice webb by region canada ukraine united kingdom united states organizations list of cooperatives worker energy federations international co operative alliance co operative party history of the cooperative movement . coop retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cicopa & oldid 734822200 categories international economic organizationscooperative federationsinternational organisations based in belgiumhidden categories use dmy dates from september 2012pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 16 august 2016 at 22 47 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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