2025 Special Focus - CM50 Interviews
To mark the IYC, the 2025 WCM is a special edition, featuring a collaboration with the Cooperatives and Mutuals Leadership Circle (CM50) to showcase, through a series of interviews curated by Co-op News, their specific actions and initiatives aiming to improve the quality of life and wellbeing of their members and communities. In these interviews, cooperative and mutual leaders share some of their impact stories and describe how their organisations make a tangible, positive impact on their members, employees and communities.
For previous editions of the report, the World Cooperative Monitor team has worked closely with the International Cooperative Entrepreneurship Think Tank (ICETT), a group of large cooperatives engaged with the ICA in the study and deepening of various issues related to the cooperative world. A collaboration has begun to integrate cooperative issues of the moment with the WCM to stimulate strategic action through best practice sharing amongst ICETT members, the top 300 cooperatives and mutuals and the wider cooperative movement.
Besides the economic and employment data of the Top 300 cooperatives and mutuals at the global level, the recent editions of the WCM feature a chapter focused on matters pertaining to large cooperatives and their economic and social impact. Recent analysis has focused on member benefits, digitalisation, the SDGs and the response to Covid-19.
