{"id":1149,"date":"2026-03-27T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/?post_type=publication&#038;p=1149"},"modified":"2026-06-18T06:47:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T06:47:05","slug":"recommendation_icaap_inclusion-of-youth","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/publication\/recommendation_icaap_inclusion-of-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Inclusion of Youth in Cooperatives | Recommendations to ICA-AP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Recommendations on Inclusion of Youth in Cooperatives<\/em>\u00a0presents SEWA Cooperative Federation\u2019s vision for strengthening youth participation\u2014particularly that of young women\u2014in the cooperative movement. Submitted as part of the Y20 engagement process to ICA-AP, the note argues that cooperatives can serve as powerful vehicles for employment, entrepreneurship, leadership, and economic participation among youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drawing on SEWA\u2019s experience of organizing informal women workers, it highlights the need for greater awareness of cooperative models, investments in youth-led and women-led enterprises, easier compliance systems, and stronger support structures such as federations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The publication also calls for expanding cooperatives into emerging sectors including the digital and care economies, while emphasizing the importance of social protection, research, education, and public infrastructure in creating an enabling ecosystem for the next generation of cooperative leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-space-between is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-0b5a8419 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Recommendation_ICAAP_Inclusion-of-Youth.pdf\" style=\"background-color:#114056;font-size:15px;font-style:normal;font-weight:500;text-transform:uppercase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download the Pdf<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The publication calls for expanding cooperatives into emerging sectors including the digital and care economies, while emphasizing the importance of social protection, research, education, and public infrastructure in creating an enabling ecosystem for the next generation of cooperative leaders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1151,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"publication-category":[25],"class_list":["post-1149","publication","type-publication","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","publication-category-policy-briefs-recommendations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36895,"href":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/1149\/revisions\/36895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sewafederation.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication-category?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}