Your www.ohada.com website is pleased to announce the establishment of a Cooperative Law Committee at the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA).

The International Co-operative Alliance unites co-operatives worldwide. It is the custodian of co-operative values and principles and makes the case for their distinctive values-based economic business model which also provides individuals and communities with an instrument of self-help and influence over their development. The ICA advocates the interests and success of co-operatives, disseminates best practices and know-how, strengthens their capacity building and monitors their performance and progress over time.

The Alliance has three thematic committees on Gender Equality, Research and Co-operative Law. It also has a Youth Network and Communications management committee.

The Committee on Co-operative Law was made a thematic committee during the Alliance's last General Assembly in Cape Town in November 2013.

The Committee's objectives include:

• giving independent advice to the Alliance on co-operative law, broadly defined to include all legal rules that shape the co-operative institution and regulate its operations.
• developing proposals to translate the legal principles into co-operative law to ensure co-operative identity.
• assessing, advising on, proposing and monitoring changes in co-operative policy at national, regional, international and global level as they affect co-operative law.

We believe that the work of the co-operative law committee will help to significantly improve the effectiveness of cooperative law in all regions of the world, including Africa and more specifically in the OHADA zone.

The Chairperson of the Committee is Mr. Hagen Henrÿ, and Africa is represented by Mr. Willy Tadjudje.

For more details about the Cooperative Law Committee of the ICA, please consult the page: http://ica.coop/en/committee-co-operative-law

Contact: Dr. Willy Tadjudje, willytadj@yahoo.fr.