December 2017

Green House Nursery Cooperative, which treats,
grows and sells seeds at an affordable price in
the region, benefiting 200 Lebanese farmers and
Syrian refugees.
In the West Bank, the Kalandia Refugee
Camp Women’s Handicraft Cooperative enables
Palestinian women to secure their income by selling
handicrafts, dried fruits, tailoring and quilting. They
also receive vocational training and can benefit
from access to a kindergarten and a nursery via
the co-operative.
The ILO paper suggests the co-operative
enterprise model should be better integrated
into refugee response strategies. It adds that cooperative
organisations need to be sought out for
their knowledge and experience in responding to
refugee crises.
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