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With a theme of 'co-operative enterprises build a better world' the UN International Year of Co-operatives brought co-operatives across the globe together to campaign with one global voice on our social responsible business model.

An important legacy outcome of the International year will be the formation of a business council for co-operative and mutual businesses, an important building block to grow the sector beyond 2012. To find out more about the formation of the council, please email iyc@socialbusiness.coop.

The International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) has produced a Blueprint for the Co-operative Decade to help co-operatives globally to become the fastest growing model of enterprise by 2020.