Programme Report – ICA General Assembly, Global Cooperative Conference and ICADP Meeting 2026 – Panama

The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA), founded in 1895, is the apex global body of the cooperative movement. ICA has 331 member organisations, comprising 281 full and 50 associate members, from 106 countries, and represents approximately one billion cooperative individual members worldwide. ICA operates through four regional oƯices viz. Africa, the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe, as well as eight sectoral organisations. The ICA Asia-Pacific Regional OƯice is based in New Delhi. Cooperatives of the Americas, the ICA regional office based in San José, Costa Rica, co-organised the Panama programme.