International Co-operative Alliance

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**International Co-operative Alliance**
Type	cooperative federation
Founded	1895
Headquarters	Geneva
Key people	Ivano Barberini, President
Area served	global
Website	www.ica.coop global300.coop icanews.coop

The International Co-operative Alliance (ICA) is a non-governmental Co-operative Federation (or, more precisely, a co-operative union representing co-operatives and the co-operative movement worldwide). It was founded in 1895 as a result of actions by Edward Vansittart Neale and the Christian Socialists. The ICA maintains the currently accepted version of the Rochdale Principles of Cooperation and the Statement on the Co-operative Identity. ICA represents 224 co-operative federations and organisations in 87 countries.

In 2006 the ICA published the first major index of the world's largest co-operative and mutual enterprises, the ICA Global 300, which demonstrated the scale of the co-operative movement globally.