Rochdale Pioneers Award 2024

Nominations are open for the International Cooperative Alliance’s Rochdale Pioneers Award, the highest honour that the ICA bestows. 

The purpose of the Award is to recognise, in the spirit of the contribution of the Rochdale Pioneers, an individual who has contributed to innovative and financially sustainable co-operative activities that have significantly benefited co-operative members. Under special circumstances, a co-operative organisation can be recognised.

Nominations are invited from member organisations of the ICA and from organisations in solidarity with the co-operative movement. Nominees must be current or former members or employees in an ICA member organisation or in one of that organisation’s members or affiliates. 

If an organisation is nominated, rather than an individual, it must be an ICA member organisation or one of that organisation’s members or affiliates.

A nominee’s achievements must:

• Visibly demonstrate benefit to the global co-operative movement
• Be innovative
• Be financially sustainable and of a permanent nature
• Be a leader in the co-operative movement
• Demonstrate commitment to the co-operative principles

Deadline for nominations: 31 August 2024

Selection of the final awardee will be made by an ICA Board-appointed committee and awards will be presented at the November 2024 ICA conference in New Delhi.

Links to past Rochdale Pioneers Award Laureates and the PDF of the Nomination Form are below.