Three co-operators jointly share 2005 Rochdale Pioneers Award
The Rochdale Pioneers Award was first awarded in 2001.
Its purpose is to recognise a person or a co-operative organisation, which has contributed to innovative and sustainable co-operative activities that have significantly benefited their membership.
The first laureate of the Rochdale Pioneers Award was Dr. Verghese Kurien, India who received the Award at the ICA General Assembly in Seoul 2001.
At the Oslo General Assembly in 2003 the award was shared between Francisco Luis Jimenez Arcila, Colombia and Lloyd Wilkinson, United Kingdom.
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One of the highpoints of the 2005 General Assembly was the intervention made by Francisco Luis Jimenez Arcila, the 104 year old joint winner of the 2003 Rochdale Pioneers Award. |
This year the joint winners were Hans Dahlberg, recently retired CEO of ICMIF, Yehudah Paz, retiring ICA Board member and long time co-operative and peace activist and Dr Ian MacPherson, well known co-operative historian and researcher.
Each of this year’s winners received a special certificate along with the award itself - this year a pre-Colombian artefact. The importance of the award and its acknowledgement of a lifetime commitment to the co-operative cause was evident in all the recipients acceptance speeches.
Photo shows , from left, Hans Dahlberg, Yehudah Paz and Ian MacPherson waiting to receive their award at the 2005 ICA General Assembly.
The Rochdale Pioneers Award nominees (pdf)
