What is Social Solidarity Economy?
Today, perhaps as never before, more people are becoming aware that capitalism has turned our lives and our planet into a commodity. A system that is environmentally unsustainable and socially unjust, and that it is not able to guarantee the happiness and dignified life conditions of all persons in any place on the planet.
Social Solidarity Economy includes a wide range of practices that span economic, social, environmental, political, communitarian or holistic dimensions.
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Launch of the JeunESS Hub Africa in Cameroon
15–17 de diciembre de 2025 – CIPCRE, Bafoussam (Camerún) The African Network for Social and Solidarity Economy (RAESS), the Cameroon Network for Social and Solidarity Economy (RESSCAM), and RIPESS, with the support of the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation (ACCD), are organizing from 15 to 17 December the launch of the JeunESS Hub Africa, a space to boost youth participation [...]
RIPESS en el 5.º Simposio Técnico del UNTFSSE: aportes clave hacia una agenda global transformadora para la ESS
From 3 to 5 December 2025, RIPESS actively participated in the 5th Technical Symposium of the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE), held in Murcia, Spain’s Social Economy Capital 2025. The event gathered UN agencies, governments, international networks and SSE actors to advance the consolidation of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) within multilateral frameworks. [...]
RIPESS expresses its solidarity with the communities affected by the floods in Sri Lanka and supports the urgent humanitarian response led by its member Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement
Sri Lanka is facing one of its most serious humanitarian emergencies since the 2004 tsunami. Tropical Cyclone Ditwah has caused record-breaking rainfall, widespread flooding and landslides, the destruction of more than 41,000 homes, and the displacement of over 200,000 people. More than 1.5 million people across 22 districts have been affected. In response, the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, a long-standing and [...]
What is RIPESS?
RIPESS is a global network of continental networks committed to the promotion of Social Solidarity Economy. The member networks themselves (Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania) bring together national and sectorial networks, thus ensuring strong territorial anchoring.
The combined local and global scope gives RIPESS legitimacy to promote SSE, foster intercontinental cooperation, and advocate at different levels. RIPESS members believe in the importance of the globalisation of solidarity, and the ability to build and strengthen an economy that places people and planet at the centre of its activities.
