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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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RIPESS at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4)

RIPESS will actively participate in the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), to be held in Seville from June 30 to July 3, 2025.In the current complex geopolitical context, marked by deep global inequalities and urgent socio-ecological challenges, the international network for the promotion of the Social and Solidarity Economy enters this space with the goal of integrating [...]

Press release: Social and Solidarity Economy Integrated in New Global Financing for Development Agenda

22 June 2025 Against all odds, the RIPESS-led advocacy campaign with government allies North and South and with support of the United Nations Task Force on the Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) succeeded in integrating the social and solidarity economy (SSE) into the new global Financing for Development Agenda, amidst very acrimonious negotiations that were at times nearly on the [...]

[2 July] FfD4 Side Event: Mainstreaming the Social and Solidarity Economy in the Financing for Development Agenda and its Follow-up

The main objective of this side event is to follow up on UNGA resolution 79/213, adopted in December 2024, that  “encourages Member States to consider how the social and solidarity economy could contribute to and feature in relevant upcoming multilateral processes, such as the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development”. Side-event Details Date: Wednesday, 2 July, 2025.Time: 14:30-16:00 CESTPlace: [...]

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.

CSA, cohousing,biocoops, recycling,, renewable energy cooperatives, food coop… What is it that allows these thousands of initiatives, this system of values that underpins the social and solidarity economy, to form a system? To create a movement? How can they be made more visible?

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