The Centre de la francophonie des Amériques organized a meeting in Cap Haitien, from April 30 to May 2.

The objective of this meeting was to promote the discovery of approaches and practices of social and solidarity economy (SSE). For the Centre, solidarity and social economy draws its strength from the heart of collective sustainable development practice and contributes to building a more just and equitable world.

French is the 4th most widely spoken language in the Americas, coming respectively after Spanish, English and Portuguese. As a minority group in the Americas, it turns out that the SSE could be an indispensable tool in many communities.

In addition to representatives from Quebec and Canada, there were participants from Louisiana, Guadeloupe and Haiti.
The idea of setting up a network for the exchange of information on SSE in the Francophone areas of the Americas is seen by participants as very relevant.

We, from the Chantier de l’économie sociale and the Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNET), both members of RIPESS North America, were partners of the Centre in holding the meeting.

The 12th edition of the World Social Forum (WSF), held in Tunis from March 26 to 30 , was a true testament of the struggles of social movements and civil society in Tunisia, who identify themselves as the main actors of the Arab Spring, and offered a broad representation of the global social movements that support the Tunisian people. Tens of thousands of people attended the opening march on March 26, after a morning meeting of women that took place in a crowded auditorium. In all 1,200 workshops and conferences followed. The WSF ended on with a march in support of the Palestinian people.

The social and solidarity economy held an important place in the programming. The initiative presented in the printed program was that of the NOMAD 08 cooperative. This coop brings together a group of eight young unemployed graduates from Redeyef City in southern Tunisia and specializes in manufacturing electronic interpretation equipment, the same used during the WSF. With the tens of thousands of unemployed youth in Tunisia, the NOMAD cooperative sets a great example and this explains the organizers’ choice of presenting NOMAD in the forefront to ILLUSTRATE the historic Forum motto: Another World Is Possible.

RIPESS, including RIPESS Europe, RIPESS North America and the African Network of Social Solidarity Economy (RAESS) organized seven workshops, attended by nearly 300 people (see the list of activities here). Several regional organizations joined our efforts to facilitate the workshops and discussed the role of SSE in Africa, food sovereignty, the informal economy and economic democracy as an alternative to capitalism and neoliberal globalization. We heard many testimonies of participants from sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa or South America, by organizations that carry out activities with women, with youth or that are fighting against land grabbing or unemployment. We also insisted that the SSE is not an economy of repair but the construction of a new worldview and applicable alternatives to neoliberal economic devastation.

The RIPESS member organizations at the WSF were able to converge and work together, in collaboration with Tunisian organizations interested in the SSE, to promote the SSE as an alternative.

In our workshops, and outside of them, we found strong support for the idea that the SSE can be a suitable approach for the Tunisian people, and especially young people, to organize in different regions of the country, in order to develop activities for a better life.

We wish to testify to the warm welcome of the Tunisians. We also want to share our feeling that the SSE is already alive and well in Tunisia.

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Josette Combes
Mouvement d’économie solidaire (MES) France
Member RIPESS Europe

Maude Brossard
Chantier de l’économie sociale du Québec
Member RIPESS North America

Yvon Poirier
Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNET)
Member RIPESS North America

Noureddine EL HARRAK
Réseau Marocain de l’ESS ( REMESS)
Member of SSE African Network (RAESS)

April 2013

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The participants in the Assembly of Convergence “Another World already exists here and now” declare that social solidarity economy in its various forms throughout the world represents the alternative to the global capitalist system. It is an economy conceived by citizens for citizens; the objective is to democratically ensure a decent life and food sovereignty for all people, and to preserve the natural resources that are currently being destroyed and wasted.

Social solidarity economy emancipates all people, but especially women who are the key actors. It allows them to gain control over their lives by eradicating poverty and re-establishing the right to a dignified life for all.

Here and now citizens around the world are organising to structure possibilities and networks for exchanging tools, ideas and goods in short circuits and alliances between producers and consumers as well as supporting solidarity between all peoples of the world. This wealth is not merely material, it is based on that of relationships built between people, a key value to protecting the future of humankind. The assembly calls for all people to organise collectively and bring pressure to bear on public authorities from local to international level, to shifting their economic policy to a people- rather than capital-centred economy.

Specifically this should aim to:

• Jointly work with civil society and SSE organisations to build policies that enable SSE to develop from local to national level Guarantee decent income for all people as well as universal access to basic services such as healthcare and education;
• Encourage participatory, cooperative teaching methods from an early age and throughout the learning process as well as in production processes in order to promote solidarity and cooperation in all activities;
• Develop the activities of social and solidarity economy through procurement practice and use of services that include transparent criteria, good governance and the ecological criteria of SSE;
• Encourage young people in solidarity entrepreneurship and useful economic activities, particularly in the sector of essential goods and services (organic agriculture, renewable energies, equitable sharing of water, forestry and other natural resources). SSE provides an efficient means of fighting unemployment in countries such as Tunisia and of creating jobs for young graduates;
• Establish a legal framework, particularly at international level that will support solidarity finance, citizens’ investment cooperatives, and local solidarity currencies;
• Provide active support for research and development, international and national exchange of good practice and advocacy in the United Nations’ agencies as well as all other international institutions to meet the urgent transition to an economy that respects both humankind and the planet.

The Assembly calls upon all civil society actors to network their actions at global level in order to enable people all over the world to assert their rights, and to replace the current system that is based on individual selfishness, over-consumption of resources, competition, male hegemony and war, by a peaceful, fraternal sober economy of cooperation and peace between all humankind.

Tunis, 29 March 2013

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Program
Manila, The Philippines, 15-18 October 2013

Official languages of the International Meeting of Social Solidarity Economy 2013: English, French, and Spanish. ASEC Philippines should open a dialogue with the French and Spanish Embassies in Manila to get them involved in the organization and conduct of the international meeting, and in particular gain their material support for the interpretation requirements of the meeting.

2. Details

2.1 Day 1

* Opening Ceremony

A formal moment of the meeting, which can be open to external public, with some speakers among the RIPESS Board (one for each Continent), the Local Organizers Committee, Government authorities, Supporters, Partners.

The timeline of the Ripess Meetings should briefly be recovered, highlighting the main results of each one, in a manner to contextualize the actual 2013 Meeting.

Some methodology could be used to create a way for the participants to present themselves (name, country, organization, sector of activity, expectations for the meeting)

* Political and conjuncture analysis

This is the moment of a global analysis where the world’s situation, the global crisis and the actual challenges and the possible role of SSE in the world would be treated. This will be done in the Plenary with a Ripess Board member and one or two key speakers not necessarily directly involved with SSE.

Someone from UN could also be called to contribute in this moment with the challenges on global governance and the redefinition of the Millennium Goals in 2015. Results of the UNRISD Conference “Social and Solidarity Economy: Potential and Limits” could be a good input for the discussions.

The results of the World Social Forum on SSE (July 2013 in Brazil) and the World Forum on Fair Trade (April 2013 in Brazil) could also be briefly presented.

People from the Plenary would also contribute with an “open forum” moment after the main speakers.

* SSE in the continents: state of the art

Each Continent will have members from RIPESS Board who will present a State of the Art of SSE in their respective continents. The continental SSE state of the art should provide an overview of social & solidarity economy initiatives and the movement in each the 6 continents: Africa, Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean, Europe, North America, and Oceania.

At this point, each continental representative will also present briefly the main results of the proposals from the Continent about the Global Vision on SSE.

2.2 Day 2

* Territory of Social Solidarity Economy in Quezon City Memorial Circle (in Manila’s metropolitan area)

On the second day, the SSE International Meeting will take place in an open space, defining a “Territory of Social Solidarity Economy”. The probable place will be the Quezon City Memorial Circle Memorial Circle,in collaboration with the QC city government.

There will be three types of activities going on at the same time:

1. A Social Solidarity Economy Fair

2. Expositions about SSE initiatives from all around the world

3. Self-managed activities.

In this way, foreign and local participants can either display their products or advocacy materials. Local SSE enterprises will also be invited to present to the Meeting participants their concrete practices in The Philippines, as a way to present concretely something about the reality of SSE in Asia.

This will provide the Meeting participants and local community the opportunity to know something about the diversity of SSE in the World, engage the exhibitors in a dialogue and provide economic exchanges among the international actors that are present and also by institutional consumers from Asia, which are going to be contacted beforehand with a catalog of the products and services that are going to be available in the Fair.

2.3 Day 3

With the objective of deepening the discussions and producing resolutions that will guide the RIPESS members in the next 4 years, the participants will focus on 4 themes during the day: “Global Vision ”, “SSE Experiences and Economic Integration”, “Global Networking ” and “Communication and visibility of SSE ”.

The methodological approach for this moment is to base the discussions on real and territorial based experiences in the 5 continents and have a very participative and democratic way to build its resolutions.

* Morning – Theme 1: Global Vision

In the morning, all Meeting participants will be involved in crafting a Global Vision of SSE.

This Theme debates the basic principles that define SSE world-wide, and will serve as reference for Ripess’ comprehension of SSE. Both viewpoints that are consensual or divergent (i.e. showing different perspectives on SSE) should be highlighted. The idea is that a basic document developed by the continental networks during the year could serve as a reference for debate, besides the concrete initiatives that will be discussed in the workgroups.

Questions/Issues of this Theme:

→ Governance structures for SSE

→ Values of SSE that set it apart from neoliberal market oriented economy

→ Social development services provided by SSE and ecological conservation services

→ Economical sustainability

Prior to the Meeting, the continental networks of RIPESS will initiate discussions on the global vision of SSE. Formulations of the global SSE vision will then be gathered and submitted to the respective RIPESS Board members, who in turn will review the vision formulations. RIPESS Board members will then select what may be deemed as sound formulations of the global SSE vision and submit these to the Executive Coordinator of RIPESS. The 2013 International Meeting of SSE participants will collectively review all the submissions and select what they may deem as the best or most appropriate formulation of the global SSE vision.

To build a common formulation, one possible methodology is the following: the Meeting participants will work in small groups (organized by table) to formulate their respective global SSE vision. Finally, the Meeting participants as a whole will decide (by casting votes) on the ‘best’ or ‘most appropriate’ formulation of the SSE global vision. To establish collectively the consents and divergences on the global vision, other methodologies should be used.

* Afternoon – Themes 2, 3 and 4

In the afternoon, the Meeting participants will be divided into three workgroups which will treat the remaining three themes: 2) SSE Experiences in the Territories; 3) Global Networking and Organizing; and 4) Communication and Visibility of SSE.

Questions and issues to be treated in each Theme follow below:

Theme 2: SSE Experiences in the Territories

This group will be focused on the ways that the existing initiatives of SSE do their economic activities and their integration in economic networks and supply-chains. In this Theme, territoriality and sustainable development is a key aspect that should be present transversally in the discussions.

 Questions/Issues of this Theme:

→ What actions/ innovations are being undertaken by SSE to link/connect (ethical) producers and (ethical) consumers? How to make further advances in this aspect?

→ What actions/innovations are being undertaken by SSE to link/ connect (ethical) production and solidarity/social finance? How to make further advances in this aspect?

→ What concrete actions/ innovations are being undertaken by SSE to create an alternative market for SSE products and services at the local, national, and international levels? How to make further advances in this aspect?

→ What actions/innovations are being undertaken by SSE contributing to territorial development? How to make further advances in this aspect?

Theme 3: Global Networking and Organizing

Global Networking refers to the way that the movement organizes itself locally, nationally and internationally. This has to do with political strategies, articulation with other movements and international institutions, and the structure of the different networks that are more effective in building up a strong and interconnected global network of SSE represented by Ripess.

Questions/Issues of this Theme:

→ What are the network initiatives that are necessary for reinforcing the global vision in the following dimensions:

. finances

. public policies

. research and education

→ What are strategic actors (social movements, institutions, government structures) with which we should strategically articulate?

→ What actions are undertaken by SSE enterprises to link/connect with local, national, and international networks? How SSE expands membership locally and internationally?

→ What are the challenges in establishing such institutional linkages?

Theme 4: Communication and visibility of SSE

One of the main challenges of SSE is its invisibility towards the common public, the public policy makers, and even in other social movements. This Theme will treat this challenge and propose ways to spread the message and contributions of SSE for another development model.

Questions/Issues of this Theme:

How to develop the visibility of:

→ the SSE experiences among each other (SSE initiatives knowing and learning from each other)

→ the SSE initiatives to society, common public, other movements and actors

→ the organization of SSE (its networks, where they are, what are the actors doing SSE and how it’s organized)

→ the global vision of SSE in respect to political issues of interest for society and development (political positions/views)

In each one of the three thematic workgroups, each continent will have chosen, before the Meeting, one concrete initiative that will be presented in each Theme. This means that for each thematic workshop, there will be at least 5 persons (one from each continent) who will share their perspective on the theme based on their concrete experience and practice. Therefore the continental experience will serve as the starting point of the discussions (bottom-up approach). The presenters should have prepared their presentations well ahead in time for translation into other official languages of the SSE International Meeting.

Each Thematic Group will be coordinated by two RIPESS Board members, preferably one Man and one Woman, from different Continents.

Finally, a Systematization Committee will work on the final proposals developed by the 3 Thematic Groups to have them ready for the Continental Meetings and Final Plenary the next day.

* Evening – Continental meetings

During the evening of the third day, the participants of each Continent will have a separate meeting at the same time (5 rooms). It’s a moment to build their evaluation of the discussions so far and to prepare the continental proposals and presentation in the next day.

Since there were already Continental Meetings prior to the 2013 International Meeting of SSE, the results of such Continental Meetings will also serve as reference to be considered by the participants.

2.4 Day 4

* Morning – Specific and concrete commitments, actions and goals for 2014-2017

The discussions and debates done during the first three days were of general nature. On the morning of the fourth day, the participants will discuss specific topics, in each one of the 4 Themes, sharing commitments and consolidating concrete agreements, goals to be achieved, a global agenda and other specific actions, which might be multilateral or bilateral.

* Afternoon – Final Plenary

The Final Plenary is the moment where the main results of the 4 days are presented: The state of the art of SSE in the 5 continents; The issues raised in the “SSE Territory” during the second day; The results and proposals of the 4 Themes; and the planned activities and commitments of the 5 continents.

It could be closed with an open microphone where people could freely do an evaluation of the Meeting, share commitments from their organization and contribute with other reflections on the results that were presented.

* Closing Ceremony

The Closing Ceremony could be a moment to show the richness of the different ways that SSE is lived in the 5 continents: with music, colors, testimonies. Participants could for example be advised to bring a national costume to be worn and prepare a cultural presentation, in music, dance, or poetry.

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After the declaration follow the signatures from more than 370 organizations and networks fom all over the world who expressed their support between June 16th and 25th.

The Economy we need

Declaration of the Social and Solidarity Economy movement at Rio +20

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The People’s Summit and the United Nations Conference for Sustainable Development of Rio+20 are being held at a time of crisis of our civilisation that takes multiple forms: food, ecology, energy, financial, social and of political representation. And it is not the same mindset or social model that created this crisis that will or can solve it!

The so-called green economy as presented by governments and multinational corporations is merely the extension of this model, through the commodification of the Commons; it is a new form of expansion of capitalism in crisis. Solidarity economy however is a means to free society of these constraints.

There are already many economic and social initiatives that exist on all continents, at community, regional and country level. They cover many sectors of activity and are the living proof of the concrete, vibrant possibility to build different development models, forms of organisation and society where life, plurality, self-management, environmental and social justice define solidarity economy, an economy that is different from that of capital. Solidarity economy is a social movement that together with others is contributing to the consolidation of a genuine economic and political democracy.

The creation of the United Nations Agency for the Environment proposed by UNEP will not provide the answer to the issue of global governance. It is essential that the tools and institutions of governance be transformed to become structurally grounded in on-going consultation and participation of all sectors of society at local, regional and international levels, and that they are not dominated by those whose financial contributions are the greatest, or managed by “experts”. People’s sovereignty must be respected, as well as that of communities who are the only ones to have the legitimate right and the capacity to implement the solidarity development that can guarantee the preservation of the Commons.

Solidarity economy is building production models and services with and for the people. These initiatives cannot be considered as simple “programmes for repairing damage and combating poverty”. On the contrary, they provide the intrinsic guarantee of justice at all levels of society, by developing economic activities that are neither generate the concentration of material or financial wealth, nor the creation of poverty. Solidarity economy establishes systems of fair trade, ethical finance and complementary currencies that genuinely serve the real economy, as well as short distribution circuits between producers and consumers, food sovereignty and other concrete alternatives.

The solidarity economy movement along with other movements that are changing society are the living proof of a genuine democratic project that respects human rights, labour rights, civil rights and cultural diversity as well as the rights of nature for the bien vivir of populations.

Rio+20 will only rise to the challenges that need to be addressed, if the governments that are taking part sign up to what is being built by the people as a genuine alternative for the future of humankind on Earth.

Rio de Janeiro, June 2012

The following organizations signed this declaration from June 16th to 25th:

• ABRASCO – Associacao Brasileira de Saude Coletiva (Brasil)
• ACA (Brasil)
• ACADEMIA DE LA TIERRA ONG (MÉXICO)
• ACDRA-ECOSOL (MEXICO)
• ADEL-Ixcán (Ixcán, Quiché, Guatemala)
• Adéquations (France)
• Agência de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento Sustentável – AADS (Brasil)
• Alborada (Argentina)
• ALCONA (México)
• Alessio Di Florio (Italia)
• Alliance of Coastal Fishers in the North Atlantic – ACFNA (North – Atlantic: Newfoundland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Norway)
• Alsur A.C. (México D.F.)
• Alternatives Développement (SENEGAL)
• AMARTE-Associação Amigos da Arte (Brasil- Pernambuco)
• AMB Articulação de Mulheres Brasileiras (Brasil)
• AMDAE (BOGOTA COLOMBIA)
• American worker cooperive-nj (New Jersey)
• ANIMAR (Portugal)
• APC Assoc Pró Cidadania (Minas Gerais / Brasil)
• APPEND (PHILIPPINES)
• APPLIR (Argentina)
• AQ’AB’AL, Empresa Centroamericana de ESS (Centroamerica)
• AQOCI (Canada)
• ARIADNA (Argentina)
• ARIA-Nord (France)
• Artana e Cia (Brasil)
• ARTE CIMARRON (TUMACO NARIÑO COLOMBIA)
• Arte Sustentável/EES (Brasil)
• Asamblea Permanente de la Sociedad Civil por La Paz (Colombia)
• ASARBOLSEM (BOLIVIA)
• Asedcohue (Guatemala)
• Asian Public Intellectuals Fellowships (Southeast Asia)
• Asian Social Enterprise Forum (Asia)
• Asociacion Central General de Trabajadores de Guatemala CGTG (Guatemala)
• Asociación Civil Bienaventurados los Pobres (Catamarca, Argentina)
• Asociacion CORDES (El Salvador. Centroamerica.)
• Asociacion de Adultos Mayores de 60 años Jesus vive de Brisa del Eden de Mendoza (Republica Dominicana)
• Asociación de Cooperativas-ASOCOPH y Empresas Solidaria del Huila (Colombia)
• Asociación de Desarrollo Agrícola y Microempresarial (ADAM) (Guatemala)
• Asociaciòn de Desarrollo Integral Simiatug Samai (Ecuador)
• ASOCIACION DE FOMENTO VECINAL EL PALMAR (ARGENTINA)
• Asociacion de Mujeres Afrocolombianas Kenia Tabia Binta “AMAKETABIN” (COLOMBIA)
• Asociacion de Mujeres Cabeza de Familia (Cali Colombia)
• asociacion de mujeres de Brisa del Eden de Mendoza Sto Dgo Oriental (Republica Dominicana)
• Asociaciòn de Productores de Hongos Comestibles de Colombia- ASOFUNGICOL (Colombia)
• Asociacion de Recicladores de Engativa (Colombia)
• Asociación de Tiendas de Abastecimiento Comunitarias (Honduras)
• ASOCIACIÓN MUJERES PROTAGONISTAS DEL DESARROLLO DE BUENAVENTURA -MUPRODEB (COLOMBIA-BUENAVENTURA-VALLE)
• Asociacion para el Desarrollo Rural del Camp d´Elx (españa)
• Asociacion Productores San Cayetano (Argentina)
• Asociacion Red Municipal de Mujeres de Caldono Cauca Colombia (Colombia)
• Asociatia CRIES-Centrul de Resurse pentru Initiative Etice si Solidare (Romania)
• ASOPRICOR (COLOMBIA)
• Assoc. Artes curado (Brasil)
• Associação Dando as Mãos (Brasil)
• Associação de Artesanato Entre Nós. (Brasil)
• Associação de Economia Solidária de Pinheiral (Brasil)
• Associação dos Produtores Agrícolas de Bebida Velha – APABV (Brasil)
• Associação Fibrart (Brasil / nordeste)
• Associação Filosófica ‘Scientiae Studia’ (Brazil)
• Associação In Loco (Portugal)
• Associação rede de sonhos (Brasil)
• Associação Regional Mucuri de Cooperação dos pequenos agricultores (Brasil)
• Association Theatre Aquarium (Maroc)
• Associazione Marco Mascagna (Italia)
• Banco Pirê (Brasil – MS – Dourados)
• Bay Area Community Exchange (United States of America)
• Bina Swadaya (Indonesia)
• Bitume (Mexico)
• Bordadeiras da Coroa-RJ (Brazil)
• Boston Area Solidarity Economy Network (USA)
• BREFADE (MALI)
• Brigadas Populares (Brasil)
• cadernos do caos (portugal)
• Caisse d’économie solidaire Desjardins (Québec, Canada)
• CAM (Central America)
• Canadian Community Economic Development Network (CCEDNET) (Canada)
• Canasta a Domicilio S.C de R.L. de C.V. (México)
• Capeltic (México)
• Caritas Arquidiocesana de Fortaleza (Brasil-Fortaleza/CE)
• Caritas Diocesana de Tubarão (Brasil / Região Sul)
• Casa de Taipa- Coletivo Para Promoção de Prática Solidária (Brasil)
• CAV (Brasil)
• CCFD – Terre Solidaire (Francia)
• CDR Outaouais-Laurentides (Québec, Canada)
• CEDAL-Centro de Derechos y Desarrollo (Perú)
• CEMEAR / SC (Brasil)
• Central de Comercialização de Economia Solidária (Brasil-MS)
• central de organizaciones campesinas y populares a.c. (mexico)
• Central dos Trabalhadores(as) da Economia Solidária (Brasil-MS)
• Centre canadien pour le renouveau communautaire – Canadian Centre For Community Renewal (Canada)
• Centre for Social Entrepreneuership (Malaysia)
• Centro de Desarrollo Comunitario Centéotl A. C. (México)
• Centro de Documentación en Derechos Humanos “Segundo Montes Mozo S.J.” (CSMM) (Ecuador)
• Centro de Educación Ambiental Manzana Verde (Chile, Región del Biobío)
• Centro de Educación Para la Paz, Tolerancia y Desarrollo (CEPATODE (República Dominicana)
• Centro de Enlace del Pequeño Productor (guatemala)
• Centro de Estudios y Publicaciones CEP Alforja (Costa Rica, Centroamérica)
• Centro de Investigación y Promoción Social (CIPROS) (República Dominicana)
• Centro de Promoção da Cidadania e Defesa dos Direitos Humanos Pe. Josimo (Brasil)
• Centro de Servicios para Emprendimientos de las Mujeres (Chiqiuimula, Guatemala)
• Centro de Tecnologias Alternativas da Zona da Mata (Brasil)
• Centro Dominico de Investigación (Costa Rica)
• CET Casa Ecológica Teotihuacan (Teotihuacan, Edo. de México, México)
• Chantier de l’économie sociale (Québec/Canada)
• CIRIEC Venezuela (Venezuela)
• Club di budapest (italy)
• Coalition SansParti (Canada)
• COKOMAL (COSTA RICA)
• COLACOT (COLOMBIA)
• Coletivo de pesquisadores em EJA e Economia Solidária – rede (Brasil, sudeste, SP, São CArlos-CAmpinas-São PAulo)
• Coletivo EITA (Brasil)
• Coletivo Leila Diniz (Brasil RN)
• COLICOOP- Colegio Profesional de Licenciados en Cooperativismo del Peru (PERU)
• Collège Coopératif PAM (PROVENCE)
• COMERCIO JUSTO URUGUAY (URUGUAY)
• Comité jeunesse du chantier de l’économie sociale (Canada)
• Comité San Carlos (Mexico)
• COMMACT Malaysia (Malaysia)
• Community to Community Development (United States)
• Comunidad Banbha (Argentina – Rosario)
• Conciencia Ecológica de Aguascalientes, a.c. (Aguascalientes, México)
• Confederación de Federaciones de la Reforma Agraria Salvadoreña – CONFRAS (El Salvador, Centro America)
• CONIDEA corporacion para la innovacion de la democracia y la empresa social y solidaria (Colombia)
• Conseil régional d’économie sociale Mauricie (Québec, Canada)
• Consejo Consultivo de Mujeres de tenjo (Colombia)
• Consejo de Consumidores para la Economía Solidaria (Costa Rica)
• Consejo de organizaciones de la Region Oriental “CORO” (Santo Dgo. Este. R.D.)
• Consejo E.Solidaria Canelones (uruguay)
• Consejo Global de desarrollo Integral “COGDI” (Santo Dgo. Este. R.D.)
• Consejo Hondureño del Sector Social de la Economía – COHDESSE (Honduras)
• Consejo Mexicano de Empresas de la Economía Solidaria (México)
• Consorzio Città dell’Altraeconomia (Italia)
• Consumo y Comunicación Alternativa, COKOMAL (Costa Rica)
• Controvento (Italy)
• CooLabora – Consultoria e Intervenção Social (Portugal)
• Cooperativa Atahualpa (Argentina)
• Cooperativa Bem Me Quero (Brasil)
• COOPERATIVA DE AGRICULTORES FAMILIARES E PESCADORES ARTESANAIS DA ECONOMIA SOLIDARIA DA REGIAO DO MATO GRANDE-RN – COOAFES (Brasil)
• Cooperativa de ahorro,credito y servicios multiples de organizaciones comunitarias “COOPMUNAS” (Santo Dgo. Este. R.D.)
• Cooperativa de Costureiras e Artesãos de Parnamirim (BRASIL)
• Cooperativa de trabajo encuentro (argentina)
• Cooperativa de Trabajo Juanito Contreras LTDA (Argentina)
• Cooperativa de trabajo mixta de Enseñanza. Atahualpa Limitada (argentina)
• Cooperativa Financiera COOFINEP (Colombia)
• Cooperativa La Vaca (Argentina)
• Cooperativa San pio X COOGRANADA (Colombia)
• Coordinadora de Organizaciones Barriales Don Bosco (CODONBOSCO) (República Dominicana)
• Coordinadora Nacional de Economía Solidaria (Uruguay – América del Sur)
• CORASAL (El Salvador)
• CORDES, El Salvador (El Salvador)
• Corporacion Agroindustrial CORASAL (EL SALVADOR. CENTROAMERICA.)
• Corporación de Investigación y Acción Social y Economica CIASE (Colombia)
• Corporacion para la innovacion de la democracia y la empresa social y solidaria CONIDEAS (COLOMBIA)
• Corporación RELACC (Ecuador – América latina)
• Cortocircuito flegreo (Campania ITALIA)
• COSPE-Sede Nicaragua (Nicaragua)
• CRED CIDADANIA (BRASIL)
• CRESAÇOR – Rede de Economia Solidária dos Açores (Açores -Portugal)
• CRESS CENTRE (FRANCE)
• CSEM/ADED VALLE Centro de Servico Para El Emprendedurismo De La Mujer (Honduras, Region Golfo de Fonseca)
• CTA-ZM – Centro de Tecnologias Alternativas da Zona da Mata (Minas Gerais – Brasil)
• CTC (BRASIL)
• Das Lanhas Assessoria e Consultoria (Brasil)
• Departamento de Justicia y Solidaridad – CELAM (America Latina)
• Día Mundial de Oración – Comité Alemán /Sección Proyectos (Alemania)
• DULZURA DEL MAR (TUMACO NARIÑO COLOMBIA)
• Eartheal (USA)
• ECAM (Bolivia)
• Eidé Ensayo Fotográfico y Audiovisual (Argentina)
• EL ANDAMIO SOCIAL (ARGENTINA)
• ELO (Brasil)
• Empreendimento solidário de costureiras e artesãos de parnamirim,RN (BRASIL)
• En Transition T.S.R. (Québec Canada)
• Équiterre (Canada)
• ERUUF Earth Justice (United States of America)
• Escola Municipal Professora Anita M. Dourado (Brasil)
• Espacio de Economía Solidaria y Comercio Justo (Paraguay)
• Espacio Nacional de Economía Social y Solidaria (Argentina)
• EYES (EUROPE)
• Fair (Italy)
• FENACOOP, R.L (NICARAGUA)
• Fondation rivières (Canada)
• Fora do Eixo (Brasil)
• Foro Social Mundial en Argentina (Aegentina)
• Fórum Brasileiro de Economia Solidária – FBES (Brasil)
• Fórum Brasileiro de Soberania e Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional – FBSSAN (Brasil)
• Fórum de Economia Solidária da Região do ABCDMRR e Baixada Santista (Brasil)
• Fórum de Economia Solidaria de São José dos Pinhais (Brasil)
• Fórum de Economia Solidária do Distrito Federal e Entorno (Brasil)
• Fórum Estadual de Economia Solidária de MS (Brasil-MS)
• Fórum Municipal de Economia Solidária de Balneário Camboriú (Santa Catarina, Brasil)
• FORUM PERMANENTE DE CIDADANIA DE COLINAS (BRASIL – MARANHÃO)
• Fórum Sul Mineiro de Economia Solidária (Minas Gerais / Brasil)
• Fruta Comida Semilla Sembrada (Ecuador)
• Fundación Ahora, A.C. (Aguascalientes/México)
• FUNDACION ARTE Y CULTURA DEL PACIFICO (BOGOTA COLOMBIA)
• Fundación Bandera Ecológica (Costa Rica)
• FUNDACION DE LA MANO CONTIGO (COLOMBIA)
• Fundación para el Desarrollo Sostenible de Osa (Costa Rica)
• FUNDACION POR LOS DERECHOS DEL CONSUMIDOR (FUNDECOM) (REPUBLICA DOMINICANA)
• Fundacion Pueblo Joven (Salta, Argentina)
• Fundacion Sagrada Familia (Argentina, Buenos Aires)
• Fundación Síntesis (Argentina)
• Fundacion Solon (Bolivia)
• Fundacion TPH Concepcion (Chile)
• FUNDACION TRABAJO PARA UN HERMANO DE CONCEPCION (CONCEPCION, CHILE)
• Fundacion utopia (ecuador)
• Grassroots Economic Organizing (USA)
• Greenpeace (Montréal, Québec)
• Groupe d’économie solidaire du Québec (Québec)
• Groupe ÉCOSPHÈRE (Canada)
• Grupo Cooperativo Jade (México)
• Grupo de promocion de la Agricultura Ecologica (GPAE) (Nicaragua)
• grupo fitoterapico (Santa Catarina)
• Grupo Red de Economía Solidaria del Perú (GRESP) (Perú)
• GUAMINA (Mali)
• Guramylay: Growing the Green Economy (USA)
• Haida Gwaii Community Futures (Canada)
• HUJ (Arménie)
• ICATMI (MEXICO)
• IMS (Brasil)
• Incubadora Tecnológica de Cooperativas Populares (Chile, Región del Biobío)
• Incubadora Tecnológica de Cooperativas Populares UNIVALI (Brasil)
• Incubadora Tecnológica de Cooperativas Populares Universidade do Estado da Bahia (Brasil)
• Institute for Integrated Rural Development – IIRD (India)
• Institut Européen pour l’Économie Solidaire – INEES (Luxembourg)
• Instituto Chileno de Permacultura (Chile, Región del Biobío)
• Instituto de Desarrollo de la economía Asociativa – IDEAC (Rep. Dominicana)
• Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)
• Instituto para el Desarrollo y la Paz Amazonica (San Martin – Peru)
• Intecoop/Unifei – Incubadora Tecnológica de Cooperativas Populares da Universidade Federal de Itajubá (Brasil)
• INTER-ACTION DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE (FRANCE)
• ISDEN (Perú)
• ITCP/UNEB (Brasil)
• ITCP USP (Brasil)
• Juntos (Brasil)
• Katosi Women Development trust (Uganda)
• KIFESZ (Hungary)
• Kolping México (México)
• Kooperi – Coletivo para a promoção de práticas solidárias e autogestionárias (Brasil, sudeste, SP, São CArlos)
• Latindadd (Perú)
• L’Égrégore (Canada)
• Maestria en Entidades de la Economía Social U.N.R (Argentina)
• MAIS Consultoria Social (Brasil)
• Marco Polo Echanger Autrement (France)
• MD (Québec)
• Mesa de Coordinación Latinoamericana de Comercio Justo – RIPESS LAC (América Latina y el Caribe, Perú)
• Mesa Nacional de Trabajo Cooperativo y Solidario (Colombia)
• Migrations et Développement (Maroc)
• MIJARC (AFRICA,AISA, EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA)
• MINISTERIO DE AGRICULTURA Y GANADERÍA (COSTA RICA)
• MIREDES Internacional (América Latina)
• MIREDES (México)
• Mó de Vida Cooperativa de Consumo, CRL (Portugal)
• Mouvement de l’Économie Solidaire – MES (France)
• Movimiento Ambiental de Aguascalientes (México)
• Movimiento de Economía Social y Solidaria del Ecuador – MESSE (Ecuador)
• Movimiento de Economía Solidaria y Comercio Justo de Bolivia (Bolivia)
• Movimiento de Trabajadores Campesinos (Guatemala)
• Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano (Mesoamerica)
• Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano (México)
• Mujeres afros de Salahonda (Colombia, Dpto de Nariño)
• Mujeres sanadoras (México)
• National Association of Small Boat Owners, NASBO (Iceland)
• Nonante inc (Canada)
• NORDIK Institute (Canada)
• Núcleo de Formação em ECOSOL Ceará (Brasil)
• Núcleo de Solidariedade Técnica da UFRJ – Soltec/UFRJ (Brasil)
• Nuestras Huellas (Argentina)
• NUEVA CIVILIZACION (URUGUAY)
• NUPAUB- Núcleo de Estudos de Populações Humanas e Áreas ùmidas (BRASIL)
• Objectif Plein Emploi (Luxembourg)
• Observatorio Laboral y Ambiental de la Argentina (Argentina)
• Odilia Leiva Calles (Peten..Guatemala)
• Ong Fundepaz (Colombia)
• ONG. JUVENTUDE SEM FRONTEIRAS (BRASIL)
• ONG Programas Sociales Comunitarios (Salta, Argentina)
• Opus Gay (Portugal)
• P’ACTES (Europe)
• Pastoral social (La Ceiba – Honduras)
• Pastoral Social /zona sur, Petén (Petén, Guatemala)
• PECOSOL – Capitulo Honduras (Honduras)
• PECOSOL (Centroamérica)
• Pecosol, Guatemala (Guatemala)
• Plataforma Interamericana de Derechos Humanos, Democracia y Desarrollo – PIDHDD (Ecuador)
• Plateforme des Organisation de la Société Civile sur les Droits Economiques, sociaux et Culturels au Cameroun (Cameroun)
• Plumes & Jardins (Quebec, Canada)
• PODER, A.C. (MEXICO)
• PROCOSOL (Panama)
• Production de L’Amarante (Québec)
• Productions à deux têtes (Québec)
• Prof contre la hausse (Montreal/ Québec / Canada)
• Projeto Ramá (Brasil)
• Promoción del Desarrollo Popular, A.C. (México)
• Raid (Tunisie)
• REAS BALEARS (ESPAÑA)
• REDCOOP (MÉXICO)
• Red Cuna (Argentina)
• Red de Comercialización Comunitaria Alternativa – Red COMAL (Honduras)
• RED DE COMERCIO JUSTO DEL SUR SURESE (CHILE)
• Red de Coordinación en Biodiversidad (Costa Rica, Centroamérica)
• Red de Economia Solidaria de la Macro Region Nor Oriental-Peru (PERU)
• Red de Economía Solidaria del Biobío (Chile)
• Red de Fundaciones Centroamericanas y del Caribe para la Economía Social y Solidaria (Centroamérica y Caribe)
• Red de Fundaciones y Asociaciones de Economía Social Solidaria (Centramerica y Caribe)
• Red de integracion de la economia social y solidaria (Colombia)
• RED DE LA ESPERANZA (MÉXICO)
• Red de Mujeres para el Desarrollo (América Latina y Caribe)
• Red de Organizaciones de Economía Solidaria – REDESOL (Rep. Dominicana)
• Red de Redes de Economía Alternativa y Solidaria – REAS (España)
• Rede de educadores/as de economia solidária PE (NE do Brasil)
• Rede de Educadores em Economia Solidária (Brasil)
• Rede Dicção (Brasil)
• Rede Nacional das Incubadoras Tecnológicas de cooperativas Populares/ITCP-Unochapeco (Brasil)
• Red Jubileo Perú (Perú)
• RedLASES – Red LatinoAmericana de Socioeconomía Solidaria (Argentina / Brasil)
• Red micro creditos no podemos fracasar (Argentina)
• Red Nacional de Investigadores y Educadores en Cooperativismo y Economía Solidaria (REDCOOP) (México)
• Red Peruana de Comercio Justo y Consumo Ético (Perú)
• RED Trasandina de Tecnología Social (Chilena-Argentina)
• Red Uniendo Manos contra la Pobreza (Perú)
• Reina de El Cisne (Loja – Ecuador)
• REL UITA (Latinoamerica)
• REMECC A.C. (Mexico)
• RENAPESS MALI (MALI)
• RENICC (Nicaragua)
• Reorient Onlus (Italia)
• Retos al Sur (Uruguay)
• RIPESS-Asia/Asian Solidarity Economy Coalition – ASEC (Asia)
• RIPESS Europe – Solidarity Economy Europe (Europe)
• Rizosfera (Chile)
• RTES (France)
• RUPTURA (ECUADOR)
• Scop Energies Alternatives 06 (France)
• Secretaria de Educação do Estado de Pernambuco (Brasil)
• Secretaria Nacional de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (Brasil)
• SEDYS – Trujillo- Servicio Educativo para el Desarrollo y la Solidaridad (PERU)
• Seminario Permanente para la Gobernabilidad mediante el Desarrollo Sustentable. Con base en una metodología de investigación interdisciplinaria. (Mexico City)
• Sindicato dos Trabalhadores e Trabalhadoras Rurais de Bento Fernandes (Brasil)
• SODEV MAROC (MAROC)
• Solidaridad y comercio justo (Ecuador)
• Solidarius Italia (Italy)
• Soutenable.net (France)
• STREET LIGHT REFLECTIONS (THAILAND)
• Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment – SWAGEN (Uganda, East Africa)
• SURJA EDUCACION CIUDADANA (MEXICO)
• Syndicat Unique des Travailleurs de la Santé et de l’Action Sociale (SENEGAL)
• TENDENCIAS AFRO (Santiago de Cali, Colombia)
• Tierra Luna (México)
• Trabajo Comunal Universitario COMER ORGÁNICO, Universidad de Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
• Transition movement (Canada)
• Très-Saint-Rédempteur en Transition (Canada)
• UDELAR (URUGUAY)
• UNCPM – Union Nationale des Coopératives des Planteurs et Maîchers du Mali (Mali)
• UNEMAT/REMSOL/FEES-MT/NECOMT/IOCAS (BRASIL)
• Unidad de Apoyo a las Comunidades Indígenas (Mexico)
• Union Nacional Agroalimentaria de Colombia (Colombia)
• UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL (ARGENTINA)
• Universidad Centroamericana (UCA) / Vice Rectoría de Proyección Social (El Salvador)
• UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES (ARGENTINA)
• Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (España)
• Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico)
• Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco/FBES (Brasil)
• Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina)
• Universitas Nueva Civilización (Chile)
• University of Valencia (Spain)
• UQAM, Institut des sciences de l’environnement (Québec-Canada)
• Urgenci International Network for Community Supported Agriculture (Global)
• USP (Brasil)
• US Solidarity Economy Network (United States of America)
• Visão Mundial (Brasil)
• VQP (Argentina)
• WESPAC Foundation (USA)
• World Forum of Fish Harvesters and Fish Workers (WFF) (International organization)
• Xarxa Economia Solidaria (Cataluña, España)

Ben Quiñones of the Asian Solidarity Economy Network (ASEAN) will take on the next executive coordination mandate of the RIPESS. As executive coordinator, in collaboration with all board members, he will ensure that the RIPESS action plan approved by the Board in 2012 is carried out. This includes, amongst other things, the organisation of the Fifth Meeting on the Globalisation of Solidarities that will take place inManila,Philippinesin November 2013.

Ben has a PhD in Organization Development and is currently President, On Eagles Wings Development FoundationPhilippinesand Chairman of the Coalition of Socially Responsible Small and Medium Enterprises inAsia. He is a founding member of the Asian Solidarity Economy Forum and a member of the RIPESS intercontinental board since 2009.

Ben Quiñones will be supported by a new Operations Manager, Daniel Tygel from Brazil. To carry out its work, RIPESS is happy to be able to count on the financial support of the Fondation pour le progrès de l’homme (France).