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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And for you, what is care? First webinar of the year on care and Social Solidarity Economy
This webinar will be held on 29 January at 15h CET (21h Indonesia, 11h Chile, 9h Canada) and requires pre-registration here. The gender commission of RIPESS Intercontinental, which brings together women and gender non-conforming people from all RIPESS continental networks around the world, is organising this intergenerational dialogue on the weaving of care networks from solidarity economies together with RIPESS Europe. Recognition of the importance of [...]
The UN continues to provide advocacy frameworks for the Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) by adopting a new resolution
Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) is increasingly at the forefront of the political agenda. After much work by RIPESS, as detailed by Yvon Poirier, RIPESS advisor in this recent publication, the first UN Resolution A/RES/77/281 ‘Promoting the Social Solidarity Economy for Sustainable Development’ was adopted last April 2023. Thanks to this and the ‘Resolution on decent work and the social and [...]
RIPESS accompanies the meeting on Solidarity Economic Circuits of REAS Euskadi and the Comparte Network in Colombia
This country was the arena for the Social Solidarity Economy last October and November. First, and within the framework of the international ECOOVIDA meeting and the COP16 on Biodiversity, both held in Cali at the end of October 2024, the entire RIPESS Intercontinental secretariat went to Colombia to develop a strong international advocacy work accompanying RIPESS LAC partners, who had [...]
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.
