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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2021, a year of significant progress
RIPESS accelerated its activities in international political advocacy and in SSE public policies promotion during 2021 thanks to the cooperation agreement signed by RIPESS and the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation in 2020. For the first time since the creation of RIPESS Intercontinental 25 years ago, the network received funding for a structured advocacy and public policies project. There was [...]
RIPESS participated in the MedTOWN International Seminar on Social Economy and Solidarity
On January 26, 2022, Judith Hitchman, Joint Coordinator of RIPESS, attended MedTOWN International Seminar on Social and Solidarity Economy held online. The debate also included the reflections of Vic van Vuuren (President of UNTFSSE and Director of the Department of Business of the ILO), Amal Chevreau (Policy Analyst at the Social Economy & Innovation Unit, OECD ), and Victor Meseguer (Director of Social Economy [...]
The role of Social Solidarity Economy organisations in the Post COVID19 context
Covid 19 in Latin America and the Caribbean, as in the whole world, has generated a great social, economic and health impact, which has caused thousands of deaths and a deep recession. The COVID 19 pandemic is not the cause; on the contrary, what it has revealed is the fragility of the capitalist economic model, which has aggravated its numerous [...]
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.