Who we are
RIPESS LAC is a continental network that brings together various community-based, associative, co-operative and mutual organisations as well as citizens’ movements that work towards the implementation of solidarity economy in Latin America. We contribute the production and sharing of resources and knowledge that creates the basis of an alternative movement to the current capitalist system.
Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Brazil
- GRESP (Grupo Red de Economía Solidaria del Perú)
- MESSE (Movimiento de Economía Social Solidaria del Ecuador)
- RET (Red de Economías Territoriales Wallmapu de Chile)
- MNESC (Mesa Nacional de Economía Solidaria de Colombia)
- REDESOL (Red de Organizaciones de Economía Solidaria de República Dominicana)
- Foro Brasileño de Economía Solidaria (FBES)
- Movimiento de Economía Solidaria y Comercio Justo de Bolivia (MESyCEJB)
- Red de Economía Social Solidaria (RedESS) de Costa Rica
- Red Peruana de Comercio Justo y Consumo Ético (RPCJyCE)
- Centro de Investigación Económica Mundial (CIEM) de Cuba
- Coordinadora de Economía Solidaria y Comercio Justo (CESCJ) de Uruguay
- Red Mexicana de Comercio Comunitario (REMECC)
- Confederación AGROSOLIDARIA de Colombia
- PECOSOL de Guatemala
- Instituto de Economía Social y Cooperativismo (INDESCO) Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
- Red Nacional de Investigadores y Educadores en Cooperativismo y Economía Solidaria (REDCOOP) de México
- Red Nicaragüense de Comercio Comunitario (RENICC)
- Red ECOSOL México
- Red Cubana de Economía Social y Solidaria y Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (ESORSE)
- Comunidad Nacional de Circuitos Económicos Solidarios (CONACES)
- Red Nacional de Investigadores y Educadores en Cooperativismo y Economía Solidaria (REDCOOP) de México
- Instituto de Cooperativismo de la Universidad de Puerto Rico
- Red de Economía Social Solidaria del municipio de Mecapaca RESS-Mecapaca
- Foro de Economías Transformadoras y Alternativas de Colombia FSMET
News from Latin Amercia and the Caribbean—
Colombia and RIPESS sign international cooperation agreement to strengthen the Popular, Social and Solidarity Economy
Cartagena de Indias, 28 February 2026 Today, 28 February at 9:00 a.m., in the Quintín Lame room (third floor) of the Cartagena de Indias Convention Centre, the official signing ceremony for the international cooperation agreement between the Administrative Department for Social Prosperity of the Government of Colombia and the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS) [...]
RIPESS in Cartagena de Indias – ECOOVIDA, Forum of Peoples and Social Movements and ICARRD+20
From 21 to 28 February 2026, Cartagena de Indias will be the epicenter of international debates on economies for life, agrarian justice, and peoples’ sovereignty. RIPESS will actively participate in three key spaces: ECOOVIDA 2026, the Forum of Peoples and Social Movements: United for Land, Water, Territories and Dignity, and the International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD+20). [...]
RIPESS participates in ECOOVIDA 2026: Solidarity to Sow Life
RIPESS will once again participate in the International Meeting of Economies for Life – ECOOVIDA 2026, which will take place in Cartagena (Colombia) from 21 to 23 February 2026, under the theme “Solidarity to sow life.” This participation continues the active involvement of RIPESS members in the previous editions, ECOOVIDA 2024 and 2025, where experiences, learnings and proposals from the [...]
