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—
RIPESS LAC creates new working commissions and increases its activities across the continent
After the VII Latin American and Caribbean Meeting on Social Solidarity Economy last February (VII ELACESS), our member RIPESS LAC has laid the foundations to confront some crucial months for the promotion of SSE in LAC. Among them, the working commissions they have created are of the highest importance, as well as their presence in different forums on SSE across [...]
The next GSEF 2020 Forum, an opportunity for Latin America and the Caribbean
The Global Social Economy Forum (GSEF) and Mexico City have signed on July 9th the Memorandum for Understanding (MoU) for the Forum GSEF2020 which will take place from 21 to 23 October 2020 in Mexico City. […]
SSE networks in Latin America renew their commitments
SSE organizations from 13 Latin American countries have come together for an economy founded on economic and social relations of cooperation between human beings and between human beings and nature. […]
