Promotion of SSE at different levels
As a global network covering all continents, RIPESS is uniquely placed to undertake advocacy at different levels from local communities to international institutions, to ensure the promotion of SSE for sustainable, inclusive and transformative development from local to global levels.
Together with our members and international partners, we are working to raise the voice of SSE in international arenas, and to enhance cooperation between States and SSE networks and actors to support the construction of ecosystems that promote SSE development as the alternative development model, driven by the needs of peoples and communities, and the protection of our planet.
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ASEC at the ASEAN SDG-SSE Forum 2025
The Asian Solidarity Economy Council (ASEC), RIPESS member, will participate in the ASEAN SDGs-SSE Forum, that will take place from 22 to 23 May in Kuala Lumpur to promote the Social Solidarity Economy to advance the Agenda 2030. This ASEAN SDGs-SSE Forum serves as a platform for fostering multi-stakeholder collaboration among policymakers, academics, CSOs and NGOs, private sector leaders, and [...]
[19 May, 2025] Webinar: Mainstreaming the social and solidarity economy in the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4)
This webinar is aimed at the FfD4 negotiators. The webinar’s objective is to follow up on UNGA resolution 79/213, adopted in December 2024, that “encourages Member States to consider how the social and solidarity economy could contribute to and feature in relevant upcoming multilateral processes, such as the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development”. Webinar Details Date: Monday, May [...]
Social Protection Manifesto on Workers’ Day 2025
The Intercontinental Network for the promotion of Social Solidarity Economy, RIPESS LAC, is a collective and global response from social and solidarity economy networks and movements to the economic, social, and ecological inequalities of the dominant capitalist system. Social Protection includes public policies such as cash transfers, subsidies, employment programs, access to education and health, housing, and social security itself, [...]
Ongoing projects—
Advocacy work in international arenas—
We are leading the construction of SSE support ecosystems in different international arenas jointly with the continental and thematic member networks. This includes:
RIPESS has been participating in the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on SSE as an observer since its creation in 2013. We work side by side with UN Agencies and other international SSE networks to strengthen the SSE agenda in discussions and policy building at the global level.
Le RIPESS a été étroitement associé à l’initiative depuis le début de ce processus en 2019, et co-modère le groupe de travail sur la gouvernance avec le secrétariat d’État français à l’ESS.
RIPESS is a member of GSEF and vice versa, and we working together to promote intense cooperation between social economy organizations and local governments. RIPESS has been actively present in all GSEF forums, has participated in the organising committees from the first one in Seoul to the most recent one in 2021 in México.
As an observer member in the Economic and Social Council, we have been advocating in the different sessions of the HLPF (through the NGO constituency) urging for the need to include SSE in international strategies for the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals. We are also working to ensure the inclusion of SSE in Voluntary National Reviews (VNR) presented by the Member States.
RIPESS, like many other civil society and local government organisations committed to political action and social change through the promotion, defence and enforcement of the Right to the City at all levels, is part of the Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C). It aims to inspire a better future for all human settlements; it is an open, flexible and diverse network with a special focus on people and communities affected by exclusion and marginalisation. We are united by the values of cooperation, collaboration, horizontality, transparency, accountability, equity, participation, empowerment and solidarity.
