Building an alternative development model
The challenge we are now facing is not how to build back pre-Covid socioeconomic structures, but rather how to build an alternative model of development, driven by the needs of all peoples and communities around the world, and the protection of our planet.
This is the reason why we must develop and strengthen SSE ecosystems at all levels, building on what already exists.
Intercontinental Webinars—
As part of the project “RIPESS SSE Global Vision 2020“, RIPESS Intercontinental is launching a series of webinars to promote how SSE brings solutions to the global challenges we are facing.
Unlocking the full potential of the Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) towards sustainable development with UNTFSSE and other entities and institutions
RIPESS Intercontinental is taking part in this hybrid event in which the ambassadors of France, Senegal and Chile, as well as the representative of the Spanish Government, the World Bank and other important actors on the world stage around the SSE join their support for a systemic change towards an economy that puts people and planet care at the centre. [...]
The urgency of decoding the differences between Social Solidarity Economy and Social Entrepreneurship: on the webinar of 9th July 2024
On 9 July, RIPESS held an online discussion entitled "Decoding the differences between social and solidarity economy (SSE), social entrepreneurship and related initiatives". In it, the author of the text of the same name, Yvon Poirier, gave a short presentation in which the most important points can be summarised as follows: The Social Solidarity Economy is a renewed response to [...]
“Decoding the differences between the Social Solidarity Economy (ESS), Social Entrepreneurship and related initiatives”
Online conversation on Yvon Poirier's analysis, RIPESS Intercontinental on 9 July 12:30 pm Geneva in ENG-FR-CA July 9 12:30h Geneva time / Online conversion ENG-FR-CAST Given the significant space that social entrepreneurship has taken up in recent years and the lack of conceptual clarity and values surrounding the current ESS ecosystem, it was necessary to provide a good basis for [...]
Podcasts—
Podcast (in spanish)_ Interview with Ernestina in Dakar: Afro-Peruvian leader and care worker.
She understands the language of humanity, of the heart, and with smiles, Spanish and speaking with her hands, she got anywhere, even in a small village on the outskirts of Dakar, in Senegal. That is where we met Ernestina. She is attentive, observant, petite, athletic woman. She is calm and confident, she listens before she speaks, with her ears, but [...]
Podcast – New Economy Network of Australia
Interview Brownen Morgan & Michelle Maloney New Economy Network of Australia, the only Oceania representative of RIPESS, was launched informally in October 2017 at the Brisbane Conference and was legally constituted as a cooperative in January 2019. NENA's priorities for 2022 include the well-being economy in Australia; networking workshops and indicators; growing the "Regen Cities" movement - Regen Melbourne, Regen [...]
Tools—
In RIPESS we collect tools developed by the different networks and global spaces in which we participate to put them at the service of the Social and Solidarity Economy and its agents.
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 [...]
Milestone and successful RIPESS LAC presentation of the DIPLOMATE in PUBLIC POLICIES AND SOCIAL AND SOLIDARITY POPULAR ECONOMY
Text by Majo Varela, RIPESS LAC https://youtu.be/AtRSpe4cIuY?si=akcLivN42O35oUO3 The Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean is marking the intercontinental path by presenting the Diploma in Public Policies and the Popular, Social and Solidarity Economy with great success on 28 September in an online event. This diploma course has been a huge success [...]
Unlocking the full potential of the Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) towards sustainable development with UNTFSSE and other entities and institutions
RIPESS Intercontinental is taking part in this hybrid event in which the ambassadors of France, Senegal and Chile, as well as the representative of the Spanish Government, the World Bank and other important actors on the world stage around the SSE join their support for a systemic change towards an economy that puts people and planet care at the centre. [...]
