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 solidarity economy ’ of the 110th International Labour Conference in June 2022, a legal framework was created that previously did not exist and that supports the advocacy and change action of thousands of practitioners and activists for the eco-social transformation for which the SSE works and advocates.
Today, at 13:31h,NY; 17:31h CET; the UN General Assembly has once again endorsed this transformative vision with a new resolution, “Sustainable development: promoting the social and solidarity economy for sustainable development”:
Largely, thanks to the advocacy work of the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Social Solidarity Economy. This working group has just celebrated its 50th successful meeting with these resolutions as a backdrop, as well as Yvon Poirier’s publication above mentioned and the delivery, a few weeks ago, of the first report of the Secretary General 2024 on the Social Solidarity Economy (SSE).
Issues such as the lack of social protection in informal majority economies; food poverty or inequalities and violations of rights of discriminated communities can be tackled through a socio-economic transformation based on sustainable development and the protection of life and the planet over economic profit: the real possibility of a transformative alternative to the challenges of the poly-crisis world in which we live in harmony with the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.
These resolutions create legal frameworks to work at regional and state level from the SSE grassroots networks, being used as advocacy tools to continue, to amplify, the place of the SSE in sustainable development before those in power who must see the overwhelming logic of our arguments, valid in all latitudes and confines.
