RIPESS promotes a participatory approach for the co-construction of SSE public policies
Why does RIPESS consider this important?
Over the last 30 years or so, SSE has grown all over the world. Sometimes this approach is considered as local development, community development, solidarity […]
Strengthening the SSE Networks and converging Movements: the Orientation of the New RIPESS Coordinator
RIPESS is continuing to building alliances between alter-economic movements, and has appointing Jason Nardi of RIPESS Europe as its new coordinator.
Jason has a long-standing commitment to the emergence of the […]
RIPESS continues to promote the SSE as a key actor of inclusive Local Development – World LED Forum
RIPESS attended a working meeting of the World LED Forum in Seville from 16th – 18th May 2018.
The World Local Economic Development Forum is an open working process that promotes […]
SSE mappings by Socioeco: SDG, Public Policies, Journalism, Training
Your interest in social and solidarity economy may have led you to use the socioeco.org resource web site. Since its beginnings in 2011, the site has evolved a […]
A tribute to Paul Singer, a founder activist and thinker behind SSE
Professor Paul Singer passed away on Monday April 16. He had been at the hearth of the Solidarity Economy movement in Brazil from the start.
During the Lula Presidency, he was […]
No Agroecology without farmers ! No Agroecology without Conscious Consumers !
The 2nd International Symposium on Agroecology took place at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) headquarters in Rome, 3-5 April 2018.
700 participants, representing Member States, FAO agencies, farmers’ unions, civil society […]
April 10: Join the webinar about women realities and challenges in SSE governance
For the 4th session of our Women & ESS seminar cycle, we will discuss the issue of governance in SSE with activists in the field.
We are pleased to invite you […]
A feminist economy: a prerequisite for solidarity economy. Report on the 3rd RIPESS webinar on Women and SSE
Four feminist speakers, all practitioners and experts in SSE from very different backgrounds shared their reflections with us on the feminist economy from a gender perspective on SSE in this […]
From Salvador to Barcelona 2019 : another economy is paving the way
At the World Social Forum in Salvador de Bahia, the global thematic forum on transforming economies (Barcelona – April 2019) was presented.
From the 12th to the 17th of March the thirteenth […]
RIPESS at the WSF2018: Promoting the Convergence of Social and Solidarity Economy Movements
The World Social Forum 2018, will be held from March 13 to 17, 2018, in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, where several members of RIPESS LAC will be attending, as […]
Register to the webinar on Gender Perspective and Feminist Economics-Feb 13th
With these action-webinars, RIPESS is inviting you to participate to a virtual meetings’ cycle (2017/2018), in which we want to leave enough time to listen to experts’ testimonials on different […]
Translate the first RIPESS Women&SSE webinars into action!
In the third quarter of 2017, the RIPESS working group “Women&SSE – SSE with a Gender Perspective” launched and planned a series of webinars on diferent topics of interest that […]
The call for proposals for GSEF 2018 is open until February 28th
The call for proposals for the 4th edition of the Global Social Economy Forum (GSEF) is open until February 28th, 2018. RIPESS, as a close partner of GSEF, warmly encourages […]
RIPESS involvement in the 4th LED World Forum: contribution of the SSE to Local Development and SDGs
The 4th Global Meeting on Local Economic Development (LED) was held in Praia, Cabo Verde, from 17 to 20 October 2017.
The theme of this year’s meeting is:
Local Economic Development […]
Memorandum of Understanding between FAO and Urgenci
Press Release:
Memorandum of Understanding signed in Rome : Urgenci officially recognized as long-term partner by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
30 October 2017 will remain a singular […]
RIPESS, an active member of the new Advisory Group of the UN SSE Taskforce
We are pleased to announce that the UN Interagency Taskforce on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) agreed on August 31th to formally recognize an Advisory Group (AG) of SSE […]
Praia Manifesto, a commitment to an Inclusive and Sustainable Local Economic Development (LED)
The major international networks of Social and Solidarity Economy and Finance (SSEF) commit to an Inclusive, Resilient, Low Carbon and Sustainable Local Economic Development (LED).
Meeting in Praia, Cabo […]
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new RIPESS Intercontinental website
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new RIPESS Intercontinental website: ripess.org.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of our movement we decided to redesign our website to give you […]