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.
“SSE is a driver of change: if done with passion, it presents real alternatives and answers to the sustainable development goals and we must strive to maximise it”
It was one of the conclusions heard at the presentation of the UN resolution for the Social Solidarity Economy held last Friday 20 October in Barcelona; the starting moment for the Catalan Solidarity Economy Forum, the FESC. These words were delivered by Madani Coumaré, President of the African SSE Network and Intercontinental Coordinator of RIPESS (Intercontinental Network for the Promotion [...]
SOCIAL INNOVATION EXPERIENCES FROM THE SOCIAL AND SOLIDARITY ECONOMY
Virtual Side Event for the 8th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals Organized by Diesis Network, the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS), the Canadian CED Network, and the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Social Solidarity Economy. 8th Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals Added on [...]
Success in the last webinar that Ripess and sister organisations propose on future opportunities and challenges for the Social Solidarity Economy.
Almost 200 people came together on 23 February to listen and discuss the future challenges for the different actors of the Social and Solidarity Economy. Civil society, trade unions, small producers and entrepreneurs, cooperatives, ILO and other UN agencies, states, regional bodies and local authorities, following the General Conclusions of the International Labour Conference 2022 and the ILO action plan [...]
Podcasts—
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.
RIPESS TAKES PART IN UNTFSSE’S WEBINAR ON THE PROGRESS MADE ONE YEAR AFTER THE UN DECLARATION ON THE SOCIAL AND SOLIDARITY ECONOMY
This webinar celebrates the first anniversary of the UN General Assembly ratified Resolution A/RES/77/281 "Promoting the social and solidarity economy for sustainable development". The process was ably led by the French, Senegalese and Spanish governments at the UN under Yolanda Diaz, Minister of Labour and Social Economy and Second Vice-President of the Spanish Government. Next 18th April at 13:30 (CEST), [...]
USSEN’s SOLIDARITY ECONOMY 101 SLIDES
The US Solidarity Economy Network, US member of RIPESS, has been running the Solidarity Economy 101 course for four years now. It is meant for organisations, networks and entities of SSE who want to engage with groups and learn together about Solidarity Economy, as well as reflect collectively about capitalism and the alternatives to it. The Resist and Build Education [...]
“SSE is a driver of change: if done with passion, it presents real alternatives and answers to the sustainable development goals and we must strive to maximise it”
It was one of the conclusions heard at the presentation of the UN resolution for the Social Solidarity Economy held last Friday 20 October in Barcelona; the starting moment for the Catalan Solidarity Economy Forum, the FESC. These words were delivered by Madani Coumaré, President of the African SSE Network and Intercontinental Coordinator of RIPESS (Intercontinental Network for the Promotion [...]
