Who we are
RIPESS LAC is a continental network that brings together various community-based, associative, co-operative and mutual organisations as well as citizens’ movements that work towards the implementation of solidarity economy in Latin America. We contribute the production and sharing of resources and knowledge that creates the basis of an alternative movement to the current capitalist system.
Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Brazil
- GRESP (Grupo Red de Economía Solidaria del Perú)
- MESSE (Movimiento de Economía Social Solidaria del Ecuador)
- RET (Red de Economías Territoriales Wallmapu de Chile)
- MNESC (Mesa Nacional de Economía Solidaria de Colombia)
- REDESOL (Red de Organizaciones de Economía Solidaria de República Dominicana)
- Foro Brasileño de Economía Solidaria (FBES)
- Movimiento de Economía Solidaria y Comercio Justo de Bolivia (MESyCEJB)
- Red de Economía Social Solidaria (RedESS) de Costa Rica
- Red Peruana de Comercio Justo y Consumo Ético (RPCJyCE)
- Centro de Investigación Económica Mundial (CIEM) de Cuba
- Coordinadora de Economía Solidaria y Comercio Justo (CESCJ) de Uruguay
- Red Mexicana de Comercio Comunitario (REMECC)
- Confederación AGROSOLIDARIA de Colombia
- PECOSOL de Guatemala
- Instituto de Economía Social y Cooperativismo (INDESCO) Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia
- Red Nacional de Investigadores y Educadores en Cooperativismo y Economía Solidaria (REDCOOP) de México
- Red Nicaragüense de Comercio Comunitario (RENICC)
- Red ECOSOL México
- Red Cubana de Economía Social y Solidaria y Responsabilidad Social Empresarial (ESORSE)
- Comunidad Nacional de Circuitos Económicos Solidarios (CONACES)
- Red Nacional de Investigadores y Educadores en Cooperativismo y Economía Solidaria (REDCOOP) de México
- Instituto de Cooperativismo de la Universidad de Puerto Rico
- Red de Economía Social Solidaria del municipio de Mecapaca RESS-Mecapaca
- Foro de Economías Transformadoras y Alternativas de Colombia FSMET
News from Latin Amercia and the Caribbean—
Campaign for a global curriculum of Social Solidarity economy – Latin America
In Latin and Central America there is a tradition of collective and community-based economies that come from ancient cultures, which RIPESS-LAC and its member organizations have recovered and promoted among others through campaigns, promoting public policies that contribute to development, respond to needs, build capacity and develop a new economy. It is in this sense that RIPESS LAC and one [...]
RIPESS has A New Coordinator, Raul Luna Rodriguez, From Peru
Born south of the planet, in the white city called Arequipa, Peru. He comes from humble family, as adolescent he already expressed his commitment to make a better World, where people were integrally related. He studied at the National University of San Agustin, where he graduated as an economist. Later he studied a Master of Economics at the Lima Catholic [...]
Special Meeting Of The RIPESS LAC Board Of Regional Coordination
On the 20 and 21st June the Special Meeting of the Board of Regional Coordination of the Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy of Latin America and the Caribbean -RIPESS LAC was held in the premises of the Latin American Confederation of Credit Unions, Panama city. The board members that participated representing Solidarity Economy Network of Chile; [...]
