Everything is ready for the events before and during #COP16, including, the #Ibero-AmericanDiverseEconomiesMeeting, #ECOOVIDA and other side events where RIPESS delegations from 4 continents will participate in #Bogotá and #Cali in the green and blue zone. Here is the agenda of all the places where you can meet us.

Our mission: to show how #ESS entities can facilitate biodiversity protection and are building across sectors concrete responses to environmental and financial crises around the world and how #RIPESS and specifically RIPESSLAC can work hand in hand with governments to streamline biodiversity protection efforts, facilitating legislation on Solidarity, Popular and Community Economies to advance the #ODS on the ground.

See you now, in the beautiful and rich biodiversity of #Colombia!

Ibero-American Meeting of Diverse Economies, National University (Bogotá) – Economic Sciences Auditorium.

16 Oct, 11h30-13h00
Panel 2/Diverse Economies and Other Economies, Sandra Moreno Cadena (RIPESS Intercontinental, Spain)
17 Oct, 11h30-13h00
Keynote 2, Hans Cediel (RIPESS LAC, Colombia)

18 Oct, 10h30-12h00
Panel 2/Social and Solidarity Economy in Latin America, Valeska Sarmiento (RIPESS LAC, Guatemala), Gustavo Wandsidler (RIPESS LAC, Argentina), Juana Anchiraico (RIPESS LAC, Peru), Roberto Enrique Ochoa (RIPESS LAC, Ecuador), Raúl Luna (RIPESS LAC, Peru)

Other events in Bogotá prior to COP16:

19 Oct, 8h30-13h00RIPESS LAC Regional Board of Directors. Visit and dialogue of knowledge, solidarity markets and short marketing circuits, Plaza de Mercado in San Carlos, Calle 51 Sur, No. 19B-26 (Bogota).

20 Oct, 8h30-13h00 – RIPESS LAC Regional Board of Directors. Visit to Popular Economy organisations (Bogota)
21 Oct – 08h00. RIPESS LAC Regional Board of Directors. Meeting with the Ministry of Culture and representatives of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies. Theme: Presentation of UN and ILO resolutions.
14h00 – RIPESS LAC meeting ‘How is the Popular, Social and Solidarity Economy doing in Colombia and LATAM?’, 14h, Yellow Room of the Congress of the Republic, Cll 10. No. 7-50. (Bogota)

22 Oct, 08h00-12h00 – ECOOVIDA. Grand opening plenary. Coliseum of the National School of Sport (Cali).
22 Oct, 14h00-18h00 – Regional Steering Committee of RIPESS LAC. Meeting with experiences of solidarity economic circuits – CONFIAR and meetings with international networks. Green Zone – COP16 (Cali)
24 Oct, 10h00-14h00 – RIPESS LAC Regional Steering Committee. Advocacy and articulation meetings with international networks. Green Zone – COP16 (Cali)

ECOOVIDA – FORUM INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS FOR THE PROMOTION OF ECONOMIES FOR LIFE, Universidad Javeriana. Central Auditorium, Cali

23 Oct, 09h Plenary. Sandra Moreno Cadena, Spain (Executive Secretary RIPESS Intercontinental). Theme: ‘Political advocacy in the spaces of international instruments for the promotion of the SSE and mechanisms for the reformulation of the financial architecture for the ecosystem of the Social and Solidarity Economy’.


23 Oct, 10h45-12h30 – Plenary. Federico Parra, Colombia (SSE Officer at WIEGO). Theme: ‘ILO Recommendation 204 and discussion on formalisation at the next International Labour Conference’.


23 Oct, 15h10-15h52 – Space for Collective Leaderships. Hans Cediel, Colombia (Co-Coordinator RIPESS LAC). Theme: ‘The institutionalisation of the social, popular and community-based solidarity economy in Colombia’.


23 Oct, 16h40-17h30 – Space for Collective Leadership. Federico Parra, Colombia (SSE Officer at WIEGO). Theme: ‘ESA as a social, environmentally sustainable response’.

23 Oct, 17h30-17h45 Reading of conclusions: Espacio Lilderazgos Colectivos. Hans Cediel, Colombia (Co-Coordinator RIPESS LAC)


23 Oct, 17h45-18h10 Closing of the Bureau and Institutional Commitment – International Representatives. Sandra Moreno Cadena, Spain (Executive Secretary RIPESS Intercontinental) with Roberto di Meglio.

ECOOVIDA – Forum on Agrarian Reform, Reindustrialisation and Productive Reconversion, Universidad Santiago de Cali

23 Oct, 10h45-12h30, University Santiago de Cali – Panel 2. Judith Hitchman, Ireland (Co-Coordinator RIPESS Intercontinental). ‘Instruments for the promotion of SSE in relation to food and agriculture – FAO and CFS (Committee on World Food Security).”

ECOOVIDA –Economy of Care Forum, Coomeva, Oasis Auditorium

Auditorium Oasis Centro Comercial Unicentro – Andrea Rodríguez, Spain (RIPESS Europe). Theme: ‘The EU and the SSE project, Youth and the Care Economy’.

ECOOVIDA – Forum on Solidarity, Popular and Community Education in Economies for Life. Cooperative University, Central Auditorium (Cali)

23 Oct, 11h00 -13h00 Sub-theme 1: Economies for life in popular and community education (national and international experiences), Table 2. Moderator: Gustavo Wansidler, Argentina (CDR RIPESS LAC).
23 Oct, 14h-16h. Sub-theme 2: Economies for life in formal and non-formal education systems around the world. Gustavo Wansidler, Argentina (CDR RIPESS LAC). Theme: ‘Formal education systems and popular education in the institutionalisation of the EPSyS in the framework of the UN resolution on SSE and social protection’..

ECOOVIDA –Bioeconomy, Agroecology and Sustainable Economy Forum, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Quincha Auditorium (Cali)

23 Oct, 14h00 -15h30. Auditorio Xenia. Panel 3.Resignifying the Bioeconomy. Raúl Luna Rodríguez, Peru (CDR RIPESSS LAC)
23 Oct, 14h00 -15h30. Auditorio Xenia. Joëlle Bernard. Canada (RIPESS North America Coordinator). Theme: ‘The Experience of the Chantier de l’Economie Sociale in the generation of the Circular Economy and the Bioeconomy’.

ECOOVIDA – Foro Mujeres y Diversidades en las Economías para la Vida, Universidad del Valle, Auditorio Facultad de Ingeniería, Calle 13 No. 100-00 (Cali)

23 Oct, 10h30 -13h00 Sub-theme 1. Associativity with a gender perspective in the field. Opening: Valeska Sarmiento, Guatemala, (CDR RIPESS LAC).
23 Oct, 10h30 -13h00. Sub-theme 2. Ancestral knowledge, gathered and disseminated by women and diversities, contributing to associativity and economy, Table 2: Ana María Condori, Bolivia (CDR RIPESS LAC).
23 Oct, 10h30 -13h00. Sub-theme 3. Gender equity in the international and national solidarity sector. Panel 3: Felicitas Juana Anchiraico Uscuvilca, Peru (CDR RIPESS LAC).

ECOOVIDA – Decent Work and Social Security Forum. National School of Sport. Calle 9 No. 34-01 (Cali)

23 Oct, 14h40 -16h40 International Public Experiences of Access to Decent Work. Esperidón Villa Paredes, Dominican Republic (WSM, INSPIR). Keynote speech: ‘Basic Study on the State of the Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) in the Dominican Republic: The SSE as a strategy to overcome inequalities and economic and social exclusions’.

23 Oct, 14h40 -16h40 International Public Experiences of Access to Decent Work. Joel Mutzenberg, Switzerland (ASA-Network for Social Food Security). Keynote presentation: ‘Project for a Social Security for Food-SSA: Creating Social Security for Food and the Right to Food – Pilot Study in Geneva, Switzerland’.

ECOOVIDA – Forum on Solidarity Communication and the Right to Information. Autonomous University of the West. Lili Hall (Cali)

23 Oct, 11h30-13h00 Thematic Forum 2: Solidarity associativity in popular communication for the defence of life. Andrea Echeverría, Spain (Head of Communication, RIPESS Intercontinental). Theme: ‘Transformative Communication: an indispensable tool for the Social Solidarity Economy; Examples of experiences from ComunESS and RIPESS Intercontinental’.