ASEC Contributes To the 8Th SSE Academy in Seoul, June, 2017
The 8th SSE Academy coorganized by International Labor Organization and the Global Social Economy Forum Secretariat will be held in Seoul on 26-30 June 2017.
This ILO Academy is the first […]
A Charter For Developing Commons Of Data And Mapping
One of the earliest such maps was TransforMap, a project with origins in Austria and Germany that is using OpenStreetMap as a platform for helping people identify and connect with […]
The First West African Meeting Of Agro-Ecological Actors, Togo, March 2017
We are women and men, farmers, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) activists, agronomists, agro-ecologists, agro-ecology trainers, Food Sovereignty activists, Civil Society actors from 7 different countries in West Africa. We come […]
5Th National Meeting On Social And Solidarity Economy In Chile, May 2017
The 5th National Meeting on Social and Solidarity Economy was held in Santiago de Chile on May 11-12 with the aim of promoting, coordinating and giving visibility to economic initiatives […]
Mesoamerican And Caribbean Forum On Solidarity-Based Finances, Costa Rica, April 2017
Between April 18th and 19th, the Mesoamerican and Caribbean Forum “Solidarity Finance: an instrument for development” was held in San José, Costa Rica, with the participation of 300 representatives from […]
Launch Of Webinar Series: Learning SSE From The Continents, Japan 2017
Starting from June 2017, Pacific Asia Resource Center (PARC) which is a member of ASEC/RIPESS-Asiabased in Japan, will host a webinar series “Learning SSE from the […]
An International Knowledge Hub On SSE And The SDG’s Under Preparation, Un Task Force SSE
On April 25th, the United Nations Inter-Agency Taskforce on Social and Solidarity Economy adopted a proposal to create a SSE Knowledge Hub for the SDGs. This project is the […]
RIPESS, An Associate Partner For The 4Th World Forum of Local Economic Development (LED), Cape Verde, October 2017
The 4th World Forum of Local Economic Develaopment (LED) will be held at Praia, Cabo Verde, from October 17 to 20, 2017. After previous meetings in Seville, Spain (2011), […]
Declaration On Gender Equity In SSE
Following a working group on women and the SSE at the FIESS in 2011, a two-year project on women entrepreneurs in the SSE that took place from 2014 to 2016 […]
New Report Documents Emerging Solidarity Economy Movement In Massachusetts
A solidarity economy movement is emerging from lower-income communities of color in Massachusetts. This movement aspires to transform capitalism—as we know it—into a world rooted in values of democracy, justice, […]
Annual Colloquium of the SSE Interuniversity Network (RIUESS) in Marrakech. 22-24 May 2017
The Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech and the University of Haute-Alsace are organizing the annual Colloquium of the Inter University Network of Social and Solidarity Economics (RIUESS) in Marrakech from the 22nd […]
The C.I.T.I.E.S Project in preparation
The World Forum on Social and Solidarity Economy, GSEF2016, took place in Montreal last September (2016) under the following slogan “Local Governments and actors of the Social Economy. Allied for the […]
The link between the SSE and the Sustainable Development Goals – Latin America
As part of the 2030 Agenda implementation, and taking into account that the basis for achieving all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires to switch the current economic model, RIPESS-LAC highlights the direct link […]
An example of a national multi stakeholders approach for implementing the SDGS, including SSE – Case of Malaysia
Dr Denison Jayasooria, from Malaysia, member of ASEC / RIPESS Asia is the co-chair of the Malaysia CSO-SDG Alliance, being an informal grouping of CSOs in development, human rights, environment and think […]
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 […]
The Ambitious Journey of ASEC to Spread SSE in Asia
Meeting with AFDB to integrate the SSE in the Youth Employment Strategy in Africa
By invitation of the resident representative of the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Cameroon, RESSCAM participated in the Central Africa Conference on Youth Employment in Africa. This conference was held on Tuesday, February […]
The Women’s March on Washington and the Coming of Age of Feminism
By Julie Matthaei, Wellesley College. First published on CommonDreams.org and URPE.org. Revised for RIPESS.
For those who believe in equality and solidarity, and faced the outrage of Trump’s presidency, it was […]
