Posted: February 4, 2014
The Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy (RIPESS) is pleased to invite your organization / network to contribute to the participatory construction of the Recommendations by Social Solidarity Economy to the Millenium Development Goals post-2015.Posted: October 7, 2013
The founding meeting of the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) took place on 30 September 2013 in Geneva. This is a new inter-agency partnership that aims to assist countries, mobilize political will and enhance momentum towards mainstreaming the issue of SSE in international and national policy frameworks.
For thirty years, the community development finance industry—banks, credit unions, loan funds, community de
How to assess what works among programmes and policiesPosted: September 23, 2013
This week, the United Nations Research Institute on Social Development (UNRISD) reported that the Social and Solidarity Economy is gaining visibility in national policy circles as well as within the United Nations system. Several new initiatives and publications bear witness to this:
This paper describes innovative financing and delivery mechanisms for getting long-term unemployed people back into work. Finance can be innovative especially when it comes from non-public sources, when it is not grant based or when it is applied to structure the delivery system in a new way. Certain types of finance might draw on all of these approaches.
