Social and Solidarity Economy

Social and Solidarity Economy

Recent global economic and political instability has served to underline the shortcomings of our current development system and further confirm the necessity for an alternate or complementary development paradigm. The social and solidarity economy (SSE) is a viable solution to re-balancing economic, social and environmental objectives.

The 110th Session of the International Labour Conference in 2022 will hold a general discussion on Decent Work and the Social and Solidarity Economy. The report is available here.

Latest News

  1. Exchanges with the international cooperative movement on the ILO’s Promotion of Cooperatives Recommendation and the ILC discussion on decent work and the social and solidarity economy

    17 May 2022

  2. The UN Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) held its 39th regular meeting

    17 May 2022

  3. ILO and UNTFSSE participate at Catalysing Change Week 2022

    17 May 2022

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Projects

  1. Social and Solidarity Economy in Asia

Publications

  1. Cooperatives and the World of Work No. 14 - Partnerships between trade unions and the social and solidarity economy to support informal economy workers

    13 May 2022

  2. Social Protection & Cooperatives Spotlight - Mobilizing social and solidarity economy units towards universal social protection

    29 April 2022

  3. South Africa’s social and solidarity economy: Alignment of the policy with national, regional and international frameworks

    31 March 2022

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