Public policies that promote adequate financing for SSE

A key challenge for companies in the social and solidarity economy is to obtain adequate financing on acceptable terms to enable their development. Governments can facilitate access to capital by recognizing the uniqueness of these enterprises thus making it possible to earmark funds for them, by adopting fiscal measures to encourage private actors to invest in them, by contributing to investment funds targeted to them or by creating financial tools specifically for these types of enterprises or the organizations that support them.

2 publications

• Alternative Budgets. Budgeting as if People Mattered.

  John Loxley, Fernwood Publishing, Canada., 2003

• Freedom and Security An Introduction to the Basic Income Debate

  Tony Fitzpatrick, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, USA, September 1999

A thesis

• Reducing Financing Costs for Local Communities’ Welfare. An analysis of the Swedish local government funding agency Kommuninvest from the perspective of the social and public economy.

  Master in social economics cooperatives and non-profit organiisationsIONS, Universitat Valencia

  Esther M. Schmitt, September 2015

2 Videos

• La ESS en el contexto Europeo : Elementos Clave para una Agenda Transformadora

  December 2024

  REAS

• The Power of Public Banking: You Can « Public Bank » On That

  October 2023

One proposal

• Proposals paper for the XXIst century: Fiscal Policy: Taxes, Distribution of National Income, and Social Security

  This proposals paper is a synthesis of the work by the « Fiscal Policy: Taxes, Distribution of National Income, and Social Security » Workshop.

  Ceci Vieira Juruá, November 2001

10 case studies

• Public Policy and Devolved Governance: Facilitating the Social and Solidarity Economy in the Liverpool City Region

  From : Guidelines for Local Governments on Policies for Social and Solidarity Economy, UNRISD

  Helen Heap, Alan Southern, Matt Thompson, 2020

  UNRISD

• Creating an Enabling Environment for the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) through Public Policies in Durban, South Africa

  From : Guidelines for Local Governments on Policies for Social and Solidarity Economy, UNRISD

  Susan Steinman, 2020

  UNRISD

• Public Policies Enabling the Social and Solidarity Economy in the City of Montreal

  From : Guidelines for Local Governments on Policies for Social and Solidarity Economy, UNRISD

  Marguerite Mendell, Nancy Néamtan, Yi Hyuna, 2020

  UNRISD

• Policy Systems and Measures for the Social Economy in Seoul

  From : Guidelines for Local Governments on Policies for Social and Solidarity Economy, UNRISD

  Soon-Yoon Kil, Lee Sang Youn, 2020

  UNRISD

• Public Policies Fostering the Social and Solidarity Economy in Barcelona (2016-2019)

  From : Guidelines for Local Governments on Policies for Social and Solidarity Economy, UNRISD

  Rafael Chaves Ávila, Jordi Via Llops, Jordi Garcia Jané, 2020

  UNRISD

• The Lisbon Participatory Budget: results and perspectives on an experience in slow but continuous transformation

  Field Actions Science Report Special issue 11/2014. Stories of innovative Democracy at local level

  Giovanni Allegretti, 2014

• The Co-construction of Solidarity Finance in Quebec: a Systemic Approach

  Brief Reliess n°6

  October 2012

  RELIESS

• Community Economic Development Investment Funds (CEDIF)

  Brief Public Policy Profile CCRPèS - CSERP

  Sarah Amyot, May 2010

  RELIESS

• Edmonton Social Enterprise Fund

  Brief Public Policy Profile CCRPèS - CSERP

  Sarah Amyot, May 2010

  RELIESS

• Social Venture Fund

  Brief Public Policy Profile CCRPèS - CSERP

  Sarah Amyot, May 2010

  RELIESS

16 Analyses/working papers/articles

• WORKING PAPER (October 2023) - Elements for a Social and Solidarity Economy Financing (ESSF) Ecosystem

  Yvon Poirier, Hamish Jenkins, October 2023

  RIPESS Intercontinental

• Living Income Guidance for Governments. Guidance for public policy makers

  Fair Trade Advocacy Office team and all., August 2022

• Financial Mechanisms for Innovative Social and Solidarity Economy Ecosystems

  ILO

  Samuel Barco Serrano, Riccardo Bodini, Michael Roy, Gianluca Salvatori, January 2020

  BIT/ILO

• Chapter 4. Promoting Social and Solidarity Economy through Public Policy

  October 2016

  UNRISD

• Social Economy. STUDY.

  Directorate General for Internal Policies. Policy Department A: Economic and Scientific Policy of the European Parliament, May 2016

• Levers and obstacles to project funding in the third sector Portugal – UK – France - Algeria

  Final synthesis of the Diagnostic Assessments in the framework of the European Project SPOTS (Sustainable Projects for Organisations of the Third Sector)

  IFAID Aquitaine, January 2016

  IFAID Aquitaine

• Primer on Trade Agreements for Social Purchasing

  a CCEDNet Report

  Darcy Penner, David LePage, April 2015

• Social Solidarity Economy (SSE) and Financing for Development (FfD) – A concept note about FfD, Yvon Poirier, RIPESS Board of Directors

  Yvon Poirier, March 2015

• The 11th Annual United Nations and International Organizations Civil Society Focal Points Meeting, jointly organized by the United Nations Non- Governmental Liaison Service (UN-NGLS) and the World Bank, Inter- American Development Bank (IDB), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), was held on 17-18 November in Washington DC at World Bank Headquarters.

  2014

• Participatory Budgeting, Rural Public Services and Pilot Local Democracy Reform

  Field Actions Science Report Special issue 11/2014. Stories of innovative Democracy at local level

  Ming Zhuang, 2014

• Aid and support for the social economy in Poland. The case of social cooperatives

  4th CIRIEC International Research Conference on Social Economy University of Antwerp, 24-26 October 2013

  Karolina ajdzińska, October 2013

• Solidarity Finance and Public Policy: The Brazilian experience of community development banks

  NGLS Working Paper 2013 (Draft)

  Augusto Câmara Neiva, Juliana de Oliveira Barros Braz, Diogo Jamra Tsukumo, Joao Joaquim de Melo Neto Segundo, May 2013

• The Effects of Participatory Budgeting on Municipal Expenditures and Infant Mortality in Brazil

  World Development (2013), 2013 Elsevier Ltd., all rights reserved.

  Sonia Gonçalves, 2013

• Financing the Social Economy in Québec. A Work in Progress.

  Marguerite Mendell, 2009

• The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend: An Experiment in Wealth Distribution

  Scott Goldsmith, 2002

• Finance for local development: New solutions for public-private action

  This handbook, one of the outcomes of a project “Getting the Framework Right: Public Support Strategies and Measures for Local and Micro-finance” shows good practice internationally in public support for local and micro-finance; and how to develop and implement policy instruments to give effective support to local and micro-finance in one’s own territory.

  2001

  INAISE, NEF

One public contribution

• Public-Civil Society Organization Partnership in Developing Capital Markets for SMEs and Social Enterprises in Asia & the Pacific

  Speech delivered at the Asia Pacific Outreach Meeting on Sustainable Development Financing. Jakarta, Indonesia. June 10-11, 2014

  Benjamin R. Quiñones, Jr., June 2014

  ASEC

3 articles

• Maricá (Brazil): Social Currency Mumbuca

  Article of RIPESS Europe newsletter, November 2022

  Basilia Orozco, Diario El Analista, Argentine, November 2022

  RIPESS Europe

• SSE and public policies: Lets talk about Participatory Budgeting in Municipalities (Greece)

  Article from the RIPESS Europe newsletter - April 2021

  Georgia Bekridaki, April 2021

  RIPESS Europe, Dock Social Solidarity Zone

• Meet the Citizens Who Helped Decide Their City’s Budget—and Got Better Buses, Benches, and Crosswalks

  Article of Yes!Magazine May 20, 2016

  Ken Otterbourg, May 2016

  Yes! Magazine