Policies that empower a target population

Themes : Public policies and the solidarity economy

Social and solidarity economy enterprises play an active part in ensuring better social and economic participation of certain groups or individuals who face various barriers that prevent them from accessing the labour market and the goods and services produced by the traditional economy. Rather than investing exclusively in programs on income, the social and solidarity economy works to find ways to empower the target population with which it works. This approach interests governments investing in programs to support socio-economic groups (youth, persons with disabilities, recent immigrants to the country, indigenous communities). Thus, in some countries, the social economy is an integral part of strategies to develop the labour market.

3 publications

4 case studies

12 Analyses/working papers/articles

One public contribution

An article