Legal status and institutional support for SSE

Themes : Public policies and the solidarity economy

Certain governments have chosen to render their recognition and support for the social and solidarity economy definitive. Independently of the orientations of a party or the economic context, these measures, whether laws, new institutions or certification processes are enshrined in laws that ensure their sustainability. The immutability of these structures often facilitates the collaboration between government actors and enables constructive and inter-sectoral partnership processes and with actors of the social and solidarity economy.

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9 laws | 3 publications | One video | 15 case studies | 32 Analyses/working papers/articles | One public contribution | 2 articles

9 laws

• 74/119 Cooperatives in social development

  Resolution adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 18 December 2019

  United Nations, December 2019

• National Social Economy Draft Green Paper

  South Africa Economic Development Department - 25 February 2019

  February 2019

• Krajowy Program Rozwoju Ekonomii Społecznej do 2023 roku. Ekonomia Solidarności Społecznej (National Program Social Economy Development until 2023. Social Solidarity Economy)

  Republic of Poland

  2019

• Social and Solidarity-based Enterprises ACT Decree 240 - 25 of October 2018.

  State Gazette Republic of Bulgaria

  October 2018

• SEC. 866. Opportunities for employee-owned business concerns through Small Business Administration loan programs.

  In John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, United States

  August 2018

• UN Resolution A/RES/72/143 : Cooperatives in social development

  Adopted on 19 December 2017

  United Nations, December 2017

• List by ILO of national laws on cooperatives (by country)

  2015

  BIT/ILO

• SOCIAL ENTERPRISE PROMOTION ACT (Enforcement Date 01. Feb, 2012.] [Act No.11275, 01. Feb, 2012., Partial Amendment

  Republic of South Korea

  February 2012

• ILO Recommendation 193 concerning Promotion of Cooperatives Adoption: Geneva, 90th ILC session (20 Jun 2002)

  R193 - Promotion of Cooperatives Recommendation, 2002 (No. 193)

  June 2002

  BIT/ILO

3 publications

• Regional Policy Frameworks of Social Solidarity Economy in South America

  Occasional Paper 6. Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy

  Marcelo Saguier, Zoe Brent, June 2014

  UNRISD

• Environmental Policy is Social Policy – Social Policy is Environmental Policy. Towards Sustainability Policy?

  Edited by Isidor Wallimann, Springer Publishing, France., 2013

• Policy Brief on Social Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurial Activities in Europe.

  ©OECD/European Union publication

  Antonella Noya, Emma Clarence, 2013

One video

• Solikon 2015: Solidarische Ökonomie-Initiativen und -Netze in Südeuropa

  September 2015

15 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

• Public policies for the Social and Solidarity Economy: Towards a favourable environment. The case of the Philippines.

  Benjamin R. Quiñones, Jr., 2015

  BIT/ILO

• Public policy in the social and solidarity economy: Towards a favourable environment. The case of Europe.

  Giulia Galera, 2015

  BIT/ILO

• A framework law for the Québec social economy

  Brief Reliess n°10

  October 2013

  RELIESS

• Social Economy and Public Policy Development: A South Korean Case

  Eun Ae Lee, Young-Sik Kim, September 2013

• Canada Case Study. Co-Construction of Public Policy for the Social Economy

  International Forum on Social and Solidarity Economy, FIESS 2011

  Paul Chamberlain, Mike Toye, Geneviève Huot, Émilien Gruet, October 2011

  Chantier de l’économie sociale

• Overview of the Legal Framework for Inclusion of Informal Recyclers in Solid Waste Management in Brazil

  WIEGO Policiy Brief n°6

  Sonia María Dias, May 2011

• Sustainable Development Act

  Brief Public Policy Profile CCRPèS - CSERP

  Sarah Amyot, May 2010

  RELIESS

• Solidarity Co-operatives Enabling Legislation

  Brief Public Policy Profile CCRPèS - CSERP

  Sarah Amyot, May 2010

  RELIESS

• Green Energy and Green Economy Act

  Brief Public Policy Profile CCRPèS - CSERP

  Sarah Amyot, May 2010

  RELIESS

• Social Enterprise Promotion Act: The Case of South Korea

  Asian Dialogue on Oeconomy.

  Lee Prof Kwang Taek, 2010

32 Analyses/working papers/articles

• International Journal of Cooperative Law

  Issue 3 - 2020

  Editors Iphigenia Douvitsa, Cynthia Giagnocavo, Hagen Henrÿ, David Hiez, Ian Snaith, 2020

• Toward a global legal culture of the SSE entreprise? An international comparison of SSE legislation

  RECMA 2019/3 (No 353), p. 74-88.

  Gilles Caire, Willy TADJUDJE, July 2019

• Solidarity Economy Lawyering

  Renee Hatcher, Solidarity Economy Lawyering, Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice Vol. 8 (2019).

  Renee Hatcher, June 2019

• International Journal of Cooperative Law

  Issue 2- 2019

  Editors Iphigenia Douvitsa, Cynthia Giagnocavo, Hagen Henrÿ, David Hiez, Ian Snaith, 2019

• Legislation and Public Policies in support of Social Solidarity Economy (SSE). First steps & Elements of a practical Guide.

  Yvon Poirier, January 2018

  RIPESS Intercontinental

• International Journal of Cooperative Law

  Issue I - 2018

  Editors Iphigenia Douvitsa, Cynthia Giagnocavo, Hagen Henrÿ, David Hiez, Ian Snaith, 2018

• A European statute for Social and Solidarity-based Enterprise

  Directorate General for Internal Policies Department C: Citizens’ rights and Constitutional Affaires Legal Affairs, European Parliament

  Antonio Fici, February 2017

• 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

• Legal and political recognition of social solidarity economy (SEE). An overview on SSE public policies and guidelines.

  Yvon Poirier, January 2016

  RIPESS Intercontinental

• Strategija razvoja društvenog poduzetništva u Republici Hrvatskoj za razdoblje od 2015. do 2020. godine

  Croatia

  2015

• The Portuguese Law on Social Economy

  Working paper. CIRIEC N° 2014/12

  Deolinda Aparício Meira, December 2014

• The Social and Solidarity Economy in Ecuador: opportunities and challenges

  MINCA Ecuador

  Sara Calvo, Andres Morales Pachon, June 2014

• Institutionalization of a technological incubator for popular cooperatives in a public university in Brazil as part of public policy

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

  Ana Lucia Cortegoso, Isabella Ap. Lussi, October 2013

• Legal Frameworks on Social and Solidarity Economy: What is the Role of Civil Society Organizations in Policy Making?

  Think pieces for the UNRISD conference “Potential and Limits of Social and Solidarity Economy”. 6-8 May 2013

  Rafael Peels, May 2013

  UNRISD

• Pan-European cooperative law: Where do we stand?

  Euricse WP 47|13

  Antonio Fici, 2013

• Worldwide regulation of co-operative societies – an Overview

  Euricse WP 53|13

  Hans-H. Münkner, 2013

• Social entrepreneurship in Croatia: a framework for development

  Euricse WP 61|13

  Davorka Vidović, 2013

• Social Enterprises in the Netherlands.

  Social economy - laying the groundwork for innovative solutions to today’s challenges. (Paris, 10-11 December 2012)

  Faryda Hussein, December 2012

• FIESS - Innovation and collective entrepreneurship

  Different perspectives on innovation and social innovation and the dynamic interaction through collective entrepreneurship in the the social and solidarity economy.

  June 2012

  RELIESS

• Grassroots mobilization, co-production of public policy and the promotion of participatory democracy by the Brazilian Solidarity Economy movement

  Thesis submitted for a Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Sociology at Brown University

  Ana Margarida Esteves, May 2011

• Greek Social Economy at the crossroads Law 4019/2011 and the institutionalization challenge

  Working paper CIRIEC N° 2011/10

  Ioannis NASIOULAS, 2011

• Study on the implementation of the Regulation 1435/2003 on the Statute for European Cooperative Society (SCE)

  Final Study Executive Summary and Part I: Synthesis and comparative report

  October 2010

• The Social Contract for Housing, Ecuador

  Silvana Ruiz Pozo, 2009

  HIC

• Social economy in the co-construction of public policy

  This paper is a by-product of broader research on the État stratège and the co-construction of public policy (see Vaillancourt, 2008 and 2007b)

  Yves Vaillancourt, 2008

• Elaboration of the concept of ecological debt - Part 5

  Part 5 of a five-part report on ecological debt: in 2003, several departments of Ghent University (Belgium) - in cooperation with the Belgian NGO VODO - have been working on a research project on ecological debt. The research was ordered by the Belgian development cooperation and aimed at clarifying the concept of ecological debt and studying its applicability to Belgian and international policy. The report has about 230 pages and is divided into five sections. It can be downloaded from the website of the Centre for Sustainable Development (Ghent University), where the executive summary of the report (in English and in Dutch) is also available, as well as a Powerpoint presentation with an overview of the main results: http://cdonet.rug.ac.be/onderzoek/ecological_debt

  Paredis Erik, September 2004

• Elaboration of the concept of ecological debt - Part 2

  Part 2 of a five-part report on ecological debt: in 2003, several departments of Ghent University (Belgium) - in cooperation with the Belgian NGO VODO - have been working on a research project on ecological debt. The research was ordered by the Belgian development cooperation and aimed at clarifying the concept of ecological debt and studying its applicability to Belgian and international policy. The report has about 230 pages and is divided into five sections. It can be downloaded from the website of the Centre for Sustainable Development (Ghent University), where the executive summary of the report (in English and in Dutch) is also available, as well as a Powerpoint presentation with an overview of the main results: http://cdonet.rug.ac.be/onderzoek/ecological_debt

  Paredis Erik, September 2004

• Elaboration of the concept of ecological debt - Part 1

  Part 1 of a five-part report on ecological debt: in 2003, several departments of Ghent University (Belgium) - in cooperation with the Belgian NGO VODO - have been working on a research project on ecological debt. The research was ordered by the Belgian development cooperation and aimed at clarifying the concept of ecological debt and studying its applicability to Belgian and international policy. The report is about 230 pages long and is divided into five sections. t can be downloaded from the website of the Centre for Sustainable Development (Ghent University), where the executive summary of the report (in English and in Dutch) is also available, as well as a Powerpoint presentation with an overview of the main results: http://cdonet.rug.ac.be/onderzoek/ecological_debt

  Paredis Erik, September 2004

• Elaboration of the concept of ecological debt - Executive Summary

  An executive summary, in English and Dutch, of a five-part report on ecological debt. It can also be downloaded from the website of the Centre for Sustainable Development (Ghent University), where the full report is available, as well as a Powerpoint presentation with an overview of the main results: http://cdonet.rug.ac.be/onderzoek/ecological_debt

  Paredis Erik, September 2004

• A New European Socioeconomic Perspective

  Review of Social Economy, VOL. LXI, NO. 3, September 2003

  Jean-Louis Laville, September 2003

  EMES

• Development and the State: A Changing Vision

  Development is a topic that can’t be dealt with without referring to the role of state intervention. The debate over state intervention, its goals and the extent of its application, has been a recurring one for more than three centuries. As far back as the 18th century, there have been several conflicting visions: was it necessary to let an unregulated market follow its natural course (resulting in an optimal allocation of resources), as some economists, like J-B. Say or A. Smith, recommended? Or rather, was it necessary that the state intervene, in particular so as to protect infant industries? (cf. F. List).

  Pierre Judet, January 2001

• Study on the implementation of the Regulation 1435/2003 on the Statute for European Cooperative Society (SCE)

  Final Study Part II. National Reports 5 October 2010

One public contribution

• Launch text on Fiscal policy, Redistribution and Social Security

  Ceci Vieira Juruá, January 2001

2 articles

• Japanese Workers Cooperatives Act is adopted

  Article of CICOPA, 8 December 2020

  December 2020

• Historic Federal Law Gives Employee-Owned Businesses Access to SBA Loans

  Article of Non Profit Quarterly, august 14 2018

  Steve Dubb, August 2018