OECD/LEGAL/0472 : OECD, Recommendation of the Council on the Social and Solidarity Economy and Social Innovation
Summary :
The Recommendation provides a ground-breaking policy framework, which embeds a holistic approach to finding concrete solutions to barriers and challenges that may hold back social economy organisations.
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It recognises the diversity of practice and the need for policy tools applicable to a range of country contexts and varying degrees of development of the social economy. It is based on nine building blocks which provide the conditions for the social economy to thrive at international, national and local level. The nine building blocks include: 1) social economy culture; 2) institutional frameworks; 3) legal and regulatory frameworks; 4) access to finance; 5) access to markets; 6) skills and business development support; 7) managing, measuring and reporting impact; 8) data; and 9) social innovation.