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The SSE in the New Urban Agenda! HABITAT III Quito, 17 - 20 October, 2016
 The third United Nations Conference on housing and sustainable urban development (HABITAT III) took place in Quito, Ecuador, between the 17th and 20th of October, 2016, and welcomed more than 30 000 participants. Several members of RIPESS LAC were present, and carried our collective message forward in various side events.... Read more
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FMDV and RIPESS, a new partnership signed at Habitat III in Quito
 On October 17, during the Habitat III meeting, the Global fund for the Development of Cities – FMDV and RIPESS signed a partnership agreement.
The Global fund for cities development (FMDV) was created in October 2010 at the initiative of Metropolis, United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and 34 founding members (cities and city networks)... Read more
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RIPESS Board of Directors’ meeting, Montreal, 10-11 September, 2016
 Each year, the RIPESS Board of Directors has one in-person meeting. The other meetings are held on Internet.
After hearing reports from the continental networks and from the different working groups (education, visibility and recognition, networking & communications & mapping, and women and SSE), the Board adopted... Read more
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 RIPESS searches for a manager in communication and translations, in Barcelona
The RIPESS Board of Directors members met on last September in Montreal, and validated the need to recruit a Manager in Communication and Translation trilingual (english, spanish and french) to both enhance the visibility of RIPESS as regards international (internal and external) communication and support the work of the Executive Secretary, based in Barcelona... Read more
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RIPESS has a new Coordinator, Raúl Luna Rodríguez, from Peru 
The World Forum on Social and Solidarity Economy took place at Montreal’s Conference Centre from 7 to 9 September. This third edition, jointly organized by the city of Montreal and the Chantier de l´économie sociale, was held under the slogan "Local Governments and actors of the Social Economy. Allied for the development of smart and sustainable cities"... 
On September 20, 2016, in New York, the International Leading Group on Social and Solidarity Economy (ILGSSE) held a high-level event organized by France and coordinated by the association The Mont-Blanc Meetings (MBM) – International Forum of the Social and Solidarity Economy Entrepreneurs as permanent secretariat... 
The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) meeting of July 25 granted to RIPESS the status of special accreditation. This status grants privileges to participate in international meetings of UN organisations as a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) .... 
Over 75 participant (s) met at the World Social Economy Forum (GSEF 2016) in September 7th, 2016 to discuss the theme of man-woman equality (MWE) as essential for the development of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE).
The African Development Bank (AfDB) will host the 2016 Development Evaluation Week from November 7-10, 2016 at its Headquarters in Abidjan about : “Accelerate the transformation of Africa – Best practices and strategies for development practitioners”. The aim of the 
sdg-sse.org
If additional local currencies were already circulating in the 1930s in Europe and then in the years 1980-1990 in the Americas, it is undeniable that they are experiencing a renewed interest around the world, both as regards the effervescence of popular support and potentially for technological and economic development.
A cooperative Call Center from Refugees to Refugees (R2R)
The 22nd Session of the Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP22) will be held in Marrakech from 7 to 18 November 2016.
Under the theme “The empowerment of cooperatives”, the International Summit of Cooperatives, global reference event for business development in the cooperative and mutualist environment, was held from 11 to 13 October 2016, in Quebec City. 
World Social Forum 2016: towards a post-capitalist transition
