The UN Task Force on Social and Solidarity Economy (UNTFSSE) held its 34th regular meeting

The virtual meeting of UNTFSSE was held on March 3rd and brought together around 40 participants from member and observer institutions.

News | 29 March 2021
The UNTFSSE meeting was virtually held on 03 March, 2021 and brought together almost 40 participants including representatives from six member (ILO, UNRISD, UNDESA, UNCTAD, UNDP-ART, OECD), eleven observer organizations (CIRIEC, EURICSE, Catalyst2030, GSEF, Euclid Network, Social Economy Europe, SSE International Forum, RIPESS, CSEND, EESC and ICA) and two resource persons.

The meeting started with the discussion around several priority objectives in the work plan of the UNTFSSE, including the process leading to a UN resolution on SSE in 2021 and two joint UNTFSSE project proposals. Updates on the Knowledge Hub’s ongoing activities were shared. In particular, it was announced that the Ministry of Labour, Employment and the Social and Solidarity Economy of the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg funded the project “The Knowledge Hub package proposal: The SSE Encyclopedia and the UNTFSSE position paper”, which will be implemented by UNRISD and the ILO on behalf of the UNTFSSE.

Two ideas proposed by CSEND and RIPESS were discussed, as part of new possible future workstreams of the UNTFSSE. As part of updates from members, Social Economy Europe (SEE) shared their recent work and SEE’s recent policy paper Co-designing the Action Plan for the Social Economy: for an economy that works for people and the planet. This policy paper aims at feeding the debate on co-building the European Action Plan for the Social Economy, that will be presented by the European Commission ion the fourth trimester of 2021.

The meeting continued with the presentation of the current communication strategy of the task force, including the new tools of sharing relevant information of members, and especially on events, projects and publications.

Common synergies for future events were also discussed, in particular within the framework of the Fifth World LED Forum and the joint SEE-UNTFSSE event organized in the framework of EUSES.