Description
The Economia Solidaria Española (ESS - Spanish Solidarity Network) is a high-growth sector that provides practical and innovative solutions to problems arising from the loss of economic and labor rights. The aim of this project is to strengthen the Red de Economia Solidaria Española ESS (especially in Aragon, Cataluña, Madrid, Navarra and Euskadi) promoting the protection of socioeconomic rights through the construction of economic models that are socially and environmentally fairer. Activities have been suggested based on 3 areas: (1) research on state experience related to ESS ; (2) 4 meetings in Aragon, Cataluña, Navarra and Madrid to support knowledge, exchange and capabilities of the sector; (3) a publication and final evaluation that will include the identified experiences during the research process with a rights approach. We distinguish three categories of targets: the people and organizations involved in at least 10 experiences that will form part of the final publication; the territorial networks participants; and REAS Red de Redes as state network.
Summary of project results
The main product of this project has been an interactive online publication that links human, economic, social and cultural rights with different experiences of social and solidarity economy the Spanish territory: economiayderechos.observatoridesc.org. The web allows you to browse traveling two routes. On the one hand, one to find the area of Social and Solidarity Economy (ESS) through thirty articles that address the relationship of the economic system to human rights and their presence in various sectors such as housing, food, energy, culture and finance, as well as its development in the Spanish and international territory and the challenges it faces. On the other hand, you can browse a catalog of 115 experiences, co-operatives, associations and informal initiatives that can be filtered by law, sector or territory, by bringing back existing relationships but little known. Therefore, the human rights approach and the ESS are merely two sides of the same coin. A model of economy can not be defined as social and solidarity without taking into account human rights, while human rights can not imagine an economy without the social and solidarity aspects. Consequently, incorporating the human rights approach is simply to be aware of this relationship and try to promote it. This project has been possible thanks to the participation of over thirty experts, plus an incalculable -group of collaborators, territorial delegates, suppliers, cooperativists, network members, workers, activists ...- who have shared their learning experience and, in some cases the result of years of work, and in others, the freshness and enthusiasm of the beginning.
Summary of bilateral results