{"id":2240,"date":"2016-07-01T16:19:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T15:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripess.eu\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2021-03-23T10:34:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T09:34:34","slug":"inaise-2016-international-networks-convergence-opportunities-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.eu.ripess.rio20.net\/en\/inaise-2016-international-networks-convergence-opportunities-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"INAISE 2016: International networks convergence, opportunities, challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The\u00a0<\/b><b><i>International Association of Investors in the social economy (<\/i><\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inaise.org\/?q=en\"><b><i>INAISE<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>)<\/i><\/b><b>\u00a0held its annual conference in Montreal, May 11-13 May<\/b>. About 180 participants were present. This association\u00a0<b>includes various types of institutions of social and solidarity finance on an international level<\/b>, ranging from cooperative financial institutions such as the Caisse d\u2019\u00e9conomie solidaire Desjardins, Banca Etica in Italy, ethical banks like Triodos Bank in the Netherlands and Community Sector Banking in Australia. Several microfinance institutions, Oikocredit or the African Network MAIN, are also members.\u00a0<b>The\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inaise.org\/?q=en\/members-2015\"><b>complete<\/b><\/a><b>\u00a0list, with members in every continent, is found on the website<\/b>. Historically, relations between INAISE and RIPESS exist since at least 2004.<\/p>\n<p><b>&gt; See the link to the\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inaise.org\/?q=en\/node\/23646\"><b>Program &amp; Presentations<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>The conference this year focused on the theme\u00a0<\/b><b><i>Contributions, promises and challenges<\/i><\/b>. Among other things, the plenary sessions were carried on the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Financial tools for the empowerment and solidarity and responsible economic development;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Cooperatives and their role in the social economy and local development;<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Family farming and value chains;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Thereafter, the participants exchanged in workshops<\/b>\u00a0on\u00a0<i>social economy and women entrepreneurship<\/i>,\u00a0<i>social economy and sustainable development<\/i>\u00a0as well as\u00a0<i>savings and credit unions.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>The penultimate session focused on the Foundations and support for the social economy<\/b>. Usually foundations make grants according to their mandates. These grants come from revenues on investments and interest. What is new is that foundations give themselves responsible investment policies and even dedicate a portion of their funds for patient capital funds for SSE enterprises. One of the obstacles to this practice in laws and regulations that prevent or restrict the development of such a practice.<\/p>\n<p><b>RIPESS was invited to participate in the roundtable<\/b><b><i>\u00a0International networks: convergence, opportunities, challenges.<\/i><\/b>\u00a0Six organizations in the social economy and ESS spoke:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Milder Villegas \u2013 President INAISE<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0G\u00e9rald Larose \u2013 Vice President \u2013 Mont Blanc Meetings (MBM)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Alain Arnaud \u2013 President CIRIEC International<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Laurence Kwark \u2013 Secretary General \u2013 GSEF (Global Social Economy Forum)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Yvon Poirier \u2013 RIPESS<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Claire Brodin \u2013 Savings Without Borders (France)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The panel was moderated by Chantal Line Carpentier of the New York Office of UNCTAD<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. She was known by most of the organizations since she spoke at the meeting of the International Leading Group on SSE on 28 September in New York. After a presentation of each organization, explaining who they are and what they fonts, each expressed his vision of collaboration. All expressed their willingness to collaborate to advance alternatives that represents the SSE.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of RIPESS, I expressed our desire to continue collaborations we have already, even though they may be variable, with other organizations. This is particularly the case with INAISE, the MBM and GESF that are SSE organizations. We have no relationship with CIRIEC International, nor with Savings Without Borders, which are more in research, but we were willing to have.<\/p>\n<p>After insisting, on behalf of RIPESS, it was important to\u00a0<b>build the movement at every level, local, regional, national and international, to put forward an alternative development model to capitalism and state economies<\/b>, a clarification become necessary. Indeed, the next speaker, Alain Arnaud from CIRIEC intervened to say that from his point of view, the SSE advocates a plural economy, that it aims to take it\u2019s a place next to the private sector and the public economy. Before I had the opportunity to make a clarification, G\u00e9rald Larose from MBM expressed a position quite similar to that of RIPESS. He replied to Alain Arnaud, that we could indeed have a plurality in the form of business, but that as a system, we could not talk about plural economic system. For him, we must indeed\u00a0<b>speak of an alternative model to capitalism as a system<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>We must be grateful to INAISE for organizing this spirit of cooperation, that we must continue\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><i>Note written by Yvon Poirier, member of RIPESS Board<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0International Association of Investors in the social economy (INAISE)\u00a0held its annual conference in Montreal, May 11-13 May. About 180 participants were present. 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