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5 May 2020
RUDI Multi-trading Company: Locally- owned Agricultural Trade Network
The Rural Urban Distribution Initiative (RUDI) was set up in India in 2004 by the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA). It is a...
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5 May 2020
IBEKA: Community-owned and Managed Mini Grids in Indonesia
Institut Bisnis dan Ekonomi Kerakyatan (IBEKA), or People Centred Economic and Business Institute, supports rural electrification by...
Brief
3 April 2020
PUMA: Solidarity Economy in Pumarejo, Spain
Published by: IDS
The Community Exchange Scheme in the Pumarejo neighbourhood of Seville is one of many examples of solidarity economies rooted in...
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3 April 2020
National Street Vendor Association: Lobbying for a National Urban Street Vendor Policy in India
Published by: IDS
The National Street Vendor Association (NASVI) in India is an association of Indian street vendor organisations working to protect the...
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3 April 2020
Participatory Guarantee Systems in Tanzania: Locally Focused Quality Assurance Systems
Published by: IDS
Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGSs) are alternative certification schemes for organic products, built on trust and social networks,...
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3 April 2020
W.L. Gore & Associates Inc.: Workplace Democracy in a Transnational Corporation
Published by: IDS
W. L. Gore and Associates (Gore) is a privately-held multinational company founded in 1958. Since its founding, it has operated through...
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3 April 2020
‘Empresas Recuperadas’: Argentina’s Recovered Factory Movement
Published by: IDS
The ‘empresas recuperadas' or worker-recovered enterprise movement in Argentina emerged as a response to the country's sovereign debt...
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3 April 2020
ASMARE: Informal Waste Workers Engaging in Municipal Policy-Making
Published by: IDS
ASMARE is an association of informal waste workers ( catadores ) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Founded in 1990, it was the first step of...
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3 April 2020
The RSA Citizens’ Economic Council: Citizen Contributions to Policy Making Highlights
Published by: IDS
The RSA’s Citizen Economic Council was a two-year programme (2016-2018) in which 59 citizens conducted their own enquiry into economic...
News
28 March 2018
Open Call: looking for examples of where people have a say in their economic future
A new IDS project is looking for examples of where people are empowered to have their say in their economic future, whether in economic policymaking or grassroots economic alternatives – can you help?