AGENCY FOR SUSTAINABLE

DEVELOPMENT - ADS

PRESENTATION

ROLE OF ADS FOR WORK AND INCOME GENERATION

IN VIEW OF THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY

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ADS CREATION

The Agency of Sustainable Development – ADS, was created

in 1999 by the CUT, UNITRABALHO, DIEESE and FASE

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POLITICAL CONTEXT OF ADS CREATION

Productive Re-structuration

Market Opening

Privatisations.

Hegemony of Neoliberal Ideals

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CONSEQUENCES OF THE POLITICAL MODEL EFFECTIVE THEN (1999)

Unemployment.

Social Exclusion.

Crisis in the Trade Union Movement (Regression of Trade Union Rights and Crisis of Representativity).

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POLITICAL PROJECT OF THE CUT

Organize workers in a Category Perspective

Organize Unemployed and Excluded

Influence/Focus in the Development of the Country.

Guarantee Rights to All. 4

ADS GLOBAL OBJECTIVE

To promote formation, strengthening and articulation of solidarity and self-managed enterprises searching work and income generation, through

economical, social and political organization of the workers inserted in a sustainable and solidarity development process

INSTITUTIONAL OBJECTIVES

I promote the values of solidarity in society;

II make easier and enlarge workers access to credit;

III provide agents” formation in the construction of the solidarity economy and professional formation directed to the enlargement of autonomy and management capacity;

IV build new knowledge on the solidarity economy field and do studies which guide on strategies and agency´s politics definition;

V support the creation and effectiveness of solidarity enterprises;

VI organize solidarity economy networks articulated to strategies of sustainable developement;

VII enlarge workers access to information on public policies and market;

VIII provide technical, juridical and political assistance to solidarity organizations;

IX promote consistent activities to the sustainable principles of development;

X encourage representative organizations of the solidarity, self-managed and informal enterprises in a local, regional, state and national scope.

Constitution, Strengthening, Articulation and Cooperation of the

self-managed enterprieses

Economical, Social and Political Organization, solidarity to the workers

Work and Income GenerationSustainable

solidarity

Development

ADS PRINCIPLES

Democratic and solidarity management

of work and production

Income Distribution

Sustainable and solidarity Development

Permanent educationof the workers

Respect to Ethnic, Cultural, Regional,

Environmental and Gender Diversity

ADS STRATEGY

I Articulate the constitution of productive chain networks of sector and geographic location.

II Involve the community (appreciation of local space, forming ties of reciprocity, sense of belonging, commitment of the individuals before of the society).

III Contribute with the political organization of the enterprises.IV Organize the workers as unionists

cooperated/members/informal (by/in historical sectors and sector of solidarity economy).

V Mobilization for the strengthening of the solidarity economy (self-determined issues, construction of identity, awareness, society, contesting hegemony, construction of a model of solidarity inclusion).

DEMANDS AND CHALLENGES OF

THE solidarity ECONOMY IN

BRAZIL

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LEGAL LANDMARK

Laws of Bankrupcy.

Laws of Cooperativism

Laws of Tax Laws.

Laws of Social Security

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SUSTAINABILITY

Economical

Environmental

Cultural

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PUBLIC POLICIES

Credit / Costs / Investment

Education and Professional Qualification

Technical Assistance

Technology and Research

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