AGENCY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - ADS

PRESENTATION ROLE OF ADS FOR WORK AND INCOME GENERATION IN VIEW OF THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY 1

ADS CREATION The Agency of Sustainable Development – ADS, was created in 1999 by the CUT, UNITRABALHO, DIEESE and FASE

1 2 POLITICAL CONTEXT OF ADS CREATION Productive Re-structuration Market Opening Privatisations. Hegemony of Neoliberal Ideals 3 4

1 2 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). 3

1 2 3 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 Ipromote the values of solidarity in society; IImake easier and enlarge workers access to credit; IIIprovide agents” formation in the construction of the solidarity economy and professional formation directed to the enlargement of autonomy and management capacity; IVbuild new knowledge on the solidarity economy field and do studies which guide on strategies and agency´s politics definition; Vsupport the creation and effectiveness of solidarity enterprises; VIorganize solidarity economy networks articulated to strategies of sustainable developement; VIIenlarge workers access to information on public policies and market; VIIIprovide technical, juridical and political assistance to solidarity organizations; IXpromote 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 Generation Sustainable solidarity Development

ADS PRINCIPLES Democratic and solidarity management of work and production Income Distribution Sustainable and solidarity Development Permanent education of 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. IIInvolve the community (appreciation of local space, forming ties of reciprocity, sense of belonging, commitment of the individuals before of the society). IIIContribute with the political organization of the enterprises. IVOrganize the workers as unionists cooperated/members/informal (by/in historical sectors and sector of solidarity economy). VMobilization 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 2

1 2 LEGAL LANDMARK Laws of Bankrupcy. Laws of Cooperativism Laws of Tax Laws. Laws of Social Security 3 4

1 SUSTAINABILITY Economical Environmental Cultural 2 3

1 2 PUBLIC POLICIES Credit / Costs / Investment Education and Professional Qualification Technical Assistance Technology and Research 3 4