Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
In this episode, Denison Jayasooria, a sociologist by training who is currently active in social and community work at the grassroots level, shares his concerns regarding questions of justice and exploitation. He gives prominence to the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) as an alternative solution for addressing these concerns and shares how the SSE entities work toward self-reliance and resilience. He emphasizes the importance of the income generation model of the SSE entities as a key aspect of the SSE to ensure it is self-sustaining and elaborates on how the SSE entities at the grassroots and community levels can help achieve the SDGs. To read the Encyclopedia’s entry on the SDGs and the SSE visit unrisd.org/encyclopedia-sse
In this episode, Denison Jayasooria, a sociologist by training who is currently active in social and community work at the grassroots level, shares his concerns regarding questions of justice and exploitation. He gives prominence to the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) as an alternative solution for addressing these concerns and shares how the SSE entities work toward self-reliance and resilience. He emphasizes the importance of the income generation model of the SSE entities as a key aspect of the SSE to ensure it is self-sustaining and elaborates on how the SSE entities at the grassroots and community levels can help achieve the SDGs. To read the Encyclopedia’s entry on the SDGs and the SSE visit unrisd.org/encyclopedia-sse
