PROVISIONAL SYNTHESIS FORUM FOR THE CROSS-EVALUATION OF PROPOSALS FOR A RESPONSIBLE, UNITED AND PLURAL WORLD

GLOBAL CROSS-SYNTHESIS: 30 PROPOSALS FOR AN ALTERNATIVE WORLD MODEL

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6. GLOBAL CROSS-SYNTHESIS: 30 PROPOSALS FOR AN ALTERNATIVE WORLD MODEL

VIII. Evaluation of Women’s Work

26. Formulate adapted and diversified indicators of wealth and work. Indica-tors must be modified in order to bring to light the traditional activities car-ried out by women, the voluntary activities of both women and men, the immaterial aspects of the quality of life, activities that create social cohesion, the importance of free, convivial and "non-productive" trade. (02.10.)

IX. Social Money for an Economy of Solidarity

27. Deeply study the uses of social money, so as to understand its evolving logic, its constraints and possibilities to make headway with the construction of an economy in solidarity that benefits from these advantages, without succumbing to the temptation of premature centralization. (06.02.)

28. Deepen the study of proposals related to hybrid systems of social and official money. Create strategies to enable the use of consumer’s and money powers to strengthen economy in solidarity. Create a strong internal flow network among the movements concerned with the three stages of eco-nomic production (production-trading-consumption) already included or likely to be converted to the socio-economy of solidarity: ethical, responsi-ble, sustainable. Create strategic alliances with productive sectors. Build and publish examples (“show cases”) with rigid studies that highlight their his-torical and cultural particularities, their successful aspects, and mainly, their difficulties. (06.14.)

29. In order to encourage integrated development, Fair Trade must attempt to link its actions with other economy of solidarity practices in the environ-ment of producers and consumers.
Fair Trade shares a number of values in common with these practices, which offer opportunities of synergy and common strategy that are often unex-ploited. The economy of solidarity is characterised by its diversity of prac-tices, among which we could mention social money, traditional systems of savings and credit, and traditional and contemporary forms of collective work. (09.09.)

X. Need for a Political Project

30. Decisions capable of changing economic relations largely depend on the existence of a political project, thus it is vital to encourage the active partici-pation of women in political procedures. (02.15.)