1.Faced with the absence of regulation of the world economy, faced with massive poverty that leads to the exclusion of an increasing segment of the population, particularly woman an d children, and faced with threats to the planet’s ecological balance, counter-trends are emerging in wich we reflect our reality. We are people who are undrtaking initiatives in civil society which are taking shape in the space for innovation that has been opened up by crisis. These initiatives define social and solidarity-based economy in the same sense of the Lima Declaration 

The social/solidarity-based economy is based on cooperation, sharing and collective action. This perspective puts people at the heart of social and economic development.Economic solidarity is based on an economic, political, and social project that introducesa new way of doing politics and of establishing human relationships based on consensusand citizen action.

2 In many respects, the social/solidarity-based economy is engaged in developing innovative responses to problems raised by globalization. It is helping develop a new way of experiencing and thinking about the economy. Through tens of thousands of projects, the civil society is being rebuilt, particularly by the associational movement in the North and the South, each translating, in its own way, the desire for another globalization.

3 We consider that local development, the social/solidarity-based economy, as well as a healthy civil society are among the pivotal concepts of development. These statements of identity by communities help redefine development. They establish new institutions, new avenues for action, and show how local initiatives can have an impact on development processes at the national, and international level.

4 The movement is embryonic, very diverse, and heterogeneous. Not all of its strategies are convergent, and its stances are frequently defensive. Political resistance is being vigorously asserted, forcing major institutions and States to amend the directions proposed by the major promoters of neo-liberalism.

5 But it is also making proposals. Avenues are emerging that must be explored by relying on the desire of these networks and organizations to find solutions to concrete problems as they arise. The time seems right to work together towards the common goal of democratizing development. This energy allows strong expression of alternate proposals and projects concerning major international challenges, and the appearance of new forms of international cooperation.

6. We want the social, solidarity-based economy to be involved in:
- mastering the world economy;
- respecting and protecting the environment
- controlling over the transformation of employment, work, and social production;
- analyzing and altering the interaction between the neo-liberal economic order and the patriarchal order
- democratizing development.

7. To achieve this, we have identified the challenges common to all sectors of activity, and those challenges
specific to the major areas in which we are involved. These fields are local development and financing, international cooperation, proximity services, public policy, housing, transfer of knowledge, fair trade, employment, art and culture, and peace.

8. We hope to create an international liaison commission made up of four (4) people to head networks in each continent (Latin America and North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific). This decentralized
commission will look after the implementation of the priorities defined at the Second International Meeting on the Globalization of Solidarity and will harmonize the continental networks. It will be responsible for setting up a technical team to support the international liaison process.

9. This international liaison commission, backed by a technical team, will define the tasks among which the Organization of the 3rd International Meeting on the Globalization of Solidarity to be held in Dakar (Senegal) according to the principle of our movement of North South alternation.