Not so long ago, I met the concept of Transformative Social Economy (ESE). At least I would have named him two or three years ago, or at most four, maybe certain practices and ways of doing that I had previously seen or lived in a natural way around me. But now it's ESE, at least in our micro, the word that's fashionable. How many times have we written about this in ARGIA? How many experiences and reflections have we counted? You don't have to answer, reader, a lot, I know. But do we then do what we write inside the house?

The production cooperative Farapi has carried out a participatory process in ARGIA in recent months around the company’s social co-responsibility. Farapi has created a tool to work on the topic in institutions and companies: diagnosing and marking lines of work based on results. To walk towards social co-responsibility or for those on the way to make improvements. In this case, the cooperative has taken the first steps in collaboration with the Beterri Development Agency in the application of this tool in different companies in the region.

But how is social co-responsibility measured?

“Companies are usually just organized to make money,” explains Nico Foroni, a member of Farapi. But what impacts do they have on the environment, society or territoriality? These first sessions reflect on nine criteria such as the relationship with suppliers and customers, the conditions of workers, the environment or participation.

Nico Foroni explains that it is noted that ARGIA has already worked on these issues before. “It has worked very well on the nine criteria, but it has things to improve, and that’s what needs to be addressed now,” he says. The tour is divided into three levels. ARGIA has done the first, that of diagnosis and reflection. From there, we move on to the second phase: with the results in hand, the improvement plan is put in place and the steps to be taken in the medium term are marked.