TAPPING POTENTIAL OF SSE FOR SDGS The Asia Solidarity Economy Council (ASEC) hosted a side event on “Social Solidarity Economy & SDGs, Tapping the potential” at the Asian Pacific People Forum on Sustainable development on March 26, 2018 at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand About 20 people from various CSOs from eleven Asian gathered at this session which was moderated by Datuk Dr Denison Jayasooria, who is the Chair of ASEC and who is a Malaysian with the Institute of Ethnic Studies, National University of Malaysia (UKM). In his opening address he highlighted the clear links between SSE concepts and the SDG core values (People, prosperity, planate, peace & partnerships). He noted that there would be a conceptual discussion of these as well as specific case studies addressing SDG 11 on the informal sector in cities, as well as SDG 15 on rural and forest based communities. Dr Ben Quinones the former/past chair of ASEC dwelled on the 5 key SSE principl