| Date: | 2003- |
| Web: | Official website of the programme |
| Description: | The objective of the Social Economy Promotion Programme is to contribute to improving the income of people living in poverty by strengthening the capacities and means of social economy sector organisations (OSSE), as well as of people with incomes below the welfare line integrated in social groups, who have productive initiatives. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | Social Sector Organizations of the Economy (OSSE) and persons with incomes below the welfare line, organized in social groups (at least three people) |
| Area of intervention: | Support for independent work |
| Geographic scale: | National |
| Targeting method: | Categorical: People whose income is below the welfare line, integrated into social groups or organizations of producers and independent producers who have productive initiatives Geographical: Towns in municipalities categorized as i) Rural Priority Attention Zones (ZAP); ii) Indigenous Population (CDI); iii) High and very High rate of Marginalization; iv) 50% of the population with income under the welfare line. |
| Instrument of selection: | Criteria of the National Council for Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval), information from the Single Socioeconomic Information Questionnaire (CUIS) and through physical checks or visits made to households |
| Registry of recipients: | Development Focus System (SIFODE) |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | |
| Responsible organization(s): | Secretariat of Welfare (Bienestar) |
| Executing organization(s): | Secretariat of Welfare (Bienestar) |
| Source of funding: | Government of Mexico |
1) Implementation of new productive projects
| Recipient(s): | Programme participants |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct recipient |
| Comments: | The economic support is given to the group once. Salaries, wages, adaptation works, remodeling or construction on public lands and technical assistance cannot be supported. |
| Description: | Delivery of capitalisable economic resources for productive projects aimed at groups of at least three people, which promote the reinvestment of the income generated by the project. Support may be granted for the acquisition of new assets, fixed investment, deferred investment and/or working capital. In this modality, support can be granted up to MXN$ 50 thousand per member of the group and up to a maximum amount of MXN$ 250 thousand Mexican pesos per project. |
| Amount : | MXN$ 50,000 (per each member) to MXN$ 250,000 (per project) |
2) Development of productive initiatives
| Recipient(s): | recipients of the programme |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct participant |
| Description: | In-kind support for the formulation of productive projects, technical assistance and accompaniment granted by the General Directorate of Productive Options (DGOP) to social groups made up of at least three people with incomes below the welfare line. The support is granted through an institution of higher or higher education. |
| Amount : | Up to MXN$ 100,000,000 for the Project Formulation Process and MXN$ 10,000,000 for the Accompaniment Process |
3) Capacity Development
| Recipient(s): | Recipients of the programme |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Social Sector Organizations of the Economy (OSSE) |
| Description: | Cash support granted by the National Institute of Social Economy (INAES) to the Institutions for the promotion and development of the social economy (INPROFES) for capacity building processes of the OSSE. |
| Amount : | Up to MXN$ 100,000 in cash and MXN$ 80,000 in kind. |
4) Support for Social Banking
| Recipient(s): | Programme participants |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Social Sector Organizations of the Economy (OSSE) for savings and credits |
| Description: | Economic support in cash or in kind which is granted by the National Institute of Social Economy to promote and support the creation, transformation, strengthening, consolidation and integration of Social Sector Organizations of the Economy for savings and credits. |
| Amount : | Up to MXN$ 1,500,000 (in cash) |
Meta evaluación del Programa de Opciones Productivas (POP)
| Author: | Cejudo, Guillermo M. |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Publication info: | Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), México |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Metaevaluation |
Evaluación Externa del Programa Opciones Productivas
| Author: | Márquez, Graciela |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Publication info: | El Colegio de México (Colmex) |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Design evaluation |
