| Date: | 2007-2014 |
| Description: | This is an integral intervention that seeks to promote processes of socio-entrepreneurial strengthening for vulnerable women, creating a culture of saving and empowerment through gender awareness; financial education; building entrepreneurial skills; promoting formal microfinance services, and applying a savings incentive to generate resources for strengthening their own productive enterprises. In addition to the training process (116 hours), women participants are encouraged to save in a bank account, reaching targets in amounts, thus, the final output would be saving women with higher capacities. In this respect, during six months women participants should save COP$ 300,000 and will have to attend meetings, so the government supports them with about half the saved amount. For this, the requirement is to have a productive activity or business, or a business idea. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | Women classified in SISBEN levels 1 and 2. |
| Area of intervention: | 1) Professional and vocational training 2) Support to self-employment |
| Geographic scale: | National |
| Targeting method: | Categorical (Women of the Red Unidos, in displacement, vulnerable and Más Familias en Acción participants Proxy means test (SISBEN Levels 1 and 2) |
| Instrument of selection: | SISBEN |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | |
| Responsible organization(s): | Departamento para la Prosperidad Social (DPS) |
| Executing organization(s): | Departmental governments, Caja de Compensación familiar del Valle del Cauca –COMFANDI-,Fondo Nacional del Ahorro |
| Source of funding: | Government of Colombia |
1) Training
| Recipient(s): | Women participants |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct participant |
| Description: | The training is focused on the individual development of women. Training sessions include gender equality issues, microfinance, business skills and associativity/cooperativism. The participants will receive a certificate. The length of the training is 116 hours. |
2) Financial inclusion
| Recipient(s): | Women participants |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct participant |
| Description: | Participants will have access to a preferential savings product. If they meet the goal of saving COP$ 300,000 and attend training, women participants will receive a savings incentive (COP$ 150,000). |
3) Association / cooperativism
| Recipient(s): | Women participants |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct participant |
| Description: | This component promotes the association/cooperativism between women participants in order to increase their probabilities of development and conducted different social and cultural activities. |
Proyecto Mujeres Ahorradoras en Acción: Lecciones Aprendidas de esta Experiencia
| Author: | Zilveti, Veruschka and Fuentes, Laura |
| Date: | n/a |
| Publication info: | Proyecto capital |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Study |
Línea de base y evaluación. Mujeres ahorradoras en acción.
| Author: | Acción Social / IICA |
| Date: | 2011 |
| Publication info: | Agencia Presidencial para la Acción Social y la Cooperación Internacional - ACCIÓN SOCIAL- Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura - IICA |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | General information. Baseline and follow up |
Sistema de seguimiento y evaluación. Línea base VS seguimiento. Mujeres Ahorradoras en Acción
| Author: | Acción Social / IICA |
| Date: | 2009 |
| Publication info: | Agencia Presidencial para la Acción Social y la Cooperación Internacional - ACCIÓN SOCIAL- Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura - IICA |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | General information. Baseline and follow up |
Historias de cambio. Mujeres ahorradoras en Acción.
| Author: | Acción Social / IICA |
| Date: | 2009 |
| Publication info: | Agencia Presidencial para la Acción Social y la Cooperación Internacional - ACCIÓN SOCIAL- Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura - IICA |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | General information First outputs. |
