| Date: | 2007-2014 |
| Description: | This is a comprehensive intervention that seeks to promote socio-entrepreneurial strengthening processes for women in situations of social vulnerability, generating a culture of savings and empowerment through gender awareness, financial education, the installation of entrepreneurial skills, formal linkage to microfinance services and the application of a savings incentive to generate resources to strengthen their productive enterprises. In addition to the training process (116 hours), the women who take part in the programme save in a bank account, so that they have to meet goals in the amounts so that the end result is women savers with greater capacities. For six months, users must save COP$300,000 and attend a series of meetings, so that the government will support them with about half of the amount saved. A prerequisite for this is to have a productive activity or business, or an idea that they want to carry out. |
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): | Department for Social Prosperity (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 recipient |
| Description: | Training process focused on the individual development of women. Training sessions include gender equity, microfinance, entrepreneurial skills and associativity. Participants will receive a certificate. The training lasts 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 $300,000 savings target and attend the training, they receive a savings incentive (in the amount of $150,000). |
3) Association / cooperativism
| Recipient(s): | Women participants |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct participant |
| Description: | This component encourages the association of the target groups to increase their possibilities of development and to successfully carry out 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. |
