| Date: | 2016- |
| Web: | Official website of the programme |
| Description: | Social programme for financial inclusion aimed at the initiatives of women who develop or wish to undertake socio-productive activities individually or collectively, in order to overcome poverty and contribute to the economic development of the country. The programme aims to finance and strengthen the independence of Venezuelan women and protect the family economy. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | Women of legal age, Venezuelan or foreign residents, who develop or wish to undertake socio-productive activities individually or collectively. |
| Area of intervention: | 1) Support for independent work |
| Geographic scale: | National |
| Targeting method: | 1) Means test 2) Categorical |
| Instrument of selection: | Census of women who are productive or in vulnerable conditions. |
| Comments: | The enterprise must be in its initial or start-up phase (up to 3 years of operation) and must have the necessary physical space to carry out the socio-productive activity. |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | |
| Responsible organization(s): | Ministry of Popular Power for Women and Gender Equality. |
| Executing organization(s): | Ministry of Popular Power for Women and Gender Equality with the support of public banks (Banco Venezuela, Banco Bicentenario and Banco del Tesoro). |
1) Delivery of Credits
| Recipient(s): | Women entrepreneurs, especially in situations of vulnerability. |
| Periodicity of delivery: | One-off transfer (100% of the approved credit amount is paid). |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Direct participant |
| Comments: | After evaluation of the project proposal, the credits have a maximum term of 5 years to be repaid, with a six-month grace period. |
| Description: | Provision of loans to finance working capital, such as the purchase and/or acquisition of merchandise, material, inputs and inventory or raw material; acquisition of fixed assets such as equipment, goods, working tools, among others; and for the acquisition, purchase and processing of animal protein. |
| Amount : | The amount will depend on the qualitative-quantitative analysis of the applicant, its viability and the productive analysis of the activity. |
