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Argentina Works Plan (Plan Argentina Trabaja) (2009-2018)

 

 

Date: 2009-
Web: Official website of the programme
Description: This programme creates inclusion opportunities that improve the life quality of families from marginal urban neighbourhoods through the generation of job vacancies, training, and promotion of a cooperative organization for the execution of infrastructure construction. Then, the impact is doubly positive: on one hand, it creates new job vacancies that favour collective participation over individual participation, and on the other hand, it improves communitarian spaces having a direct impact on the daily life of the neighbours.
   

Characteristics

Target population: Households in situation of vulnerability
Area of intervention: Remedial education
Technical and professional training
Support to self-employment
Direct job creation
Geographic scale: National
   

Institutionality

Legal framework: National Law N° 26.117
Resolution of the Ministry of Social Development Nro.3182 / 09
Decree Nro.1067 / 09
Resolution N° 2176/13
Responsible organization(s): Ministry of Social Development
Executing organization(s): Ministry of Social Development
Source of funding: Government of Argentina
   

1) Social Income through work (Ingreso Social con Trabajo)

Recipient(s): Persons in situation of vulnerability, without formal incomes within the household, without pensions nor any other social allowance, with the exception of the National Plan of Food Security (Plan Nacional de Seguridad Alimentaria).
Description: This programme creates inclusion opportunities that improve the life quality of families from marginal urban neighbourhoods through the generation of job vacancies, training, and promotion of a cooperative organization for the execution of infrastructure construction. Then, the impact is doubly positive: on one hand, it creates new job vacancies that favour collective participation over individual participation, and on the other hand, it improves communitarian spaces having a direct impact on the daily life of the neighbours.

 

2) Social and Productive Projects “Let's get to work" ("Manos a la Obra“)

Recipient(s): Physical persons that present themselves individually or associated and need a support for a productive project that they are leading or they want to start, in the framework of social economy.
Description: This instrument promotes inclusive development of the different localities and regions of the country by encouraging productive projects that could be personal, familiar or associative and that promote self-employment and incorporate goods and services of good quality with fair prices to the economy. The support has two possibilities: on the one hand, the funding of the machines, tools and supplies for productive, service or commercial enterprises; and, on the other hand, the permanent technical assistance (capacitation, organization and monitoring) to strengthen and optimize the operation of the projects. The implementation will be carried out with municipality, government and social organizations' teams, that act like executive organizations. This means that they present the intervention propositions to the Ministry, which can include one or more projects, receive the subsidies, buy and deliver the supplies and tools, and monitor and yell the funds to the Ministry.

 

3) National Programme of Microcredits for Social and Solidarity Economy (Programa nacional de Microcrédito para la Economía Social y Solidaria)

Recipient(s): Persons that do not have patrimonial warranties or do not satisfy the conditions to acceed traditional bank credits.
Description: The programme targets workers that develop productive, service or commercial enterprises in an associative and/or familiar way and need resources to buy supplies and machines or to develop their activity. It is specially focused on persons that do not have patrimonial warranties or do not satisfy the conditions to access traditional bank credits.

 

4) They Do (Ellas hacen)

Recipient(s): Women with preferably three or more dependent children, under 18 or disabled children who receive the Universal Child Allowance, or suffering from gender violence.
Comments: They receive an income, as salary for their work, through a personal card
Description: Promotion of community participation to improve urban infrastructure, as well as the school completion to improve their employability, family esteem and recognition. The participants can be trained and complete their primary and / or secondary education. They also can participate in other vocational training such as construction, comprehensive training in rights, cooperativism and social economy, gender perspective, and urban citizenship. In addition, as a requirement, women who have no education must complete primary or secondary education.

 

Del “Argentina Trabaja - Programa Ingreso Social con Trabajo” y el “Ellas Hacen” al “Hacemos Futuro”. ¿Integralidad o desintegración de la función social del Estado?

Author: Ferrari, C. and J. Campana
Date: 2018
Publication info: Observatorio sobre Políticas Públicas y Reforma Estructural, Informe No 11, FLACSO
Link: See Webpage
Topic: Study

 

 

 

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