| Date: | 2006- |
| Web: | Official website of the programme |
| Description: | This programme funds social cooperatives that promotes collective labour projects that allow the labour insertion of persons living in poverty, exclusion, social vulnerability and with unsatisfied basic needs. Labour positions are created collectively to make possible development and social inclusion opportunities for its members and decent income generation. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | Men and Women, persons with disability, ethnic minorities, and every person in poverty or social vulnerability situation. Persons without employment or with irregular work as subsistance income. |
| Area of intervention: | Direct job creation (Support to social projects) |
| Geographic scale: | National |
| Comments: | Until 25% of the members can be persons who are not in conditions of vulnerability, which can bring more knowledge and experience to the group. |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | Law 18407 (2008) |
| Responsible organization(s): | Ministry of Social Development (MIDES) |
| Executing organization(s): | Ministry of Social Development (MIDES) |
| Source of funding: | Government of Uruguay |
1) Social Cooperatives
| Recipient(s): | Men and Women, persons with disability, ethnic minorities, and every person in poverty or social vulnerability situation. Persons without employment or with irregular work as subsistance income |
| Comments: | A condition for participating in the programmes is to be a group of five persons(minimum) with a sustainable project |
| Description: | The Social Cooperative is a company which owning is collective; it belongs to the associate-workers, who take independently their decisions. The associate-worker perceive the wage established by the salary council for the activity area of the cooperative. It is also an education tool and promotes citizenship development because its own principles and values base as cooperative. |
Las políticas públicas para la promoción de cooperativas en Uruguay (1935-2008). Entre el retroceso del Estado y el avance del mercado
| Author: | Martí Pérez, Juan Pablo |
| Date: | 2019 |
| Publication info: | Universidad de la República, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Tesis Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales con especialización en Historia Económica |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Study |
Estudio de trayectorias laborales
| Author: | Ministry of Social Development (MIDES) / National Directorate of Evaluation and Monitoring (DINEM) |
| Date: | 2017 |
| Publication info: | Working paper No 61 |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Study |
Cooperativas sociales. Resultados de Evaluación.
| Author: | Ministry of Social Development (MIDES) / National Directorate of Evaluation and Monitoring (DINEM) |
| Date: | 2013 |
| Publication info: | Working paper No 16 |
| Link: | See Webpage |
| Topic: | Qualitative evaluation |
