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Department of Social Development and EmploymentSEDI/OEA

Intersectoral Perspectives on the Cooperation for the Promotion

of Micro-enterprises

Francisco PilottiDirector of the Department of Social Development and Employment

SEDI/OAS

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Background: XIV IACML

• Working Group 1

Contribute to the analysis and promotion of measures aimed at strengthening the competitiveness and productivity of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and other production units, in the areas of technical and financial assistance and professional training, considering the local level as a factor for development and employment generation.

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Background: IV Summit of Mar del Plata

• MSMEs are a fundamental component of economic growth, job creation and the reduction of poverty and inequality.

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MSME: Employment and Poverty

• Microentrepreneurship – Heterogeneous– Job creation– Precariousness and vulnerability

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Common Interventions

• Training

• Access to technology

• Administration and management

• Commercialization of inputs and outputs

• Access to credit

• Fostering productive chaining

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Sectoral Approach

• Economy– Productivity

• Labor– Training

• Social Development– Poverty

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By the means of:

- Identification of shared challenges

- Undertaking cooperation activities to address them

Labor

Poverty

Economy

Inter-American networks in labor,

social development and MSMEs

Supporting MSMEs is a

priority for all of these sectors

Intersectoral Approach to Support MSMEs

They meet where common

challenges exist

External

Actors

The OAS, with external support is a catalyst to address these challenges

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DSDE Networks

The DSDE is the Technical Secretariat of:

• The Inter-American Conference of the Ministers of Labor and its advisory bodies

• The Ministerial and High Level Meeting of Social Development

• The Social Network for Latin America and the Caribbean

And supports the activities of:• The SME Congress of the Americas

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The Activities of this Network

• Support the political process of each forum

• Horizontal cooperation strategy– Presenting and updating national Programs that are

potentially transferable to other countries– Workshops to share experiences

• Update comprehensive websites on Specialized Meetings

• Design and maintain a Virtual Dialogue Fora

• Technical and political videoconferences

• Interagency alliances

• Consultations with Civil Society and the Private Sector

The DSDE seeks to strengthen a network of permanent dialogue in all of its thematic areas, by the means of:

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Supporting the development of micro and small-sized enterprises as a strategy for job creation and

combating poverty in the Americas

Support to the Micro, Medium and Small-sized Enterprises

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Specific Objectives:

• To identify, organize and systematize the best practices in creating and developing micro and small enterprises

• To prepare a concept paper on the state of the art of this topic in the Americas and develop a virtual space that presents the best practices

• To contribute to the hemispheric dialogue on the topic through a technical and political meeting

Support to the Micro, Medium and Small-sized Enterprises

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Results

• Intersectoral workshop, July 25-26, 2006– Ministry of Labour of Brazil and Chile

• Microenterprise, poverty and employment in Latin America and the Caribbean: A proposal.

• Conclusions and recommendations• http://www.sedi.oas.org/ddse/mipymes/ingles/

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Conclusions and Recommendations

• Microenterprises as the unit to be addressed

• Territorial development as an strategy to support microentrepreneurship

• Intervention areas

– Training

– Financing

– Innovation

– Formalization

– Government procurement