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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
Department of Social Development and EmploymentSEDI/OEA
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/
default.asp
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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