Rev. Takeyasu Miyamoto’s article is featured in UNICEF’s special website for the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
An SNV working group in the sectors of biofuels, Inclusive Business and education have developed a project with a company whose key activity is developing energy projects. Low-income communities will provide services to this company for the development of biofuels.
This proposal envisages the use on the part of the company of 10,684 hectares of fallow land set aside for the cultivation of sugar cane used to produce automotive ethanol. The company has anticipated that 90 agricultural workers coming from the low-income sector will be employed in growing the sugar cane, benefiting from a tailored curricular programme. For this, a Higher Technological Institute has been identified to help SNV develop the proposed curricular programme. At this stage of the proposal, it is envisaged that services will be contracted to micro- and small-sized enterprises at the construction stage in addition to production and the commercial link-up phase.
For more information, contact Cecilia Carrillo: ccarrillo@snvworld.org
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The iVentures investment fund that will launch operations next year will promote economic inclusion through the development of Base of the Pyramid (BoP) capacities to implement successful Inclusive Businesses (IB).
An important business strategy when incorporating the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) within company value chains is to build capacity in the low-income sector. To achieve this objective, SNV has designed the iVentures investment fund as a mechanism through which to create financial incentives that allow financing for the development of local capacities, so that the BoP can establish sustainable commercial relationships with businesses.
For more information, contact Richard Jones: rjones@snvworld.org
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The Work Experience Certification Scheme is a tool developed by SNV to certify competencies gained in the workplace and the skills of workers not yet recognised in the formal labour market.
The certification of workers that have not had sufficient academic opportunities offers important benefits for the company and the workers alike. For the company it represents an increase in productivity and savings in the manufacturing process. For the worker, the qualification offers better opportunities to increase income and guarantee insertion into the formal labour market.
According to recent data from SNV in Bolivia, the percentage of people who do not count on some form of work qualification totals 70% of the 4.5 million economically active people in the country.
For more information, contact Juan Espinoza: jespinozadelvillar@snvworld.org
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The Work Experience Certification Scheme is a tool developed by SNV to certify competencies gained in the workplace and the skills of workers not yet recognised in the formal labour market.
The certification of workers that have not had sufficient academic opportunities offers important benefits for the company and the workers alike. For the company it represents an increase in productivity and savings in the manufacturing process. For the worker, the qualification offers better opportunities to increase income and guarantee insertion into the formal labour market.
According to recent data from SNV in Bolivia, the percentage of people who do not count on some form of work qualification totals 70% of the 4.5 million economically active people in the country.
For more information, contact Juan Espinoza: jespinozadelvillar@snvworld.org
