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"CAF supports this initiative because it creates opportunities for low-income populations by integrating them into the productive sector, and helps micro-entrepreneurs improve their production skills and establish sustainable links with the large companies of the country," CAF director representative in Bolivia Emilio Uquillas said, during the signing of the agreement.
For his part, Ney Barrionuevo, manager of SNV Bolivia, said there were attractive opportunities in Bolivia for inclusive business in which companies develop new products and services and incorporate segments at the base of the pyramid into the value chain, as suppliers or new customers.
In this framework it is hoped that Inclusive Businesses will develop - over the next eight months - focused on the agricultural, food, forest and value-added export sectors, which will supply affordable products and services to thousands of new customers in excluded segments, and over 300 micro and small producer families in Bolivia which - by including them in the business clusters - will gain access to the formal economy, with possibilities of training and access to finance.
In the first phase of the program over a dozen Inclusive Business proposals were evaluated; and four projects were prioritized which are now in execution stage in the areas of financial micro-transactions, micro-insurance, nutritional pharmaceutical products, and dairy industry.
The Inclusive Business program which CAF will finance aims to harness the private sector's innovative and managerial capacity to develop initiatives which create solutions for exclusion at the same time as generating profits for the business sector.
The SNV, Netherlands Development Corporation, is a Dutch organization which works to reduce poverty and promote better governance by developing the capacities of local actors. With over 40 years experience in the region, it acts as catalyst of a common agenda by providing strategic advisory services and facilitating knowledge development for public, private and social sectors.
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