{"id":43738,"date":"2019-10-23T15:16:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/promocionsocial.org\/el-observatorio-mujer-e-igualdad-omei-y-14-organizaciones-sociales-de-7-paises-de-america-latina-promueven-el-emprendimiento-de-la-mujer-en-la-region\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T12:29:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T12:29:48","slug":"el-observatorio-mujer-e-igualdad-omei-y-14-organizaciones-sociales-de-7-paises-de-america-latina-promueven-el-emprendimiento-de-la-mujer-en-la-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promocionsocial.org\/en\/el-observatorio-mujer-e-igualdad-omei-y-14-organizaciones-sociales-de-7-paises-de-america-latina-promueven-el-emprendimiento-de-la-mujer-en-la-region\/","title":{"rendered":"The Women and Equality Observatory (OMEI) and 14 social organizations from 7 countries in Latin America promote the entrepreneurship of women in the region"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Women and Equality Observatory (OMEI)<\/em> of the Social Promotion Foundation<\/em> dedicated its day of the Seminar “Women, transforming society”<\/strong> to entrepreneurship, leadership, and communication of social organizations in Latin America.<\/p>\n

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Non-governmental organizations from Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Colombia, Panama, and Peru, shared initiatives and experiences to combat poverty generated by the inequality of opportunities between men and women through the promotion of women’s entrepreneurship in their countries.<\/p>\n

Fighting this gap was one of the objectives that the observatory marked with this seminar that took place on October 17 and 18 at the Women’s Training Center “Las Gravileas”<\/em>, in Antigua (Guatemala).<\/p>\n

Mar\u00eda Beamonte,<\/b> General Director of the Social Promotion Foundation<\/em>, opened the day, referred to the 35 years of existence of the Foundation and its commitment to promote better living conditions for women and reduce inequalities between women and men through its projects, and highlighted the creation of the Observatory Women and Equality (OMEI).<\/p>\n

She invited the active participation and reflection of directors and managers of Latin American NGOs, together with the experts in leadership, entrepreneurship and communication participants.<\/p>\n

Leadership: key to project success<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

At the table dedicated to the topic of leadership<\/em>, M\u00f3nica R\u00edos<\/b>, General Secretary of the Network of NGOs for the Development of Ibero-American Countries (REDI),<\/i> referred to the concept of organizational leadership, which is the one that is “styled now”, and that is characterized in that it is shared at all levels, “not only at the top” of the organization.<\/p>\n

“Organizational leadership is committed to a mission because it is worth it, shares success and is at the service of its employees and puts everything at the service of the mission” M\u00f3nica R\u00edos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The OMEI Coordinator,<\/em> Julieta de Micheo,<\/b> said that a society is enriched “when it has both men and women, although it has to break with several stigmas.”<\/em> In his opinion, the real wage gap at work is “being a mother or not,”<\/em> since a woman has to face “more challenges than men: family and work.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Keys to entrepreneurship success<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Mar\u00eda Tosca<\/b>, Director of Employment, Training, and Entrepreneurship of the Chamber of Commerce of Spain,<\/em> and Ana Fern\u00e1ndez Ardavin,<\/strong> Dean of the IMF Business School,<\/em> participated in the following table dedicated to entrepreneurship<\/em>.<\/p>\n

According to Mar\u00eda Tosca, and according to a UN report, “women have less access to men’s financing and start their businesses with 50% less funding than men do.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Between 30 and 50% of micro SMEs are led by women, according to the World Bank, but women earn between 60 and 75% of men’s wages.<\/p>\n

Still, women-led business projects have a lower mortality rate than men.<\/p>\n

For her part Ana Fern\u00e1ndez Ardavin stated that in order to undertake, women lack self-confidence and that women must be helped to discover their potential.<\/p>\n

Presentation of successful initiatives to boost female entrepreneurship<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Latin American NGOs, members of the NGO Network for the Development of Ibero-American Countries (REDI),<\/em> also the promoter of the Seminar,\u00a0 participated in a table of exchange of good practices in promoting women’s entrepreneurship in their respective countries:<\/p>\n

Ana Luc\u00eda Estrada<\/b>, Director of the women’s training center \u201cLas Gravileas\u201d<\/em> (Guatemala); Amalia Gonz\u00e1lez,<\/b> Executive Director of ANDECU<\/em> (Nicaragua) who presented her \u2018Social Incubator\u2019<\/em> project; Karla Rodr\u00edguez,<\/b> General Manager of FUDI<\/em>, (Guatemala);\u00a0Ing. Lesli Moreno<\/b>, Director of the Agricultural Center \u2018Utz Samaj\u2019 <\/em>(Guatemala);\u00a0and Mar\u00eda Dolores Patal,<\/b> rights holder of \u2018Utz Samaj\u2019<\/em> (Guatemala); Myra Ortiz,<\/b> Vice President and Project Director of INDESCO<\/em> (R. Dominicana) who spoke about the \u2018Serran\u00eda Hotel Technical School\u2019<\/em>; and Jessica Calvo and Gabriela Carazo<\/b>, Hogar y Cultura<\/em> (Costa Rica) who made a presentation on the Suri educational project, and specifically the Transformarte Project \u2019initiative.<\/p>\n

The importance of communicating projects led by women<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The last conference of the day, dedicated to the topic of communication, was attended by Paloma Cervilla,<\/b> ABC Journalist,<\/i> in her presentation is said that “what does not communicate does not exist”<\/em> and stressed the importance of social networks to get to know the work that these organizations do. She insisted that it is important that all members of these groups have a presence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram and that they use them regularly creating what is called a “personal brand”<\/em>, which serves to identify a person with a specific project.<\/p>\n

After the concluding sessions of the Seminar, it was closed.<\/p>\n

The conference of the previous day was dedicated to publicizing the new ways to raise funds and to improve sources of funding, was carried out by I\u00f1aki D\u00edaz<\/b> and Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Arias<\/b>, of the cooperation consultant I\u00f1aki D\u00edaz.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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