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Labour and Productive Inclusion Programmes

Yo Emprendo Semilla (Ex Microenterprise Support Programme -PAME) (Programa de Apoyo al Microemprendimiento) (2002- )

Date

2002-

Description

The program supports people over 18 years of age, unemployed or precariously employed, belonging to the 40% most socioeconomically vulnerable according to the Socioeconomic Qualification of the Social Household Registry, or who are beneficiaries of the SSyOO subsystem, or people in a situation of poverty or specific vulnerability who do not have RSH, to access financing and capacity building for the development of an enterprise. The program provides training services, technical advice and financing to support the development of microenterprises that are at an initial stage. The program has two lines of work: one is oriented to the Subsistema Seguridades y Oportunidades and the other is regular.

Characteristics

Target population

People over 18 years of age, in a situation of poverty and/or vulnerability who are unemployed or inactive (Source: Casen, 2017).

Geographic scale

National

Targeting method

Direct means testing, the program uses as an allocation criterion the person's membership in the first bracket of the Socioeconomic Qualification (40%) of the Social Registry of Households or the person's membership in the Social Protection Subsystem Seguridades y Oportunidades (whose membership indicates poverty or extreme poverty, according to the same verification instrument, the CSE.

Instrument of selection

Social Protection Record (FPS)

Registry of recipients

Social Household Registry (RSH)

Comments

Changes in the intervention strategy as a result of the health context: Mainly, adjustments were made to the bidding conditions and their respective guidelines in order to facilitate the execution of the components under the face-to-face or remote modality, depending on the case of each territory, in terms of changes in the step-by-step plan that could affect the development of project activities. Flexibility was allowed in terms of budget modifications, deadlines and adaptation of specific activities to one or the other modality, according to need, all with prior justification by the executor and in agreement with FOSIS.

Institutionality

Legal framework

Law Nº 18.989

Responsible organization(s)

Social Inversion and Solidarity Fund (FOSIS)/ Ministry of Social Development and Family

Executing organization(s)

Social Inversion and Solidarity Fund (FOSIS)/ Ministry of Social Development and Family

Source of funding

Government of Chile

1) Comprehensive support service for micro-entrepreneurship (Regular version)

Recipient(s)

1) Belonging to the 40% of the Socioeconomic Qualification (CSE) bracket; 2) A person who is unemployed, inactive, looking for a job for the first time or qualified as "precariously employed at the time of applying; 3)Beneficiaries are prioritized according to previous participation in FOSIS programs, participation in SERNAMEG Program (MJH) considering work with a gender approach; and finally 4)The condition of specific vulnerability is considered, for those who are not in the 40% of the RSH, which is supported by the responsible institution that validates the profile through a report. These beneficiaries correspond to 1%.

Amount

CLP $846,900

2) Integral support service for micro-entrepreneurship (in its version "Seguridades y Oportunidades").

Recipient(s)

1) Belonging to the Seguridades y Oportunidades subsystem; 2) A person who is unemployed, inactive, looking for a job for the first time or qualified as "precariously employed at the time of applying; 3)Beneficiaries are prioritized according to previous participation in FOSIS programs, participation in SERNAMEG Program (MJH) considering work with a gender approach; and finally 4)The condition of specific vulnerability is considered, for those who are not in the 40% of the RSH, which is supported by the responsible institution that validates the profile through a report. These beneficiaries correspond to 1%.

Amount

CLP $846,900

Evaluación de Impacto de los Programas de Empleabilidad del Fondo de Solidaridad Social (FOSIS) del Ministerio de Desarrollo Social. Informe 3 – Resumen Ejecutivo

Author

Centro de Microdatos

Date

2016

Publication info

Departamento de Economía. Santiago: Universidad de Chile.

Topic

Impact evaluation

Capacitación laboral para la autonomía económica de mujeres en situación de pobreza. El caso de Chile.

Author

Muñoz Rojas, C

Date

2017

Publication info

Serie Asuntos de Género No 149, CEPAL, Naciones Unidas, Santiago de Chile

Topic

General study

Evaluación Comprehensiva del Gasto FOSIS

Author

SOLUCIONES INTEGRALES

Date

2004

Publication info

Santiago: MIDEPLAN

Topic

General information

EVALUACIÓN EN PROFUNDIDAD PROGRAMAS DE MICROEMPRENDIMIENTO

Author

DIPRES (Statcom)

Date

2009

Publication info

Santiago: STATCOM Estadísticos Consultores

Topic

Impact evaluation

SATISFACCIÓN USUARIOS 2008 DE PROGRAMAS FOSIS, MEDICIÓN 2010

Author

FOCUS - Adimark

Date

2011

Topic

General information

Micro-Entrepreneurship Training and Asset Transfers: Short term impacts on the poor

Author

Martínez, C., Puentes, E., and Ruiz Tagle, J.

Date

2013

Publication info

Departamento de Economía. Santiago: Universidad de Chile.

Topic

Impact evaluation