Pro Mujer Inc.

04/29/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 04/29/2024 18:27

Paraguayan Women Will Be Trained in Entrepreneurship Thanks to Fogapy and Pro Mujer

Paraguayan Women Will Be Trained in Entrepreneurship Thanks to Fogapy and Pro Mujer

The Emprende Pro Mujer platform will arrive in Paraguay for the first time thanks to the recent agreement signed between Pro Mujer and the Guarantee Fund for Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (Fogapy), the Paraguayan government entity in charge of offering credits and other financing mechanisms.

Both organizations will join forces, sharing administrative and technological infrastructure and individual capabilities to collaborate on this program, which will give access to free online training for women entrepreneurs in the Republic of Paraguay for six months.

50 women will take part in the pilot program and train in skills for starting and strengthening their businesses, such as how to identify value propositions, how to use various digital channels, how to determine costs and budgets, and how to lead. These are skills that can be strengthened through Emprende Pro Mujer, the platform that empowers and enables training opportunities for women entrepreneurs through micro-trainings and learning pathways adapted to their context and to their needs.

These women will join the 40,000 women who have benefited from the program offered by the Emprende Pro Mujer platform, which has reached 23 countries in the region through its digital model and the over 3,000 thousand women in southeastern Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and, who have taken part in its hybrid model, soon to arrive in Argentina and Colombia as well.

"For Pro Mujer, helping Paraguayan women reach their maximum potential is a joy and, above all, a testament to the commitment we have to all women in Latin America. We know that changing the life of a woman means changing the life of an entire community, and that is why we are excited to get started together with Fogapy in this country," stated Carmen Correa, CEO of Pro Mujer.

In this case, Pro Mujer seeks to have a positive impact on the lives of women who, according to ILO data, have a labor informality rate of 64%. Furthermore, the femininity index in poor households is 122, one of the highest in the region (ECLAC).

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