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Improving women’s access to financial services
This document evaluates the component of the Puno-Cusco Corridor Project looking to strengthen financial services .Its goal is to include rural women in the financial system through the use of savings accounts.


One of the study’s conclusions is that savings accounts have become a positive asset for the women. The beneficiaries found that financial savings helped reduce their economic vulnerability and strengthened them psychologically.
Carolina Trivelli
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Conditional transfers and mobilization of savings. Concept paper
Although the percentage of poor people (those earning less than a dollar a day) in Latin America is decreasing, the absolute number has increased. This concept paper proposes public intervention to design an effective poverty-reduction strategy.

The Capital Project’s goal is to convince Latin America’s conditional cash transfer programs to encourage savings and inclusion in the banking system. In order to help the region’s poorest inhabitants develop new assets.

Yves Moury
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About the project
The Capital Project is a regional initiative in Latin America and the Caribbean
to assist with the design and implementation of public policies linking social
protection with financial inclusion, especially by mobilizing grassroots
savings.
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Workshop N°3: Popular savings and monetary trasnfers in experience exchange proyects
“El Banco de las Oportunidades” and the Capital Project organized a seminar in Bogotá, Colombia, on the 14th and 15th of April, 2009. Participants of this seminar were the representatives of the Colombian agencies “Acción Social, Familias en Acción, Oportunidades Rurales, Mujeres Ahorradoras y Jóvenes Ahorradores”. The principal point of discussion was the inclusion of the beneficiares of these programs into the financial system through the use of savings accounts.

The program also included the presentation of the Capital Project by Yves Moury: another presentation offered by Carolina Trivelli and César Sotomayor in regard to the Peruvian experiences with pilot programs in the southern Andes/ Sierra and the Puno/Cuzco Corridor, and finally, the Colombian experiences were also presented for discussion.


The seminar ended with a debate between representatives of “Departamento Nacional de Planeación (DNP)”, “Familias en Acción”, “Acción Social”, “Banca de las Oportunidades”, Agricultural Ministry, la Red- Juntos, Agro Rural and Capital Project.

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© This project is financially supported by the Ford Foundation
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Horacio Urteaga 694, Jesús María,
Lima - Perú

Diseño e implementación: TALLER 201

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