Productive Integration Program

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The general objective of this project is to help improve the productivity and competitiveness of small businesses and microenterprises by integrating them into the rest of the national productive structure. Innovative, replicable mechanisms of linkage and technical assistance will be employed. In principle, the project will mainly support various sectors that have been preidentified because of they have significant potential for growth through integration and because they are sectors in which microenterprise and small business predominate. These sectors include fashion, jewelry, footwear, furniture, leather goods, electronics, and graphic arts.Through technical assistance and training activities, support will be provided for a portfolio of seven productive integration projects, some of which will be selected from a list of 11 projects already identified by FUNTEC, targeting small businesses and microenterprises. Each of the projects will group a number of businesses, which will vary according to the integration mechanism required by the businesses. The projects will integrate small businesses and microenterprises into the production chain by linking them with larger businesses and/or will promote horizontal cooperation between small businesses. Given the sectors and projects identified, an estimated average of 80% of the beneficiary businesses will be small businesses and microenterprises.