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The objective of this call is to support private and public entities that can design and implement innovative solutions leading to the labor inclusion and gender equality of people with disabilities in the firms of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Through this call, launched by the Innovation Lab of the Competitiveness and Innovation Division, the Inter-American Development Bank aims at identifying practical answers to the following question:
- How can we use technology and innovation to promote labor inclusion and gender equality for people with disabilities?
- What are the innovations that private sector players need to remove barriers?
- What is the demand for such solutions?
- Are there firms that are labor inclusive and gender equal through innovation?
- Are there innovators that can help firms to be more inclusive and gender equal?
Actors from the private sector are showing an increasing commitment to making their workplace more inclusive and gender equal. This is because firms want to leverage the talent of their human resources, irrespective of their disabilities or gender. In addition, there is increased evidence that those firms that are Socially Responsible are rewarded by their internal and external stakeholders and perform better in the market.
On one hand, employees are happier, more productive, and more committed to the firm because of its attention to human rights and non-discriminatory practices. On the other hand, more customers are paying attention to the social impact that a firm has, and they are more likely to purchase products made by firms with a socially responsible reputation because these products have an added social value.
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Poverty Elimination through Inclusive Village Banking for Low-Income Women with Disabilities
Title of the projectPoverty Elimination through Inclusive Village Banking for Low-Income Women with Disabilities |
Name of the firmFUNDACION PARAGUAYA |
Country where it will be implementedParaguay |
Description of the innovationIn 2008, Fundacion Paraguaya (FP) developed an innovative poverty self-evaluation tool called the “Traffic Light” that enables participants to identify and understand the various dimensions of poverty and make targeted, individual solutions for overcoming the elements of poverty in their lives. By breaking down a complex/daunting situation like poverty into smaller, more manageable parts, FP empowers women with disability to become protagonists in their individual plans for overcoming poverty. The goal is to incorporate women with disabilities into FP’s highly regarded village banking program to give them access to the financial and non-financial services they need to improve their lives. |
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Supported-Employment strategy lead by People with Down Syndrome
Title of the projectSupported-Employment strategy lead by People with Down Syndrome |
Name of the firmSOCIEDAD PERUANA DE SINDROME DOWN |
Country where it will be implementedPERU |
Description of the innovationPeople with Down Syndrome (PWDS) lead the changes needed to achieve their inclusion in working-settings and obtain decent jobs. They are leaders promoting the full exercise of their citizenship towards independent living. The innovation is that they are not objects of attention, but rights holders speaking-up for themselves. |
Vision of the project and impact you wish to seeThe objective is to promote the supported –employment strategy with the active participation of PWDS themselves. The existing prejudices, misinformation and exclusion regarding their abilities will be addressed by themselves, their families and professionals committed to the achievement of a society based in justice, solidarity and socially responsible. Leading the activities of awareness and information for public and private enterprises, mass media and their own families, regarding their capacities, tax benefits, contribution to a good working environment and the good and successful practices regarding supported employment in the country, will contribute to change the social perception of PWDS. The Project also seeks to promote practice in the working place, where their vocation and abilities can flourish, and to develop supported employment as a way to advance in the achievement of independent living. We’ll have the Ministry of Work as an ally. |
Inclusión Laboral de Personas con Discapacidad
Title of the projectInclusión Laboral de Personas con Discapacidad |
Name of the firmSofia Beteta |
Country where it will be implementedGuatemala |
Description of the innovationThe business paradigm of "Corporate Social Responsibility" means a business vision that integrates business management, respect for ethical values, people and environment. Diversity as part of a strategy for decision making, based on the business model and reflected in their values. Diversity and discrimination are issues that involve moral and ethical concepts, relate to the assessment that we human beings, enterprises and governments have begun to associate productivity and profits, generating policies and strategies assuming equality of opportunity and equity for people who have been discriminated against. |
Vision of the project and impact you wish to seeThe project aims to create a center for training and job placement for people with disabilities to be of the best to provide society with a workforce able to engage in productive activities and thus improve if economic situation. Flirt center activities the job market for people with disabilities to get a job on their own. The human factor in business has become a vital capital for business success. Currently, a company is sustainable and enduring in time, only to the extent that is committed to its human capital and create pathways that promote workplace diversity. Companies that have made an institutional commitment to our country, and they have opened their doors and modified their spaces for the integration of people with disabilities, have realized that their team is revitalized and increase their productivity and competitive advantage. Also manage to convey-the rest of the team-responsibility factors, greater timeliness and quality of work performance that characterizes professionals with disabilities. |
“Tendiendo puentes para un sueño”
Title of the project“Tendiendo puentes para un sueño” |
Name of the firmAsociación Arariwa |
Country where it will be implementedPerú |
Description of the innovationInnovation is to be a consultant in Sociolaboral insertion "Building bridges for a dream", that develop awareness and dissemination actions of the right to work and livelihood, inclusive and employment worthy of persons with disability and/or family members (women and men) by the means of social communication, to go progressively mediating and make covenants of social responsibility with entrepreneurs and officials of State institutionswhere commit insert occupationally disabled people and/or families, according to prescribed by the new law of persons with disabilities # 19973 in Cusco Province. |
Vision of the project and impact you wish to seeSeeks to advise people with disability and/or family members to evaluate each person applicant to a particular job, allowing to insert them into specific jobs getting a labour market profile and the development of adaptive skills in workplace as well as the compatibilization of profiles of people with disability and jobs. We will also advise private companies and public institutions that signed the Covenant on social responsibility, for a suitable social and labour insertion. Consultant not neglect the work of promotion of the participation of organizations of people with disabilities (OPDs) in the processes of socio-labour insertion, monitoring processes are carried out with transparency and respect for legal norms. The impact of the project will be through the Covenants on Corporate Social responsibility, private and State institutions, implement actions suggested by the consultant, with contributions from properly systematized transfer, so as to promote decent employment of persons with disabilities requiring both opportunities. We also incidiremos so that the Regional Directorate of labour has a specialized Office in labour insertion to private enterprise and State institutions, implementing the new law |
Training in Information Technology and development of integration capabilities on the labor market
Title of the projectTraining in Information Technology and development of integration capabilities on the labor market |
Name of the firmHaiti Tec |
Country where it will be implementedHaiti |
Description of the innovationHandicap in Haiti has always been considered to be a curse. This is why the Haitian educational system is marked by the exclusion of handicapped people. Very few are formed and of this insignificant number, mostly men, almost none are integrated on the job market. Training in Information Technology, which is a cross-cutting sector, reinforced by two other trainings in entrepreneurship and job search, will develop skills in demand on the market and facilitate the integration of handicapped people, 80% of whom women, in the labor market and / or the development their own business. This will be a first. |
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