Deadline: 24-Apr-24
Fondo Mujer has launched the calls for proposals for FOMMUR Line No. 1 that seeks to enhance the economic autonomy processes of rural women through support, incentives or compensation.
This call seeks to select organizations made up and led mostly by rural women that will be beneficiaries of co-financing line No. 1 of the Development Fund for Rural Women -FOMMUR-, an initiative led by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development implemented in alliance with the Free and Productive Women’s Fund, which seeks to promote the incorporation and consolidation of rural women and their organizations within the country’s economic and social policy.
FOMMUR represents an important instrument to promote rural development with an equality focus in Colombia. By prioritizing the needs and potential of rural women, the FONDO MUJER contributes to the construction of a more equitable, inclusive and prosperous country, where all people, regardless of their gender or geographic location, have the opportunity to develop their maximum potential and contribute to the sustainable development of the country.
Benefits
- Improve the productive, commercial, administrative, associative, and financial capacities of the organization, the skills of the rural women who lead it, and strengthen relationships with suppliers and clients, through technical assistance and close accompaniment.
- Produce more and/or more competitively by accessing machinery, equipment, technological packages, among other productive assets, worth up to $70 million pesos per organization.
Duration
- The duration of the intervention will vary according to the results of the diagnosis and the strengthening actions identified for each beneficiary rural women’s organization. In any case, it will not exceed ten (10) months from the signing of the contract between the beneficiary organization and the FONDO MUJER.
Eligibility Criteria
- Be an organization made up and led mostly by rural women.
- Have a minimum of five (5) rural women as members.
- That the rural women associated with it are Colombian women over 18 years of age.
- That at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the rural women associated with it are women belonging to categories A, B or C of SISBEN.
- That less than eighty percent (80%) of the associated rural women have received benefits from the Comprehensive Agricultural and Rural Development Projects (by the Rural Development Agency), from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (through of Productive Alliances, the Campo Emprende or the Agricultural Development Fund), the calls of the AUNAP.
- That she has not been a beneficiary of any FONDO MUJER program in which she has received productive assets.
- What, the property where the productive initiative is implemented is rural, which is in accordance with the use and treatments of the soil in accordance with the respective applicable territorial planning instrument, without being located in an area that presents high non-mitigatable risk.
- That it has had sales for more than one (1) year.
- That adds value and/or transforms raw materials (for example: ferments, dries cocoa beans or transforms them into table chocolate).
- And it is located in one of these municipalities:
- Amazonas: Leticia, Puerto Nariño
- Antioquia: Apartadó, Murindó, Mutatá (Belén de Bajirá), Necoclí, Vigía del Fuerte.
- San Andrés Archipelago: San Andrés and Providencia.
- Bolívar: Magangué, Mahates (San Basilio de Palenque), Morales, Simití
- Caquetá: Puerto Rico
- Casanare: Chámeza, Hato Corozal, Nunchía, Orocué, Támara.
- Cesar: Valledupar (La Mina), Aguachica, Becerril, La Jagua de Ibirico.
- Chocó: The Canton of San Pablo.
- Guaviare: San José del Guaviare, Miraflores.
- La Guajira: Barracks, Distraction.
- Nariño: Barbacoas, MagÜí, Roberto Payán.
- Sucre: Sincelejo, San Benito Abad, San Marcos.
- Tolima: Chaparral.
- Cauca Valley: Buenaventura, Florida, Pradera.
For more information, visit Fondo Mujer.