Empretec Annual Report 2011 - Unctad XI

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Name of the Centre:Empretec Panama FoundationName of the Director:Lourdes NavarroEmail-address:Lourdes.navarro@Empretecpanama.orgWebsite:www.Empretecpanama.orgYear of Inception:200001• Empretec workshop—6 daysworkshop (full day) or two weeks(half a day)Products and Services• Empretec workshops forMicroentrepreneurs in rural areas• Empretec workshops for indigenouscommunities (Kuny Yala and Darién)in indigenous language.Highlights of 2010/2011• Empretec Intrapreneurship workshop• Mentoring for women through NGOVital Voices in alliance with Empretec• Empretec 2 day workshopson specific topics including teambuilding, associativity and leadership.Staff Members:6Number of Entrepreneurs Trainedsince Inception:90156PanamaEMPRETEC ANNUAL REPORT 201102MDG ProgrammeIn 2010, together with UNCTAD, theEmpretec Panama Foundation launchedEmpretec activities in rural Panamaunder the United Nations Joint MDGProgrammes, “Entrepreneurial NetworkOpportunities for Poor Families.” Anew Empretec product was developedparticularly for the target population ofthis programme, namely rural womenentrepreneurs in the crafts, agriculture,services and tourism sector in provincialPanama, with low levels of literacy. 10Empretec workshops for micro entrepreneurswere delivered between 2010and 2011 in the provinces of Coclé,Herrera and Santiago.Partnerships and mentoringEmpretec Panama has also organizedseveral activities in alliance with stratetgicpartners. For example, in 2010,it organized an entrepreneurship awarenessForum for secondary schoolstudents in alliance with the Ministry ofEducation. In 2011, in cooperation withthe Chamber of Commerce, EmpretecPanama organized a breakfast Forumon Entrepreneurship, Mentoring andSocial Responsibility, thereby raisingawareness for Empretec. More than 60entrepreneurship institutions attendedthe forum which featured PanamanianEmpretec finalist for the Empretec Womenin Business Award 2012, Melissade León. In addition, traditional Empretectrainings have also taken placein Panama City, notably in alliance withthe Chamber of Commerce as part oftheir yearly Entrepreneurship Project.In 2011, Empretec Panama forgedan alliance with the NGO Vital Voiceswhich runs a nationwide women mentorshipprogramme, whose mentors andmentees now have the opportunity tobenefit from the Empretec training aspart of the process. The first Empretecworkshop for women mentees was heldin August 2011 in Panama City.Training of trainersEmpretec Panama also had the opportunityto participate in a regional trainingof trainers which was held in Cartagena,Colombia in early October 2011. It wasa great experience to be able to meetinstructors from other regions and shareexperiences with other centres.
03Success StoriesNARANJITASAdrianaAdriana is from a small rural area in the province of Herrerain Panama. She took the Empretecworkshop in August 2011 as part of thealliance between the Empretec programmein Panama and the NGO. Vital Voices’swomen mentoring programme. Her goalwas to start a party decoration business.During the ETW, she realized that she hadset this goal as a long term dream but didn’thave any concrete short term objectives toreach it. For her Business Creation Exercise,she decided to sell oranges and shedid very well. In the last day of the workshop,as she planned her next goals in the“next steps” module, she decided her goalwas to go beyond oranges and start selling other typesEstablished in 2011ETW taken in 2011of food. After the workshop, she then started a companycalled “naranjitas”. Many of her clients whoshe sold food to asked whether she alsocatered during parties. She then realizedthat this process that she had begun wasa concrete first step towards her long termdream to start a party decoration companysince food was very connected to parties.Only one month later, she now offers arange of services including food and partydecoration within her Naranjitas company.“Empretec allowed me to bring my dreamfrom a fantasy to a concrete reality withshort term objectives to move forwardand make it happen.’’KENIAKenia VerdoorenKenia is from Bijagual, Antón in provincial Panama. Shetook the Empretec training for micro entrepreneursin October 2011 under theUN Joint MDG Programme, ‘‘EntrepreneurialNetwork Opportunities for Poor Families.’’She produces beautiful local artisanalproducts, including traditional hair piecesand embroidered dresses for specialoccasions. She works from home andbenefits from an artisanal certificationby the Ministry of Micro and SMEs inPanama. Her main clients are musicgroups, schools and individualsinterested in typical dresses and products. When sheEstablished in 2009ETW taken in 2010was interviewed almost one year after the workshopsas part of an impact evaluation, theEmpretec interview demonstrated that thebehaviour that she developed most sinceEmpretec were setting goals, persuasionand networking. She was able to obtaina micro credit of USD$390. Not onlythat, she also put herself an ambitiousgoal which she achieved this year, tobe able to complete a diploma of touristservices by the Ministry of Micro and SMEs.“Thanks to Empretec, I have achieved thegoals that I have set for my business.”EMPRETEC ANNUAL REPORT 2011 57
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