Community-based tourism contest selects ten winning ventures in Ecuador
The Community Tourism Entrepreneurship Contest organized by Rimisp’s Ecuador office and the Autonomous Decentralized Government of the province of Pichincha has chosen ten winners out of twenty initiatives submitted to participate in this contest.
GDR – Ecuador seeks solutions to improve rice and corn trade
Different market alternatives to improve the marketing of small corn and rice producers were analyzed by Ecuador’s Rural Territorial Dialogue Group.
Development of the gender agenda continues in Piura, Peru
Within the framework of the program “Territories in Dialogue. Inclusion and Rural Welfare” promoted by Rimisp and the organization CEDEPAS Norte, a training day to prevent cases of violence against women and people with disabilities was held for more than 70 officials from public institutions in the districts of Ignacio Escudero, Miguel Checa, La Huaca, Amotape, Tamarindo, El Arenal, Colán, Vichayal and Paita, in the region of Piura in the north of Peru.
Employment and Income Protection in Times of Pandemic
The global pandemic situation of COVID-19 that we have been following weekly in our COVID-19 Situation Analysis, this time does not lead us to delve deeper into the adoption of measures to mitigate the serious economic, labor and social effects that are being generated. In the context of a continent such as Latin America, with high levels of income inequality and dual labor markets, in which the formal sector coexists with high rates of informality and precarious employment, it is the most vulnerable people, sectors and territories that will be most affected by the crisis.
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