Proyecto
Juventudes: El Campo en movimiento
Project funded by the Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development
Project results
Learning outcomes to strengthen capacities, gender equality, and innovative strategies in the MEEJR: improved coordination, female empowerment, sustainable development, and increased income.
Improved Coordination and Articulation
The objective is to improve collaboration between rural youth organizations in Colombia's 32 departments, facilitating the effective implementation of joint initiatives for the advancement of rural youth.
Strengthening Businesses and Organizations for Sustainable Development
Fortalecer las capacidades de las empresas y organizaciones que integran la MEEJR (desarrollo sostenible, igualdad de género, incidencia, finanzas, producción y comercialización.
Strategies to increase revenue
Consolidar estrategias de producción y comercialización (mercados diferenciados y procesos de innovación) para incrementar ingresos.
Women's Empowerment
Incorporar lineamientos de igualdad de género para potenciar el empoderamiento, participación y liderazgo de las mujeres jóvenes integrantes de las organizaciones y empresas de MEEJR.
The project aims to benefit rural youth from farming, ethnic, and diverse backgrounds by strengthening their entrepreneurial initiatives in areas such as agricultural and non-agricultural production, green and sustainable businesses, biotrade, ecotourism, and other rural services. These efforts are designed to generate sustainable income and contribute to the revitalization of local economies, fostering innovation, natural resource management, and the implementation of rural development with a territorial approach in the Colombian countryside. The active participation of young people in the creation of rural policies and programs is essential for the success of these initiatives.
OUR MISSIONS
We continue exploring the regions where the ‘Youth in the Countryside on the Move’ project is present. This initiative gives us the opportunity to travel through our territory, learn from diverse life experiences, engage with local institutions, and showcase the entrepreneurial initiatives that are part of La Mesa de Empleabilidad y Emprendimiento Juvenil Rural.
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OBJECTIVES MEEJR
OBJECTIVES
General:
Contribute to implementing the national policy on entrepreneurship and sustainable employability for rural youth.
Specific:
Improve comprehensive access to employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for rural youth through public policy dialogue and the incorporation of a gender pathway within the Rural Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship Roundtable (MEEJR), capacity building, and the sustainability of organizations and enterprises that promote sustainable rural development with a territorial approach.
El proyecto está orientado a apoyar la Mesa Nacional de Empleabilidad y Emprendimiento Juvenil Rural (MEEJR), como una instancia de diálogo y trabajo conjunto entre organizaciones de jóvenes rurales de los 32 departamentos, el sector público (nivel nacional, regional y local), sector privado y universidades; que buscan contribuir a superar algunas de las causas estructurales que afectan la participación activa de los jóvenes, especialmente los jóvenes rurales en su propio desarrollo. Entre dichas causas, se destacan:
Structural problems that the project addresses.
01.
Low Incidence and Participation in Public Policies:
Challenge: Lack of active representation of young people in the design and implementation of public policies.
Objective: To increase the participation and impact of rural youth in the development of policies that directly affect their communities.
02.
Insufficient Capacities and Access to Opportunities:
Challenge: Limitations in capacities and access to opportunities for organizational and empowerment processes for rural youth.
Objective: To strengthen capacities and provide access to opportunities that enhance the personal and collective development of rural youth.
03.
Deficient Production and Marketing Strategies
Challenge: Inefficient production and marketing strategies, resulting in low levels of income sustainability for rural youth.
Objective: To develop and promote improved strategies for production and marketing, ensuring sustainable income and greater economic viability.
04.
Gender Inequality in Rural Activities:
Challenge: Persistence of gender inequalities in rural activities, organizational processes, and participation.
Objective: To promote gender equality by encouraging the active participation, leadership, and empowerment of young women in all rural initiatives and activities.
Project results
Learning outcomes to strengthen capacities, gender equality, and innovative strategies in the MEEJR: improved coordination, female empowerment, sustainable development, and increased income.
Improved Coordination and Articulation
The objective is to improve collaboration between rural youth organizations in Colombia's 32 departments, facilitating the effective implementation of joint initiatives for the advancement of rural youth.
Strengthening Businesses and Organizations for Sustainable Development
Strengthen the capacities of the companies and organizations that make up the MEEJR (sustainable development, gender equality, advocacy, finance, production, and marketing).
Strategies to increase revenue
Consolidate production and marketing strategies (differentiated markets and innovation processes) to increase revenue.
Women's Empowerment
Incorporate gender equality guidelines to promote the empowerment, participation, and leadership of young women who are members of MEEJR organizations and companies.
En este sentido, el proyecto busca apoyar a hombres y mujeres jóvenes campesinas, étnicas y diversas de la ruralidad para el fortalecimiento de sus emprendimientos relacionados con producción agropecuaria y no agropecuaria, negocios verdes y sostenibles, biocomercio, ecoturismo, y otros servicios rurales, que generen ingresos sostenibles y que permitan una revitalización de las economías locales, la innovación, el manejo de los recursos naturales y la implementación del desarrollo rural con enfoque territorial en el campo colombiano, lo cual está hoy determinado por el mayor o menor grado de la inclusión de los jóvenes en la construcción de las políticas y programas rurales.
This project, supported by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS), will directly benefit more than 5,449 young rural, ethnic, and diverse men and women between the ages of 18 and 35 who are affiliated with the MEEJR, its organizations, and its ventures. Indirectly, it will benefit 17,377 people, for a total of 20,826 beneficiaries.
Funded by the Italian Government through the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS):
National counterpart: National Planning Department of Colombia. Directorate of Sustainable Rural Development:
Main beneficiary the Mesa de Empleabilidad y Emprendimiento Juvenil Rural:
Funded by the Italian Government through the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS):
National counterpart: National Planning Department of Colombia. Directorate of Sustainable Rural Development:
Main beneficiary the Mesa de Empleabilidad y Emprendimiento Juvenil Rural:
