C/ Duque de Sevilla nº 3
28002 Madrid
Spain
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Vives project is the employment and entrepreneurship strategy of Action against Hunger, Its objective is to facilitate the access to the professional world for people at social and labour exclusion risk by employment and entrepreneurship programs. This strategy is based on the following theory of change: The acquisition of entrepreneurial abilities has a positive impact on improving the employability of people. When these people are also at risk of exclusion, the acquisition of these skills also has a direct impact on their life. This strategy is defined by three strategic axes: 1. To support and accompany unemployed people who are at risk of exclusion to improve their employability, through the acquisition of the skills needed to gain employment and to be entrepreneurial. The programs that will be implemented under this axis should pay special attention to the group of unemployed youngsters who are at risk. 2. Strengthening the entities of the Third Sector of Social Action that support and work to promote the entrepreneurial spirit and this inclusive entrepreneurship for groups at risk of exclusion. 3. The strengthening of the ecosystem of entrepreneurship to make it more inclusive for people at risk of exclusion.
Our projects are focused in the socio-labour inclusion of disadvantaged gropus through employment and entrepreneurship projects.
In 2014 we have run 25 projects, 19 of them still implementing and the rest finished during the first part of 2015. The total number of beneficiaries of our projects is more than 2600.
The activities are the following:
• 18 employment programs.
• 5 projects on entrepreneurship for youth at risk.
• 1 project on micro-financing to women.
• 3 projects on social entrepreneurship for NGO that will generate employment.
• 1 research on market niches for the youth entrepreneurship.
In 2015 we started to work in social action interventions in development countries. We are transferring the methodology of the Employment shuttles (Vives People), to the project "Livelihood Initiatives to foster employability and entrepreneurship of IDPs (Internal Displaced Persons) and host populations in Georgia - LIFE Georgia", funded by the Development and Cooperation - EuropeAid Directorate-General of the European Commission.
We want to establish strong and long-term alliances with other public and private entities working in the field of social inclusion of disadvantaged groups.
We are open to share our methodologies as well as work in consortiums with other organizations.
As the aim of one of our axis of interventions is the strehgthen of other NGOs offering entrepreneurship support, we will offer our services to other members of the network, and we will invite the rest to the events we organize.
ALF will give us further opportunities to contribute to a more inclusive ecosystem for people at risk of exclusion, in Spain but also in other countries where we have interventions with people at social risk.
The network will give us more visibility and we will have the opportunity to disseminate our events to other organizations.
We want also to contribute to a more inclusive European Ecosystem, so we are open to collaborate with other organizations in other countries with the aim of exchange our experiences, to learn from others and innovate in our interventions. This network would be a good oportunity to contact other organizations with the same objectives, and will give us the opportunity to establish long-term alliances at European and International level.