Outcome BOL_D_2.2

More Bolivian women, especially rural and indigenous women, have access to productive resources and assets, including access to renewable energy.

655 women strengthened their capacities in financial literacy, business management and soft skills 300 own-account women workers strengthened their capacities in financial management, knowledge on the requirements to access financial services, and soft skills (in leadership, communications, etc.) and 355 women entrepreneurs and businesswomen strengthened capacities in financial and business management. Regarding the strengthening of capacities of 300 own-account women workers, the process was included in the framework of the Joint Programme "Mitigating socioeconomic impact of COVID19 on employment and income of own-account women workers in the informal economy". Our responsible party, ACOBOL, organized training sessions, mostly in El Alto and La Paz, for 300 own-account women workers to strengthen their capacities in financial management and soft skills. In total, 563 own-account women workers in the informal economy strengthened their capacities in financial management and soft skills during the programme that started in 2021 and ended in March 2022. Many of them were indigenous and with low education level (around primary school). 43.52% of them were women under 35 years. Regarding the strengthening of capacities of 355 women entrepreneurs and businesswomen, it was held as part of a consultancy in the cities of La Paz, El Alto, Cochabamba, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Tarija and Cobija. The results after the trainings showed this process was important and generated solidarity networks between women entrepreneurs and businesswomen. Finally, regarding access to services, to improve women's financial inclusion, an agenda to generate conditions and development of financial products and tools tailored to the needs of women was consolidated by UN Women and shared with 400 people, including key actors from the government, financial sector and women entrepreneurs and businesswomen’s organizations; and 146 people from 13 financial institutions strengthened their knowledge on how to mainstream gender in financial services and products.

More Bolivian women, especially rural and indigenous women, have access to productive resources and assets, including access to renewable energy.

Significant progress has been made, in spite of the difficult context derived from the socioeconomic impacts produced by COVID-19. One of the main achievements was progress towards the generation of conditions to improve the access of women to financial services and products through the development of data and information in the framework of the project “Analysis of financial services through a gender focus”. Three diagnosis studies were developed, including one with a proposal to change the Law for financial services and measures to build a policy to improve the access of women to financial services and products, that was shared with relevant authorities. Another progress is the mitigation of the socioeconomic impact of COVID-19 on own account women workers through the implementation of a JP led by ILO, with the participation of UNDP. UN Women directly contributed to develop the knowledge of beneficiaries to improve their situation: 263 own-account women workers have increased their knowledge in soft skills (leadership, communications, strategic alliances), women’s human rights and financial education through 4 trainings in La Paz, El Alto, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz. UN Women also developed the knowledge of local authorities in order for them to take the right measures, with 798 elected members from local governments who have increased their knowledge on the care economy with a focus on the situation of own-account women workers, through 14 events in 7 departments. A major difficulty was the pandemic and socioeconomic crisis that caused delays in some results but showed the need to carry on with the activities that were developed during the reporting period in 2022.