CONAMYPE: 12 years at the service of MYPEs

Last March 19^th more than 100 people attended the 12^th anniversary National Confederation of Micro and Small enterprises (CONAMYPE) in La Paz. At the event, open to the public, many of the achievements attained during last 12 years were highlighted: CONAMYPE organized 49 seminaries associated with the sector, strengthened 108 institutional relations and carried out 20 accountability audits/hearings.

Furthermore, the event presented the “Institutional strengthening of CONAMYPE to set the basis for exporting associativism” project, implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through European Union funds, within the framework of the Support Program Growth Promotion and Export Diversification (PROEX). As part of the said process, computer equipment was delivered in order to make part of the information centers that will implement CONAMYPE, as well as each of the Federal Departments.

CONAMYPE brings together relations in the entire country: leather, textile, food, services, etc...; recognition of the organization was achieved through Articles 3:18, 3:30 and 3:34. The MYPEs sector is one of the driving forces that propels Bolivia, as they represent 94% of all Bolivian enterprises. These invest more than $2 billion in the country and create more than 2 million employment opportunities.

Claudio Providas, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative in Bolivia, highlighted the importance of MYPEs in the development of Bolivia and the public-private dialogue: 

“We hope that the contribution of the private sector, along with the public sector, will be more equitable. We hope that bad quality employment will become of better quality. To this end you have to be better informed about what this project deals with and become a more important power in the development of national plans.”

Luis Baudoin, Vice Minister of Trade and Exports, spoke very clearly: “strengthening CANAMYPE means really strengthening the sector.” Additionally, Vice Minister Baudoin, as sponsor of the support that UNDP is bringing about to CANEMYPE, emphasized the quality of the technical equipment and the great importance of counting on the support of UNDP with its Art Program.

Martín Bazurco stressed the importance of MYPEs' effort, which “continued producing when capital was seeking to leave the country. The micro-entrepreneurs took to the streets with the people and ensured that the people had clothes, food and furniture...”. He placed MYPEs in the center of the economic motor for Bolivia's future: “We cannot imagine the future of Bolivia where living well is the norm, and there is no production. It is here that MYPEs have an indispensable role”. To this, he emphasized the support of a CONAMYPE that must be capable of generating proposals at every level, and looks after the wellbeing of the Bolivian economy.

Centers of productive innovation of support services geared towards production are currently being built; providing access to equipment that individual producers wouldn't be able to purchase. UNDP has donated computer equipment that will be available to use by the partner MYPEs. 

 

SOURCE: UNDP BOLIVIA

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