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48% of women work in the informal sector without benefits.

15% of rural girls drop out of primary school every year.

5.2% of women may lack any form of identification—birth certificate or identity card—which excludes them from the system, i.e., access to education, health, justice, employment, and credit services, and limits their ability to exercise rights.

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Country Snapshot: Peru and Economic Growth

Photo of two women working. Caption Reads: These Cajamarca women enjoy greater incomes and increased community as a result of their work hancrafting gold chainsfor export. Here, final assembly is performed.
These Cajamarca women enjoy greater incomes and increased community roles as a result of their work hancrafting gold chains for export. Here, final assembly is performed.

USAID/Peru supports efforts to improve women's access to opportunities for economic growth..

Micro-finance

Micro-finance activities have served more than 160,000 clients with USAID's help in Peru. A significant portion of loans are helping to mitigate social conflict by facilitating self-employment opportunities for the poor and the very poor. As of the end of 2003, approximately 57 percent of loans were to clients borrowing less than $400, and 64 percent of all clients were women. USAID/Peru's microfinance activities are part of its 2002-2007 Poverty Reduction program, implemented with Chemonics, CARE, Catholic Relief Services (CRS), the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International (ADRA), and local partners.

Poverty Alleviation Project (PRA)

USAID provides business development and trade facilitation services to increase market access for goods produced by poor Peruvians. One of the most successful activities has generated new income opportunities for women from extremely poor areas in Cajamarca. Through the PRA, USAID and its partner Chemonics trained peri-urban women from Glass of Milk Committees (a government-sponsored feeding program) to handcraft gold rope chains that are exported to the U.S. Today, 750 women have formed 16 microenterprises and, working from their homes, have increased their incomes by 40 percent to 90 percent. As a result of their new employment and increased incomes, the women enjoy increased empowerment in their communities.

Peru Program Objectives

Health
Economic Growth
Education
Democracy & Governance
Human Rights
Trafficking in Persons

Selected Activities

Radionovelas
Micro-finance
Poverty Alleviation Project (PRA)
Opening Doors
Friendly Schools
Peru-Ecuador Border Development Project
Civil Society Consortium
Psychological Services to Victims of Torture
Human Rights Protection

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