Fundación Capital promotes sustained public policy strategies for poverty reduction based on the generation of assets, employment and access to financial services
Fundación Capital is a regional non-profit organization dedicated to reducing poverty through the management, design, and implementation of innovative projects that create the conditions necessary for individuals and families with few resources to construct, improve, and accumulate all kinds of assets:
human assets, through access to health and education services;
physical assets, with instruments that facilitate access to housing, land, production tools, and more;
social assets, by empowering social capital;
financial assets, by providing access to the formal financial system.
Experience shows that access to formal financial services – such as savings accounts, insurances, transfers, and low-cost payment methods - facilitate and empower the construction of human, physical, and social assets; to that end, Fundación Capital places special emphasis on financial inclusion as the motor of development.
Fundación Capital:
Advises and accompanies regional governments in improving public policies and/or private initiatives that facilitate the generation, growth, and improvement of assets for low-income families
Guides the design of instruments that provide poor households with secure places to deposit their savings; Fundación Capital promotes financial education and savings incentives (monetary and psychological), designs savings products adjusted to the needs of low-income households, and promotes regulations that favor large-scale financial inclusion.
Designs policies and instruments that respond to the demands and needs of low-income families, seeking in particular solutions apart from microcredit
Places emphasis on projects that generate lasting impacts and can be replicated on a massive scale
Studies and disseminates new ideas and practices
Fundación Capital began its activities in 2007 and works throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
RECENT PROJECTS Assets & Connections Turning remittances into savings and enterprise Colombia LISTA Achieving Inclusion through Technology and Savings Little BIG Money Microinvestment platform for social development The Capital Project Large scale initiatives; reaching millions The Graduation... A permanent exit from extreme poverty
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CONTACT
+507 282-7447
Location
Torre de las Americas, Torre B, Piso 15
PO Box 0832-00155 WTC
Punta Pacifica, Panamá
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