This week began the second phase of the program Stores for the Peoplewhich seeks to strengthen 5,700 neighborhood stores in the country affected by the covid-19 pandemic.
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In this phase, as announced by the general director of Social Prosperity, Pierre García Jacquier, there will be an investment of 14,820 million pesos, which will allow neighborhood stores located in 12 cities across the country.
The distribution will be: Bogotá (2,000 places), Cali (1,000), Cúcuta (500), Ibagué (500), Popayán (300), Pasto (300), Barranquilla (200), Quibdó (200), Bucaramanga (200), Guadalajara de Buga (200), Palmira (200) and Santa Marta (100).
“The service route includes five workshops and three visits, which for five months will monitor progress in strengthening and work on issues such as digital marketing, formalization, administration and management. With the delivery of inventories for 2 million pesos, made up of groceries, groceries and cleaning products, the stores will be capitalizedGarcia explained.
Valle del Cauca, Nariño and Cauca successfully completed the pre-registration days in February 2022. In Santander, Norte de Santander, Chocó and Magdalena, the shopkeepers participated in the process last Wednesday, this Friday in Atlántico and Tolima pre-registrations are held, and in Bogotá they will be held at the end of June.
Pre-registration requirements
Those who wish to apply to the program must pre-register in person at the conferences that will be enabled for each city. In these cases, they have to present themselves with their citizenship card.
In addition they must:
-Having a neighborhood store in operation, which sells products from the family basket (groceries, groceries, cleaning products, etc.), and residing in the targeted city.
-Be a Colombian citizen between 18 and 65 years old.
-Not being registered as “registered”, “linked”, “served” and/or “retired” in the Productive Inclusion programs of Social Prosperity (Families on their Land, Iraca, My Business, Collective Entrepreneurship, previous versions of Stores for la Gente), during the last four years, except for the participants of the Food Security Network (ReSA).
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Requirements to be selected
In these cases, Social Prosperityand requires:
– Belong to Sisben IV, and be classified in groups A (levels A01 to A05) or B (levels B01 to B07); or belong to Sisben III, and be within the scores from 0 to 41.74 (Area 1: main cities Cali and Pasto), from 0 to 45.47 (Area 2: urban rest, made up of the urban area different from the 14 main cities), or from 0 to 36.83 (Area 3: rural, made up of the scattered rural area). In the event that the potential participant has a score in both methodologies, the SISBEN IV information will prevail.
-Colombians victims of forced displacement registered in the Single Registry of RUV Victims, with status included and reported by the Special Administrative Unit for Comprehensive Care and Reparation of Victims (UARIV).
-Be part of a household linked to the UNIDOS Strategy, reported by the General Subdirectorate for Overcoming Poverty of Social Prosperity or another relevant entity.
It should be remembered that a maximum of one person per family nucleus will be eligible.
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