The training and professionalization of the administrative and financial management of work cooperatives that serve children and adolescents are the objectives of the agreement between the Institute for Children and Adolescents of Uruguay (INAU) and the National Institute of Cooperativism (Inacoop). Pablo Abdala and Martín Fernández, authorities of these organizations, highlighted early childhood work as a state policy.
The presidents of INAU, Pablo Abdala, and Inacoop, Martín Fernández, signed this Tuesday the 14th a framework agreement for the training, support and accompaniment of new organizations, in order to provide tools that facilitate the management of childhood centers and adolescence.
Abdala stressed that the tool will be made available to social institutions with agreements signed with the INAU, or in the process of doing so, in the various assistance options for children and adolescents, such as child and family care centers (CAIF) , kids clubs and youth centers.
The hierarch considered that the instrument presented will allow cooperative members to be trained and professionalized in administrative and financial management, as well as in facilities for access to credit, in addition to training for INAU officials.
“It is a recent phenomenon that work cooperatives are involved in the management of socio-educational projects, and the INAU has dozens of labor agreements that serve children and adolescents,” he analyzed.
Fernandez, meanwhile, pointed out that the strengthening of management in each social organization is one of the main axes of Inacoop. In this sense, he indicated that training in different areas will enable the institute to join forces and be increasingly involved in one of the State policies promoted by the Government: inter-institutional work in early childhood.
