THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (IOC)
Driving Institution
It is an independent, international non-profit organization committed to building a better world through sports. Created on June 23rd, 1894, just under two years before the first Olympic Games of the Modern Era, in April 1896, the IOC is the supreme authority of the Olympic Movement. Olympism is a philosophy of life that exalts and brings together in a harmonious and balanced whole all the qualities of the body, will, and mind. This philosophy seeks to create a way of life, based on the joy of effort, the educational value of a good example, social responsibility, and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles by combining sports with culture and education. The visual ambassador of Olympism is the Olympic symbol (the Olympic rings). Its core values are excellence, respect, and friendship. The IOC has 206 National Olympic Committees whose mission, per the Olympic Charter, is to develop, promote and protect the Olympic Movement in their respective countries.
BID LAB
Driving Institution
IDB Lab is the innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank Group. It mobilizes financing, knowledge, and connections to catalyze innovation for inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean. It wields innovation as a powerful tool that can transform the region, providing today unprecedented opportunities to populations in vulnerable situations due to economic, social, and environmental conditions.
The Group is the main source of financing for the development of Latin America and the Caribbean; it helps to improve lives by providing financial solutions and development knowledge to clients both in the public and private sectors. It is made up of the IDB, which generates impact mainly through its work with governments over more than 60 years; IDB Invest, which works with the private sector, and IDB Lab, which does so through different conceptions of innovation.
Fundación SES
Executing Organization
It was founded in Argentina in 1999 and its main objective is to work on the promotion and restitution of youth rights, especially promoting their social, educational, economic, labor and civic inclusion, taking into account their trajectories and their contexts. Fundación SES has the technical capacity to develop programs and methodologies on a scale, as well as the political capacity to promote the dialogue with other social organizations, States, productive sectors, trade unions, and other institutions in Argentina, Latin America, and Europe to achieve impact on public policies regarding the rights of youth.
Microenterprises in Colombia
Local partner organization
Since its creation in 1970, Microempresas de Colombia has contributed to the consolidation of the culture of entrepreneurship and the competitiveness of entrepreneurs, both in Antioquia and in other departments of the country. It has a comprehensive care model that combines financial services as important as the credit for the creation and strengthening of productive units and savings, offered by the Savings and Credit Cooperative; and non-financial services from the Corporation for the Development of Microenterprises in Colombia, such as financial education, training, advice, and support.
Its objective is to contribute to the reduction of poverty and inequality rates, promote the creation of companies and the strengthening of existing ones, and make the dreams of thousands of people come true.
It works in urban and rural areas with groups of entrepreneurs, businessmen, people in vulnerable conditions, indigenous communities, Afro communities, children, youth, and displaced people, among others.
Esquel Foundation
Local partner organization
It is an Ecuadorian organization with 30 years of experience that creates opportunities for Ecuadorians through spaces for dialogue, social innovation, and capacity building to jointly build a supportive, democratic and sustainable country. Its main lines of work include participation, dialogue and advocacy, capacity building, gender and diversity, resilient and sustainable communities.
Due to its management capacity, transparency, and knowledge of the local context, it has received the trust of numerous international cooperation organizations and governments in America and Europe
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