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Role 4Provides technical assistance

Fundación CODESPA en el Perú

Promotes rural and circular economy ventures with technical assistance, prototypes that put agricultural waste to use, and credit through partner financial institutions such as Caja Huancayo, and connects them with buyer companies.

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01How it helps

How can CODESPA help your biobusiness?

What it offers

technical assistanceprototype incubationaccess to credit and financial servicesfinancial educationcommercial linkage

Who it serves
Individual entrepreneurs · Associations and cooperatives
Products
Plantain and banana, Peach, Trout, Alpaca fiber, Community ecotourism, Banana fiber, Coffee, Cacao, Amazonian fish farming (unspecified), Rice
Where it works
International reach: 13 countriesIn Peru, with documented projects or investments in: Cusco, Amazonas, Cajamarca

How do you access CODESPA?

Can you apply directly?
Yes, it serves biobusinesses directly.
Do you need a business that already operates?
It depends
How hard is it to access?
Demanding access
Do you pay or co-fund?
Partly free or with matching contribution
Is it repaid?
Partly repaid
Where does the money come from?
Philanthropic

Mapping classification: With funds from the «la Caixa» Foundation it created 17 ventures in Quispicanchi and Condorcanqui and connected them with credit from partner institutions, averaging EUR 3,000. It serves only the areas of its projects, hence high complexity; technical assistance is free, but the credit is repaid, hence partial.

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02Overlaps

Who does CODESPA overlap with?

Organizations in the map working on the same products in the same departments. It is not a declared relationship: it is an overlap in the data, useful to look for synergies.

03Sources

Sources and references

Dated public data behind this profile. What is published does not reflect everything an organization does.

  1. From January 2023 to December 2026 it runs a project to promote entrepreneurship and the circular economy among 1,200 vulnerable young people and women in San Ignacio, Jaén and Cutervo (Cajamarca) and Condorcanqui, Bagua and Utcubamba (Amazonas), using waste from the banana, coffee, fish and rice value chains. CODESPA: Promoviendo ecosistemas de emprendimiento y economía circular en Amazonas y Cajamarca

  2. With Caja Huancayo it promotes the FREES Fund, which makes formal credit available to rural producers in Amazonas and Cusco, combined with training and technical assistance. CODESPA: La cultura tributaria fortalece los emprendimientos rurales de Perú

  3. With funding from AECID, its circular economy projects (Peru, Morocco and Ecuador) bring together more than 900 entrepreneurs in 60 initiatives; in Condorcanqui they turn cacao pod placenta into flour and banana pseudostem into biotextiles and crafts, with a Circular Fund managed by the Norandino cooperative. CODESPA: Economía circular y empleo rural en Perú, Marruecos y Ecuador

  4. Ran the Work4Progress project, a program of the «la Caixa» Foundation, in Quispicanchi (Cusco) and Condorcanqui (Amazonas): phase 1 (2020-2022) and phase 2 (2022-2024), «Scaling innovative inclusive business prototypes and strengthening financial services», with NESsT, ONG Alternativa, Universidad Nacional de Jaén and Caja Huancayo as phase 2 partners. CODESPA: Promoción del emprendimiento rural. La experiencia de CODESPA en el programa Work4Progress de Fundación «la Caixa» en Perú

  5. Program results: 17 ventures created, 1,550 entrepreneurs with access to financial products and services, an average credit of EUR 3,000 per venture and 7 commercial agreements with companies. CODESPA: Promoción del emprendimiento rural. La experiencia de CODESPA en el programa Work4Progress de Fundación «la Caixa» en Perú

Other sources consulted: Fundación «la Caixa»: Young people in the Amazon turn banana surpluses into jobs and sustainability (Dec 12, 2024)