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access to savings and credits, training and financial services. The emphasis on these programs has centered on organizations of small producers, to build up solidarity among them and their capacity for negotiating with others. They have also promoted alliances with business sectors with corporate social responsibility initiatives.
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In addition, CARE has also allowed producer families to gain access to credit to assist them in increasing production and gaining access to markets. 50% of this grant will be used to serve as finance cost to these farmers as loans while the rest will finance the cost of linking them to markets. In
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Programs have been put in place to achieve their mission. Small
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Between 2005 and 2010, CARE worked with 58,570 households in the poorest and most excluded highland regions of the country, contributing to reduce the percentage of the population living with less than US$ 1 per day from 84% to 63%. Statistic from
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of 1,000 cocoa producers. They will be assisted by strengthening their productivity through management and technical skills. 266 jobs will be created for this project and 199 after the project excluding the 120 technical assistance jobs.
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for the poor is the access to credit in line with their characteristics and capacity. In 1998, CARE Peru assisted with the establishment of EDYFICAR, a financial entity to provide financial services to low-income sectors. In 2007, the
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demonstrated that small farmers with less than 3 hectares of land could be linked to existing markets, and therefore should be included in the compensation program that the government established after signing the
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showed that the percentage of poor Peru has dropped from 54.8% in 2001 to 31.3% in 2010 and
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