Fondazione Risorsa Donna


Andrea NARDONE

Via di Santa Balbina, 6
00153 Rome - Italy
Tel: ++39 - 06 57 28 9655
Fax: ++39 - 06 57 45 506
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www.fondazionerisorsadonna.it

Fondazione Risorsa Donna is a not-for-profit organisation (NGO), founded in Rome in 2001 from the multi-annual experience of the Italian Association of Women’s World Banking. Risorsa Donna Foundation belongs to a wide range of circuit organisations and national and International networks. The Foundation is accredited under the Lazio Region as a training body for the “continuous training” macro typology.
 
The Foundation is the result of the efforts aimed at boosting and supporting the role of women as social and family driving force. The aim of the Foundation is particularly focused on those women who, due to economic or social reasons, are excluded from the market development, by giving them the instruments and opportunities to access, given their particular living conditions, money, information, technologies and markets. Microcredit is the main activity of Risorsa Donna Foundation. It promotes and carries out, in partnership with private and public bodies, training courses aimed at women. Risorsa Donna Foundation manages Special Projects on the design of activities to promote the economic and social development of women.
 
Special projects are: The management of the Centre for immigrants’ enterprises of the Province of Rome; Risors@Europa; Social Innovation Village; Women and media in Europe; “Integrated Services for the development of the female economy” promoted by Bic (Business innovation centre) Lazio, Axes E, Measure 1 of ESF (2008); “PAGE – Public Administration and Gender”promoted by Sviluppo Lazio, Axes D, Measure 2 of ESF; “Credit to woman”financed by Lazio Region, Department for Equal Opportunities, Labour and Young Policies; “PODI – Percorsi di Opportunità per le Donne Immigrate; Orientamento, inclusione sociale e imprenditorialità (Paths and Opportunities for Immigrated Women; “A mi lado” financed by Lazio Region, Department for Equal Opportunities, Labour and Youg Policies; “Start up!” financed by the Ministry of Social Affairs with the European Fund for Integration of the nationals of Third Countries; “Mediare” co-financed by the EU and the Ministry of the Interior.
 
Research activities
Past and present research activities carried out by FRD in the field of microcredit and microfinance include, among others, the following: “A study on social microcredit in Italy” (2002); “Women and microfinance: a new way to develop female entrepreneurship?” (2005); “The European Microfinance Network Survey 2006/07: the Italian Initiative”(2008); “Access to credit for women in Latium and Italy: a state-of-the-art report” (2008); “Women and microfinance: the situation in Mediterranean countries” by Marcella Corsi, published by Aracne, (2008).
 
The microcredit programme
The microcredit programme was started in October 2003 in collaboration with the Foundation San Paolo di Torino, in order to support disadvantaged people. The target group of the microcredit programme is women and immigrant women with a regular residence permit living in the Latium Region who want to improve their activities or to attend training courses in order to increase their employment opportunities.