Crea: What we do.
CREA trains and advises low-income women to strengthen and grow their businesses, generate employment, and open new distribution channels for their products.
Mission:
CREA generates employment opportunities in rural communities among marginalized populations.
Vision:
CREA supports women entrepreneurs to believe in themselves and their work, to manage successful business, and in this way to improve their own income and standard of living.
Logic model:
CREA promotes the comprehensive personal development of women as decision makers and successful businesswomen that are leaders in their homes and communities.
Values:
- Innovative Programs
Our programs are transformational and scalable that are replicable at national and international scale.
- Leadership and Transparency
We are transparent in how we manage our resources and develop our programs
We engage in constant monitoring and evaluation
We report our results and indicators, good and bad
We offer sustainable high impact solutions
- Community Learning
We develop flexible, local strategies that make an impact.
- Our beneficiaries are co-responsible and participate directly in our work.
Our beneficiaries help us to continue to refine and customize programs to meet their needs
Our success depends on the work of the women with whom we work – we don’t provide handouts or charity.
- Democracy as an organizing principle
All of our stakeholders participate in collective decision making processes.
- Participatory Leadership
We make use of and strengthen the existing infrastructure and create alliances to actively address inequities.
- Self-Direction
We create autonomy by building communities.
We measure our work in reference to its impact on the collective wellbeing.
