Evaluación de impacto de los cursos de capacitación impartidos en la escuela de formación en administración para productores de la economía popular y solidaria, periodo 2019

Abstract

The Popular and Solidarity Economy is an economic subsystem that has become one of the main components for the economic development of Ecuador. However, the lack of managerial capacities and skills has caused many of the organizations that belong to the Popular and Solidarity Economy do not manage to grow economically and do not allow its participants to achieve a better quality of life. Therefore there is a pressing need to generate managerial skills so that the participants of the Popular and Solidarity Economy achieve better productivity and competitiveness in organizations.

For this, the Escuela Politécnica Nacional, in alliance with the Institute of Popular and Solidarity Economy, implemented a management skills training program for the Popular and Solidarity Economy participants. This research work consists of evaluating the impact of the training courses given at the School of Management Training for producers of the Popular and Solidarity Economy, in the period 2019. The results indicate that training for EPS participants generated a positive impact, implying that the treatment group increased their management skills. Regarding knowledge on business topics, the impact evaluation gave a positive result.