With information from Miguel Calderón
Of the 416,190 artisans registered in the Permanent National Employment Survey (EPEN), only 62,583 are registered in the National Registry of Artisans (RNA) of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (Mincetur) and, of them, more than 62% are informal.
Rusbel Hernández, director of Artisanal Development of Mincetur, adds that around 60% of artisans are dedicated to the activity on a stationary basis. In that sense, he affirms that formalization is a long process for this type of productive units because they are actually family units.
These identified family units are found mostly in dispersed rural areas, where the population dedicates themselves to crafts as a complementary activity, shared with livestock or agribusiness tasks. Crafts, then, become an opportunity for economic development for families, who become part of the production chains.
“The conditions for formalization are homogeneous for any sector. In fact, through the registry, the only thing we do is identify them, with the purpose of being able to first characterize them, and then promote their incorporation into the market access process,” says Hernández.
Along these lines, he explains that contests such as “We Are Crafts” appear as a strategy that allows an approach to economic dynamics, promoting production centers. The fund allocated for this contest will be delivered in 2 types of subsidy: S/16,000 for the tourism-crafts articulation model and S/4,500 for the development of productive business units.
Source: Larepublica
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