Peru

The heart of any entrepreneurial ecosystem is the community of entrepreneurs themselves. The Swiss Entrepreneurship Program (Swiss EP) has incorporated this belief and supports building local startup communities bottom up by working with ecosystem leaders and builders since 2015. We do this by working with selected startup support organizations...

The Construya project addresses the challenges of unsafe, informal housing in rapidly urbanizing cities of Latin America by promoting safe, sustainable construction practices and affordable training for construction workers. In its current phase, the focus is on empowering local market system actors—such as training institutions and private companies—to fully take ownership of key services and tools developed by the project, including the training-of-trainers model and structured collaboration between companies and training providers. By anchoring these elements within national systems and strengthening the capacity of local actors, the initiative aims to ensure long-term sustainability and systemic impact in improving construction quality for low-income communities.

Stakeholders at national and local level collaboratively address priority urban mobility issues within the framework of the National Urban Transport Policy and under the stewardship of the Transport and the Housing Ministries. As a result, economic growth, socioeconomic inclusion and positive environmental effects are promoted due to the improved quality of Peru’s urban mobility.