BGE GuyaneWho are we?

What do we do?Any best pratice?

SUSIPE Grundtvig Partnership March 2014Spokesman: Julien VALETTE

… But first thing first: where are we ?

Map keySiège de la Boutique de Gestion Activité Conseil

Cayenne

Antennes de la Boutique de Gestion Activité Conseil

Kourou

St Laurent du Maroni

St Georges

Lieux de permanences ponctuelles

Rémire-Montjoly

Mana

Maripasoula

Awala-Yalimapo

Zones d’intervention habituelle de la Boutique de Gestion de Guyane

• The only Europan region in South America

• Roughly 90 000 km² : same as Portugal

• 250’000 inhabitants all by the coastline, the rest is rain forest.

• A very young population: more than 50% of which is less than 26

years old.

• Dramatically expanding demographics: depending on the area,

population has multiplied by 5 to 9 in 50 years.

• Rough social and economical context: high unemployment (3 times

higher than in mainland France), uncontroled inmigration, violence,

unproper housing, etc.

• Higher percentage of people attracted by small-scale

entrepreneurship

French Guiana in short :

• An association created in 1996

• Part of a wide national network

• 27 employees

• 4 branches :

1. Job Market Integration

2. Entrepreneurship

3. Vocational Training

4. Local Development Consultancy

BGE in short :

BGE Guyane helps people defining a professional project for

themselves and provides guidance throughout the completion of it.

It strongly relates to empowering people with the lowest chances,

including long-term unemployed people.

We help them finding a job as well as solving other personal issues

related to social exclusion.

Our activities :

Job Market Integration

Our activities focus on the definition of a business project, mainly as

a mean to become self-employed.

We provide guidance throughout the completion of it.

The target group is vastly composed of unemployed people with

low levels of education, few professional achievements and neither

background nor experience in business.

Our activities :

Entrepreneurship

Our target groups for Vocational Training are migrants as well as the

local people with very basic educational background.

We aim at strengthening their language skill so that they can better

write, speak, and express themselves.

We focus on key technical words required as part as their individual

professional project, and the wider process of integration through

work.

Our activities :

Vocational Training

Local Development Consultancy is all about strengthening the

development projects that take place in our region, whether

economic, social or environmental (and more likely all domains

combined).

These are often multi-partners projects for which we can provide

coordination, by building bridges with the key players and institutions

we deal with in our three other branches.

Our activities :

Local Development Consultancy