Obstacles of the artisans of Escárcega and Calkiní that limit the Social and Solidarity Economy

Abstract

The craft sector represents an important part of the culture, identity and economy of any locality. The solidarity economy allows women not only to be included to generate their own income, it also allows the integration of groups to establish strategic alliances, achieving their financial independence and being able to make their own decisions, benefiting themselves, but at the same time the community at large. economic, social and environmental sphere. The purpose of this work is to identify the obstacles that artisan women currently present and that have limited the implementation of Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) practices; from the towns of Escárcega and Calkiní in the State of Campeche. The methodology has a qualitative descriptive approach, the type of sample is for convenience, access was had with 18 artisans of legal age belonging to the towns of Escárcega and Calkiní in the state of Campeche, data collection was carried out through the application of a questionnaire with the interview technique. As part of the results, 15 obstacles were identified, of which the most common are: time, limited economic resources, gender identity, limited government support, and lack of knowledge of administrative issues that are related to the human and social dimensions. , economic, technological, political, environmental of the social and solidarity economy. Knowing what prevents artisans from having business growth and development with the SSE model will allow them to generate actions to strengthen practices in their businesses.