Jorge Andres Arce Correa

His Impact business El Patio is a neighbourhood Think Tank that facilitates social innovation. During his stay as an ISA fellow, Jorge plans to develop an operational framework for founding a sister NGO combining participatory action research, mixed research methods, and tools from startup entrepreneurship to promote cooperation to address urgent socioeconomic issues in the rural area. Additionally, he will be working on two initiatives: the sustainable rural art biennial and strengthening business framework, prioritizing women’s engagement and support to local producers.

His idea is to bring collaboration where is most needed. Therefore, he aims to work with the most vulnerable rural communities, especially schools, farmers, and artisans located outside of the urban area of the towns surrounding the city of Neiva. The NGOs´ approach will be based on working closely with the communities and local leaders in the first place, and secondly, to enable solutions by bringing tools, viable technical contributions, and a budgeting structure (this includes organizing valuable tactical information and test budgets). Jorge will be addressing SDG 1 – no poverty, and SDG 4 – Quality education.