| SE strategy / action plan 1.2.1 S10S20S30S40S50 Criteria and evidence- S1 · Status: 0 (none)
No national SE, SSE or cooperative strategy or plan, adopted or announced, was found; 2024-2025 government action on cooperatives concerned INCOOP's supervisory capacity and financial inclusion, and the ICA's 2019 legal analysis found no national cooperative policy or plan: 'none'. · source 1 - S2 · Dedication: 0 (SE absent from adopted national strategies)
No adopted national strategy mentioning SE or cooperatives was found: the STP's harmonisation of the Plan Nacional de Desarrollo Paraguay 2030 targets with the SDGs (Oct 2016) contains no 'cooperativa', 'cooperativismo', 'economía social', 'economía solidaria' or 'empresas sociales' (only a financial-inclusion target on 'programas de crédito, ahorro y ayuda solidaria'); the national financial-inclusion strategy 2026-2031 was presented only in August 2026: 'SE absent from adopted national strategies'. Full PND text not opened. · source 1 - S3 · Operational content: 0 (no adopted instrument)
No instrument: 'no adopted instrument'. · source 1 - S4 · Monitoring: 0 (none)
No instrument to monitor: 'none'. · source 1 - S5 · Participation of SE organisations: 0 (no evidence)
No instrument, hence 'no evidence' of SE participation. · source 1
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| Institutional structure & dialogue 1.2.2 I1100I233I30I433 Criteria and evidence- I1 · Lead responsibility: 100 (a dedicated unit, directorate or agency for SE)
The Instituto Nacional de Cooperativismo (INCOOP, Ley 2157/2003) is an autonomous public body that is the enforcement and control authority for cooperatives and formulates 'proyectos, planes y programas que tiendan al fortalecimiento y difusión del cooperativismo' (Art. 5 b): 'a dedicated unit, directorate or agency for SE' (for one type, see I2). · source 1 - I2 · Breadth of mandate: 33 (one type only (e.g. a cooperatives regulator))
INCOOP's mandate covers cooperatives only (Ley 438/94, Ley 6841/2021 on worker cooperatives): 'one type only (e.g. a cooperatives regulator)'. · source 1 - I3 · Consultative body with SE organisations: 0 (none, or only in a draft)
Ley 2157 sets no consultative council (the former Consejo Asesor appears only in transitional articles); cooperative-sector members sit on INCOOP's governing Consejo Directivo, elected in sectoral assemblies, which is not a consultative body: 'none'. · source 1 - I4 · Inter-ministerial coordination: 33 (foreseen in an adopted text)
Ley 2157/2003 Art. 5 b gives INCOOP the function of coordinating the policies of other state bodies that apply to the cooperative field; the only 2024-2025 coordination found is a single MEF-Conpacoop meeting on strengthening INCOOP (5 Apr 2024), with no 'mesa de trabajo, committee, or commission': 'foreseen in an adopted text'. · source 1
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| Social clauses in public procurement 2.3.2 P167P267P333P467 Criteria and evidence- P1 · Legal basis: 67 (contracts reservable for a subset (sheltered workshops, WISE, disadvantaged workers; Directive 2014/24 Art. 20) or preferences for cooperatives/SMEs that include SE)
Ley 7021/2022 creates a 'Contratación Inclusiva' procedure that can be limited to MIPYMES, 'organizaciones de la comunidad' or 'otros grupos de interés vulnerables' (Art. 35 c) and a 20% annual MIPYME market reserve (Art. 27); cooperatives are not named, and Ley 6841/2021 Art. 5 makes worker cooperatives bid on equal terms: 'contracts reservable for a subset ... or preferences for cooperatives/SMEs that include SE'. · source 1 - P2 · National policy push: 67 (national socially responsible procurement guidance or plan)
The DNCP has a Política de Compras Públicas Sostenibles covering 'criterios sociales, ambientales y económicos' at all stages, an action plan running to 2027 (levels 2021-2027), priority categories (food, furniture, building maintenance, cleaning, textiles) and a Guía Práctica de Compras Públicas Sostenibles (DNCP management report 2018-2023); Ley 7021/2022 Art. 38 provides for sustainable procurement including 'grupos de población específicos'. No target or quota for social clauses was found: 'national socially responsible procurement guidance or plan'. Judgement call: Decreto 3.899 (May 2025) obliges Hambre Cero school-feeding contractors to buy 10% from 'la agricultura familiar campesina' and 5% from MIPYMEs; read as a supplier-category sourcing share (like an SME preference, and as family-farming quotas were treated for Brazil), not as a social-clause quota; 100 if counted. · source 1 - P3 · Evidence of use: 33 (individual cases reported)
No national figures on social criteria, inclusive contracting or reserved procedures were found (the DNCP 2018-2023 report and its sustainable-procurement presentation give none); case-level evidence exists: Maká indigenous products were activated in the DNCP Tienda Virtual (the Hambre Cero family-farming business round of June 2025 is not counted, see P2): 'individual cases reported'. · source 1 - P4 · Capacity support: 67 (a government training programme or helpdesk documented to cover social clauses or reserved contracts, for contracting authorities or for SEs)
The DNCP reports a 'Programa de Capacitación en Compras Públicas Sostenibles' for actors in the procurement process and sustainability training for suppliers, officials and citizens, under a policy defined by social, environmental and economic criteria (management report 2018-2023, published Jan 2024); no training aimed at SEs was found: 'a national (government) training programme ... documented to cover social clauses ... for contracting authorities'. Dates and participant numbers are not given. · source 1
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| Official SE definition 3.1 D10D20 Criteria and evidence- D1 · Where defined: 0 (nowhere (a lapsed draft counts as nowhere))
No legal or policy definition of SE or the social economy; laws define cooperatives only (Ley 438/94; Ley 6841/2021 Art. 2): 'nowhere'. · source 1 - D2 · Content (social aim; participatory governance; limits on profit distribution): 0 (none of the three, or no definition)
No definition counted in D1: 'no definition'. · source 1
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Legal recognition of SEs 3.2.1 · level 0 of 3None (no SE, social-cooperative or SSE law or bill); cooperatives under Ley 438/94 (amended by Ley 5501/15) and Ley 6841/2021 on worker cooperatives are general cooperative law · source 1L10L20L30L40L50 Criteria and evidence- L1 · Adoption stage: 0 (none, announced, or consultation draft)
- L2 · Scope: 0 (none)
- L3 · Implementing rules: 0 (none adopted, or law not in force)
- L4 · Status or register: 0 (foreseen with no entity recognised, or law not in force)
- L5 · Bodies foreseen by the law: 0 (foreseen, not set up, or law not in force)
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| SE support ecosystem 4.3.6 E10E20E30E40E50 Criteria and evidence- E1 · National programme: 0 (none)
No national business-development programme for cooperatives or SE was found in three searches (INCOOP programmes, training, MIC); INCOOP's 2024-2025 public activity concerns supervision and its strengthening, and the ICA legal analysis (2019) found no national cooperative policy or plan; Coopemypes (Dec 2025) is an MSME credit and training programme of the MIC channelled through cooperatives: 'none'. Absence-based. · source 1 · low confidence - E2 · Territorial coverage: 0 (none)
No national programme (see E1), so no coverage: 'none'. · source 1 · low confidence - E3 · Public funding of support: 0 (none)
No national programme to fund (see E1): 'none'. · source 1 · low confidence - E4 · Continuity: 0 (none)
No national programme operating (see E1): 'none'. · source 1 · low confidence - E5 · Range of services: 0 (none)
No programme description to assess (see E1): 'none'. · source 1 · low confidence
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| EU funds mobilised for SE 5.1.1 F133F20F30F40 Criteria and evidence- F1 · Programming: 33 (SE mentioned)
The EU Multiannual Indicative Programme 2021-2027 for Paraguay names 'las cooperativas, por su papel clave en la promoción de la igualdad' as a possible focus of civil-society support measures, with no priority, target or earmarked budget: 'SE mentioned'. · source 1 - F2 · Calls and instruments: 0 (none)
No EU call naming the social economy and no SE grantee was found: the We Effect project 'Peasant welfare with equal rights' (2018-2022, EUR 82,122) is not shown as EU-funded (only the Cooperatives Europe website is EU co-funded), and the EU-funded Ñañua Paraguay climate-resilience project strengthens CSOs in 'modelos asociativos y económicos' with 14 producer organisations, not SE grantees: 'none'. · source 1 - F3 · Channel: 0 (none)
No EU funding for SE identified (see F2), hence no channel: 'none'. · source 1 - F4 · Evidence of take-up: 0 (none)
No take-up of EU funds by SEs found (see F2): 'none'. · source 1
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| Dedicated national funding 5.2.2 N133N20N30N40 Criteria and evidence- N1 · Dedicated line: 33 (only general SME/employment programmes open to SE)
COOPEMYPES, launched by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce on 2 Dec 2025 with the AFD and Taiwan's ICDF (up to USD 9 m), aims to 'apuntalar el crecimiento de las mipymes': 12 savings-and-credit cooperatives on-lend to MSMEs (over 2,500 credits projected for 2026), and the vice-minister calls cooperatives a 'canal fundamental para extender el alcance de la banca de segundo piso'. Its purpose is MSME finance with cooperatives as intermediaries, not SE or cooperative development; no other national line for SE or cooperatives was found: 'only general SME/employment programmes open to SE'. · source 1 - N2 · Instrument types: 0 (none)
N1 = 33, so 'none, or N1 ≤ 33' (codebook rule). COOPEMYPES offers loans (up to G. 350 m) plus technical assistance and training. · source 1 - N3 · Continuity: 0 (none)
N1 = 33, so 'none, or N1 ≤ 33' (codebook rule; COOPEMYPES first launched in December 2025). · source 1 - N4 · Execution: 0 (no evidence)
N1 = 33, so 'no evidence, or N1 ≤ 33' (codebook rule; credits were projected for 2026). · source 1
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