Nitlapan is an institute specializing in research on and the creation and publicizing of new local rural and urban development models and methodologies. Nitlapan promotes concrete local development initiatives by providing a set of financial and non-financial services to micro, small and medium rural and urban businesses, especially those of women and young people. It does this within ongoing analysis, systematization and validation of all local experiences that yielded successful results and could be replicated in other territories or converted into inputs for the design of development policies in alliance with state institutions, civil society organizations, the private business sector and international development cooperation agencies. Nitlapan is part of the Central American University (UCA) in Managua, Nicaragua, one of the three universities that the Society of Jesus has in Central America. “Society of Jesus” is the name of the religious congregation made up of Jesuit priests and other religious workers, a congregation of worldwide scope with an active apostolic presence in five continents. In the specific case of Central America, the Society of Jesus operates in six countries of the region (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama), which are administratively constituted as a single province: The Central American Province of the Society of Jesus.
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