The Latin American Association of Industries (AILA) organizes the World Business Forum. The international event will take place in Hotel Hilton Colón in Guayaquil (Ecuador) on November 30 and December 1, 2010. The Forum will focus on the Complementarity of the Private and Public Sectors for Sustainable Development. 

Key speakers include: Vicente Fox (Former President of Mexico), Oscar Arias (Former President of Costa Rica), Nathalie Cely (Minister of Production, Ecuador), Rafael Correa (President of Ecuador) and Reintje van Haeringen (Director, Knowledge Institute, SNV).

Some of the topics treated are: 
- Integration, Development and Innovation in Latin America
- Investment, Growth and Economic Development with Social Justice
- Successful Private-Public Initiatives in Latin America

Reintje van Haeringen, Director of the Knowledge Institute of SNV in Latin America, will be a key speaker in the session titled "Social Challenges and Trends in Latin America” with Arturo Condo, from INCAE Business School, Costa Rica. 

Guayaquil, June 2010 - The Federation of Ecuadorian Chambers of Industry and SNV presented their initiatives on production development and Inclusive Business to the Minister of Industry and Productivity (MIPRO),  Ms. Verónica Sión.

The presentation was given by the President of the Federation, Xavier Durán y representatives of SNV, in Guayaquil.

Download PDF in Spanish here.

 
Ecuador: Thanks to SNV's advisory services, the Ministry of Agriculture will launch the National Inclusive Business Program on July 1, 2010, in Hotel Ramada, Guayaquil. 6 pm.

SNV and Empresa Metropolitana Quito Turismo presented their new leaflet called  "Tourism: An Opportunity for Development" (in Spanish), thanks to the financial support of the European Union.

The goal of this leaflet is to show how tourism can benefit the communities and how the communities can contribute to develop and sustain tourism activities in the region where the initiative "Strengthening family productive units" is being implemented.  

The distribution of the leaflet is carried out in conjunction with workshops to raise awareness about the potential of tourism in urban and rural areas of Quito, Ecuador. Local authorities are contributing to the organisation of these workshops promoting a warm and helpful attitude towards the tourist and also encouraging inhabitants to create new touristic products and services.

For more information, please contact Pablo Torres, SNV Advisor: ptorres@snv.org.ec

A well-known Ecuadorian company that manufactures polypropylene bags is now working with SNV. Institutions are among the company’s top customers and account for 60-70% of its sales. Middlemen account for the remaining sales, and therefore the company had little idea who the end-users of their plastic bags were.