Walisuma: The best we have
- Biodiversity
- Climate change
- Conscious consumerism
- Corporate social responsibility
- Conservation
- Economic development
- Fair trade
- Green business
- Income generation
- Green consumerism
- Poverty alleviation
- Rural development
- Marketing
- Sustainable development
- Networking
- Sustainable agriculture
- Wildlife conservation
Capitan Ravelo 2441
La Paz
La Paz
Poverty reduction, competitiveness and productivity improvement in most poverty regions
Operating for 1-5 years
<$100
Walisuma is a bet to build a competitive advantage for Bolivia based on his principle richness: culture, ancestral and traditional knowledge and nature diversity. It pretends to introduce high quality bolivian products on the most exquisite nich markets to show the world the real opportunity Bolivia with its farmers and artisans has.
The big bet that it is possible to transform competitive disadvantages in competitive advantages.
Development & Prosperity , Business , Community development , Design , Economic development , Employment , Income generation , Marketing , Poverty alleviation , Rural development , Medio Ambiente & Sustentabilidad, Biodiversity , Climate change , Conservation , Green business , Sustainable agriculture , Indigenous cultures , Intercultural relations .
We have had 50 artisans and 5.000 farmers working in this perspective with some specific results on exportation into this premium markets.
building competitive advantages for artisans and farmers in Bolivia
Identify comparative advantages artisans and farmers has
Build capacities in farmers and artisans to be competitive in premium markets
Create a commercial venture in big cities to prove the brand position based on nature, culture and traditions
Masify the intervention
The first 50 artisans and 5.000 farmers have to be the best ones to show that the route is the correct
The logistics and quality control processes in the artisans and farmers have to work correctly
4 commercial ventures are working having big benefits
yes, an strategis plan
Correct identification of the best artisans and farmers
The best logisticas and production processes applied for the artisans and farmers
Building the competitive advantage based on nature, culture and tradition
Identify the best and most adequate experts to assess the artisans and farmers
Implement the changes taking care not homogenize the farmers and artisans
Transfering demand needs to artisans and farmers helping them to think and see future action in function of demand
Identify the best partners en each city selected
Identify the best corporate identity for the commercial venture
Stablish the most competitive logistic to be price competitive in the production and logistics process, trying to rise the be able to pay based on culture, nature and tarditions
Bolivian products are known by their respect to environment, sustainable development, culture , traditional knowledge in at least 4 big cities.
The big political crisis in Bolivia that did not permit to think in a competitive advantage for my country
Nuevo Norte is an NGO organization create by bolivian entrepeneurs that had create this organization 3 years ago with the big objective to impulse the productivity in farmers and artisans
By internet
Our incapacity to maotivate artisans and farmers
yes
Nuevo Norte that it has finance aid from Nteherlans embassy and USAID
3 years
yes ita has a board of directors (16 entrepeneurs)
it is an NGO
yes, at least 15 big bolivian firms have impulsed Nuevo Norte initiative
no
Nuevo Norte has an entrepeneural attitude and it is becasue business man give strategic vision
If we are able to connect farmers and artisnas to this markets, the initiative will serve each year more and more artsinas and farmers
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Non-profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
USAID (United States) .