August 2010, Marco Giussani, IFC
Innovative initiatives to help develop SMEs are not at all unusual; but learning about a joint effort between indigenous communities and a private extractive firm that has resulted in community based enterprises, offers an interesting “twist”. In the Bolivian region of El Chaco, where most of the communities are Guaraní – the third indigenous group in the country - we find four innovative initiatives with a different approach to develop MSMEs and implement corporate social responsible practices.
