IMPACTS IMPACTS ofof PACA - APPLICATIONS PACA - APPLICATIONS in ECUADORin ECUADOR

Authors:

The LED-Team of GTZ and PROMODE

March 2005

Impacts on Individual CompaniesImpacts on Individual Companies

• Improvement of productivity and customer attention • Increasing sales• Opening of new markets and commercial opportunities• Decrease of production costs• Improvement in management performance• Learning new means of production • Improvement of marketing activities and product presentation • Legalization of microenterprises

Impacts on Support InstitutionsImpacts on Support Institutions

CONSORCIO DE CONSEJOS PROVINCIALES DEL ECUADOR

• Forming of public-private teams and inter-institutional networks, triggering impulses on production. Success of PACA-activities and exercises exceeds 60%.

• Local and provincial governments promote and sustain local economic development: offices, budgetary assignments, decrees.

• CONCOPE is a very active promoter of initiatives of economic development.

• Local-level development agencies apply PACA-processes with support of the National Council of Competitiveness.

• Entrepreneurial associations strengthen their unique selling point and develop new support initiatives to their partners.

• New business associations are established.

Impacts on Social CapitalImpacts on Social Capital

• Increase in the social cohesion in the business sector.• Integration of the cultural diversity into the initiatives of

competitive development.• Growing communication and increase of confidence

between public and private actors.• Positive connotation of business activities.

Impacts on Learning about Impacts on Learning about CompetitivenessCompetitiveness

• Inter-institutional teams trained in concepts and applications of promotion of competitiveness.

• Participatory diagnoses on the competitive situation of local economies.

• Diversity of training courses, carried out as PACA exercises.

Impacts on Local EconomyImpacts on Local Economy

Diversity of linked actions among different economic sectors:

tourism - crafts; eco tourism; tourism - coffee production; frog raising - cattle raising - fish raising

Socio-Environmental ImpactsSocio-Environmental Impacts

• All PACA-projects were applied to micro and small businesses.

• Reforestation in fish-cultivation areas.• New eco-tourism routes.• Prohibition of use of haulage fishing nets and decrease

of fishing during growth periods.• Studies to specify prohibited periods in crustaceans

collection.• Qualification in non pollutant ceramic production.• Application of guidelines of wood-sawing on location.