Embedded within each of the metrics is a different set of values and ideologies of human and sustainable development. Improving peoples’ daily lives is the raison d’etre for many endeavors, irrespective of whether they are initiated by private sector companies or international NGOs. Making a better ‘widget’ and helping people solve problems is the reason […]
When I was working in Bolivia, I remember learning about a huge call for proposals for projects in the lowland area of the country. Thanks to good relations with the communities in that area, we went to meet the President of the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia (CIDOB) to see whether we could partner […]
This blog post has been produced by Patricia Monje, CEO of ATIPANA and CCIB Solutions associate in Bolivia. Her career prior to entering the extractive sector included work in CARE Bolivia as well as Fundacion PUMA. Está Bolivia perdiendo su oportunidad de inversión social y tecnológica? A pesar de que en los últimos años Bolivia ha estado […]
January 15, 1493 Columbus set sail for Spain from Hispaniola, ending his first voyage to the New World. We usually commemorate his arrival and “discovery” of the new world, but let’s take a moment to reflect on the globalizing forces that were set in motion once he returned to the “old world” five hundred and […]
I am excited to produce my first blog post for CCIB Solutions, my name is Michelle Dupuis and I am the third member of the management team. I was raised all over Latin America and lived in the two poorest countries, Haiti and Bolivia. First hand experience living in developing nations gives me the motivation […]