REQUESTED INFORMATION, KEY QUESTIONS

1. SINCE WHEN OUR ORGANIZATION OPERATES IN THE COUNTRY AND WHICH

IS OUR LEGAL STATUS

C&D, Conservacion y Desarrollo, an Ecuadorian non-profit organization created in 1992 which promotes the
economic development, the sustainability of natural resources and the raising of public awareness.

2. HOW WE GET OUR FUNDING

International governments, agencies and NGO´s
• USAID- ARD- PRONORTE • Auditorias Ambientales y Sociales
• GTZ • CORPEI
• EMBAJADA DEL REINO UNIDO • CITIGROUP
• SNV • ACCESO- ICCA- USAID
• BID Amaznor • ASEC
• BID • Overbrook Fundation
• Banco Mundial- MNAC • Rainforest Alliace
• IRG- F.NATURA- C&D • Kraft
• Embajada Países Bajos • Bloomer Industries
• Fundación Repsol YPF • Ecologic Fund
• World Cocoa Foundation • Instituto Cartográfico de Cataluña
• • Biocomercio – UNTAG
• Chiquita

National and International Private Sector

• ReyBancorp- Chiquita Banana • Termas de Papallacta
• GRUPO MANOBANDA • QUAZAR
• LE FRUIT • DAPHNE EXPLORER
• GRUPO ANDRADE • Aroma Amazónico
• DELINDELSA • FEDECADE – Ecuador National Cocoa
• GRUPO QUIROGA Producer Federation
• GRUPO NOBOA • ANECACAO
• Tulicorp • SAN CARLOS
• Ecoventura • APROCANE
• Metropilitan Touring • CEFODI
• Hotel Oro Verde • Aerogal
• LAS NAVES
• ASOCIACIÓN DE PRODUCTORES Certification Fees:
ORGANICOS DE VINCES Smart Voyager- Tourism Network of the Americas
• PRONATEC – MARTINETI EUREP-GAP - ISO – HACCP- OSHAS 8000 del
• COFINA Instituto de Normalizacion y Metereologia
• RODOLF WILTTMER EXPLORER Argentino – IRAM-
Rainforest Alliance Certified – Sustainable
agriculture Network

More than 120 contracts and 80 agreements have been celebrated since 1992.

C&D
Carlos Guarderas No.
N47-340
P.O.Box: 1716-1855
Quito - Ecuador
Teléfonos: 593-2-
2240902
3. SERVICES THAT OUR ORGANIZATION PROVIDES

Our expertise is Sustainable Development

Technical Assistance: Market connections, Sustainable Management of small and medium enterprises,
Environmental Impacts Management, Farmer field schools.

Training, Farmer Field Schools for Cacao, Coffee, Broccoli, Tourism, Bananas; Certifications’ HACCP,
EREPGAP, ISO, Internal Auditor’s and External auditors, Trainers of Trainers (TOT); Our trainings are
giving in all the national territory and over seas: Ivory Cost, Colombia, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Bolivia,
Peru, Brazil, Central America, United States.

Credit: Connection between the national and international financial (loans and credit) systems, International
credits management for more than US$ 2.500.000,00 in agriculture and tourism, Fiduciary management of
Cacao Federations, Credits for small and medium cacao producers, Credit for tourism enterprises in
Galápagos and now for small and medium tourist operations at the continent.

Management and business administration: Helping in Consolidation of first and second level
Organizations, Support in connection and linkage with markets, accounting, quality and chain of custody.

Certifications: International programs like Smart Voyager- Tourism Network of the Americas – (TNA),
EUREP-GAP - ISO-HACCP - OSHAS 8000 of the Argentinean Institute of Normalization and Meteorology
– IRAM, Rainforest Certified – Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN)

Environmental and social impacts studies: Environmental Impact Audit and

Social Impact Audit

4. POPULATION OR CLIENTS “OBJECTIVES” WHO WE WORK WITH, INCLUDING

NUMBER

Our clients are: local governments, small and medium farmers, small, medium and big private
companies including different productive systems:
AREA PEOPLE INVOLVED CLUSTER
DIRECTLY
Technical support 15000

Training, Sustainable Schools 7363, 1500, 3500, 1200, ARD - USAID , GTZ- KRAFT,
10.000 RAS-RA-TOURISMS,
BANANA
management, administration and credit 3550
private companies 350
Local governments 25
Certifications SURFACE
cocoa 3005 6,140 has,
banana 58 10,600 has,
Banana 1 100 4,500 has

C&D
Carlos Guarderas No.
N47-340
P.O.Box: 1716-1855
Quito - Ecuador
Teléfonos: 593-2-
2240902
 tourism certificates 150
pineapples 2 415 has
flowers 65 300 has
broccoli 3 800 has
Ubillas 1 65 has
Coffee 1000 2,500 has
Broccoli 25 14 has
Vegetables 200 50 has
handling of natural resources 15000
studies of environmental and social 40
impact
PERSONS DIRECTLY 42,132
TOTAL CERTIFIED HAS 35,124
PROTECTED FOREST 350,000
AREAS HAS DIRECT

5. PREPONDERANT REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY WHERE WE WORK

Ecuadorian Coastal Region, Ecuadorian Amazonia Region, North and South of the Highlands from Ecuador,
Galápagos Archipelago.

6. OUTSTANDING RESULTS OF OUR WORK

• 23 000 million banana boxes are certified, benefiting 20.000 workers, generating an approx. movement
of $70 million dollars yearly.
• 3005 certified small producers, benefiting to 20.000 people, generating an approximate economic
movement of $980 000 of American dollars yearly.
• 30.700 tourists traveling in certified operations, generating an economic movement of $107 million
dollars yearly.
• 90.000 tourists use certified hotels, generating a movement of $9,000.000 a year
• 24,100 reforested hectares, the future value will be 168,700.000 in the next 20 years
• 4,803 hectares of new established cocoa, producing 96,060 quintals of 100 pounds for a value of $9,6
millions a year
• 16,160 cocoa hectares, handling plantations, with an approximate yearly export of 13,896.000 American
dollars
• C&D has influenced directly through it’s systems in approximately US$ 379,176,000 to the annual
economical movement of our country.

7. SUMMARY OF THE MOST RELEVANT KEY QUALIFICATIONS

C&D, Conservacion y Desarrollo, a non-profit organization created in 1992 which promotes the economic
development, the sustainability of natural resources and the raising of public awareness. C&D has been
responsible for the design and development program and follow-up of markets access for certified products
and no certified products. C&D has been working with other related agencies and governments in the
sustainable use of resources. This experience has given him the knowledge to work in new products like
cocoa, flowers, coffee, bananas, fruits, industries, tourism, etc. This constant search for new markets and
opportunities keeps him informed of the latest information available. C&D participated directly in the
creation and the national and international success of FEDECADE (The National Federation of Cocoa
Producers) as business and cocoa cluster manager. Conservacion y Desarrollo has helped to create new
systems that allow cocoa, café, bananas producers to be more competitive within the market and in
accordance with national and international economic, social and environmental regulations. C&D has

C&D
Carlos Guarderas No.
N47-340
P.O.Box: 1716-1855
Quito - Ecuador
Teléfonos: 593-2-
2240902
designed economic and financial models to help small and big farmers trade their banano and cocoa while
earning better prices. His areas of expertise include markets access, coordinating, cluster development
Projects, consulting grants management and helping certifying a wide variety of products under ISOS, social,
environmental and fair trade standards. C&D is also responsible for the overall results in most of the projects
in the organization. In the private sector Conservacion y Desarrollo has vast experience in areas such as
telecommunication, industry, agriculture, real estate, tourism and financing. His constant search for
opportunities has let him participate in many projects that have increased his ability to understand the
Ecuadorian and International market and its processes.

Conservacion y Desarrollo has lead developed and applied Business Clusters collaborative team approaches
to allow businesses, regions and interest groups to develop greater speed, quality, innovation and critical
mass. This assists in resolving practical issues like, grants management, training, infrastructure and
procurement. Conservacion y Desarrollo has collaborated for many years with credit and financial
institutions working particularly with micro credits to communities projects, focused in Fiduciary systems
with Citigroup foundation, Citigroup – Produbanco - Ecologic Fund and Overbrook Foundation in Ecuador,
raising working capital for the less-favored and less organized sectors of the Ecuadorian productive sector.
Conservación & Desarrollo worked very closely in the cocoa cluster since January 2004 with ARD
PRONORTE, a project designed and executed by ARD Inc. funded by USAID, at the Northern boarder of
Ecuador. The objective of this project was mainly to generate and improve employee and incomes for the
Ecuadorian Northern Boarder small farmers. C&D began important and decisive consultancy subcontracts,
some of them were: Creation, Adaptation and Edition of the “Farmer Field School Manual”, as soon as the
manual was approved, C&D signed a new subcontract with ARD Pronorte to execute the methodology in the
field, that way under his direction the Farmer Field School started showing pretty soon it´s success with the
cocoa farmers located in the provinces of Esmeraldas at the Coast, Orellana and Sucumbios located at the
Amazon region, under this methodology approximately 7363 farmers were trained under the cocoa cluster
team.

C&D
Carlos Guarderas No.
N47-340
P.O.Box: 1716-1855
Quito - Ecuador
Teléfonos: 593-2-
2240902