Bolivia project 511-0583 · 1985–1988 · trade and investment

Project to promote exports of Bolivian handmade llama and alpaca knitwear by supporting the Asociacion de Artesianias y Moda (ADAM) - an indigneous nonprofit organization, recently established to provide selected artisan knitwear organizations with production, marketing, and training services. ADAM will provide services to four artisan knitwear organizations - the three cooperatives (Fotrama, Amerindia, and Las Imillas) and one private business (Kay Huasy) which account for 90% of the knitwear industry in the Cochabamba area (where 2/3 of Bolivian knitwear is produced). These organizations employ poor, rural women and have a record for remunerating their knitters well. Two other groups will be added during the project. Specifically, ADAM will contract with a U.S. knitwear marketing company to provide services in the areas of market research, product design, production control, and artisan training. The U.S. firm will market the knitwear articles it helps the artisan organization produce. By the fourth year of the project, it is expected that the production and sales of artisanal knitwear will have developed to the point where the artisan organizations and the U.S. firm will cont

Source: DEC abstract, PD-KAC-699 (1985). The source's own text.