Ecuador project 518-0019 · 1984–1992 · trade and investment · Devres, Inc.

Project to promote nontraditional agricultural exports by private companies in Ecuador. The project, to be implemented by the Federation of Ecuadorean Exporters (FEDEXPOR) and the Ecuador National Association of Businessmen (ANDE) and other entities noted below, will provide information/support and policy/planning services and establish agribusiness finance facilities and an Agribusiness Advisory Board (AAB). To expand FEDEXPOR's role as an intermediary between Ecuadorean and foreign businesses, AID-provided hardware, software, TA, and training will create a FEDEXPOR information system with storage and retrieval capabilities linked to a U.S. intermediary (the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry) which will channel information to FEDEXPOR's clients. FEDEXPOR will also sponsor six in-country workshops on exporter problems and will assist exporters in the documentation process. In the area of policy and planning, short-term, in-country training in policy analysis techniques will enable FEDEXPOR staff to conduct limited policy analyses and to supervise analyses contracted out to other firms (A.I.D. and FEDEXPOR will co-finance three such analyses during the project). Short-

Source: DEC abstract, PD-AAP-570 (1984). The source's own text.