More than ten years promoting the generation of a productive economy in developing regions to improve the livelihoods of local communities.
Esade Alumni Social and Esade SUD join forces on an international project where the Esade community coalesces around a mission: promote sustainable productive economies in developing regions and improve the livelihood of the local populations
TOGETHER is an opportunity for transformation for the communities visited and the volunteers involved.
This project has a twofold impact:
How does it work?
Our volunteers are: 
Program goals:
TOGETHER is more than a project; it is a partnership among alumni, students, and committed organizations.
Valleverde
2021 a 2024
The Valleverde company was created with the purpose of bringing to local markets the vegetables produced by 72 families that work in 224 greenhouses and 28 Family Processing Centers (CPFs) in Bolivia’s highlands. Through the consulting of the Together program, we seek to optimize internal processes in terms of operations, commercialization and finances.
El Huerto
2018 a 2021
Since 2018, the entrepreneur Maria Rosa Chuquima has been committed to inclusion in each step of the value chain. This ambitious agronomist together with her husband founded “El huerto” in order to respond to an unsatisfied demand for vegetable seeds and seedlings for production in the Andean region of Bolivia, and to offer better quality supplies than those found in the market (imported and smuggled). The program allowed the comapny to professionalize, develop a specific strategy to work with the most vulnerable vegetable producers and incorporate women into the company as employees and partners.
Aproman Mizque
2018 a 2020
This is a limited liability company based in Mizque, Cochabamba, Bolivia. It is a peanut cooperative that has a great deal of potential to help small peanut producers boost sales and stabilize their income. The company has one permanent customer in Germany which guarantees the volume of sales. The main problem was related to cashflows due to production times and dependence on intermediaries. The partnership focused on defining the annual cashflow in 2018, improving internal management, and establishing a new sales policy that would include a wholesale channel.
Madre Tierra Amazonia
2018 a 2019
Madre Tierra is a limited liability company whose owners are two associations of small producers. It offers frozen pulp and other derivatives made of açaí and cupoazú, tropical, native and organic fruits with high market demand. They use Agroforestry Systems designed to fight against deforestation and dependence on logging exploitation in the region.
Centro de Estudios de Acción Social (CEAS)
2020 a 2023 - 2023 a 2026
CEAS (Centro de Estudios de Acción Social) is an organization that encompasses different social projects, including cacao cooperatives led by the association Dois Riachões. Specifically, 82 farmers in five settlements, 30 of them women, are already participating in the project, which could potentially benefit another 300 farmers settled in agrarian reform areas. For most of these families, agriculture is their main economic activity. The Together project aims to replace the exclusive production model in southern Bahia with an agro-ecological one led by the families of the settlements and farmers to control the complete production cycle of high-quality cacao and its byproducts.
Suyusama & Canasta verde
2018 a 2021 - 2023 a 2026
Suyusama is a social organization located in Colombia whose main goal is to collaborate with local communities and social and institutional sectors to develop peaceful, sustainable environments based on the solidarity economy, reconciliation, and sustainability that foster a good quality of life and social justice. It was established as a program to coordinate the Jesuit Social Centers in Colombia in February 2004 in an effort to improve their service in the southwest region of the country. It became a foundation in 2014.
Techo
2022 a 2025
Techo originated in Costa Rica in 2006 with the name of “Un Techo para mi País” [A Roof for my Country]. The prime purpose of this initiative is to foster community development in the country’s precarious settlements through a variety of projects related to building permanent and emergency housing, food security and electrical lighting, thus promoting social action and bringing visibility to the exclusion of vulnerable populations. Techo Costa Rica had built 1,700 emergency homes throughout the country by 2017. The goal of the solidarity consulting project is to help Techo Costa Rica optimize its processes in order to provide a quicker emergency response.
Yomol A’tel
2013 a 2019 - 2022 a 2025
Corena
2021 a 2024
Corena is an organization in Senegal that administers the community natural reserve of Boundou, a protected area measuring 120,000 hectares in eastern Senegal with around 9,000 residents. The organization’s mission is to promote local economic development through activities that are respectful of both the environment and the natural resources, such as beekeeping, poultry farming, hydraulic projects, and ecological tourism, among other initiatives. It also promotes women’s empowerment and indirectly the empowerment of the entire community. The goal of the Together project is to work on. The sustainable commercialization of the baobab to ensure additional income for the local women, which has direct repercussions on improving the quality of life of all families and the education of their children.
GIE Experna
2019 a 2020
GIE Experna is a social company created in 2007 that promotes and fosters the role of women in Senegal. The project seeks to generate wealth in a disadvantaged region through agro-forestry work with baobab. Other goals include creating jobs, boosting income, and training in leadership and entrepreneurship, especially women and young harvesters. The consulting of the Together project was done in the small disadvantaged city of Goudiry (Senegal) with the goal of making a strategic diagnosis that will help Experna plan for the future and boost its production capacity.
CCAIJO & SUMAC
2017 a 2022
Since 2012, CCAIJO supports rural communities (more than 500 families) in the Ocongate district in Cuzco (Peru) In the production of milk and the strengthening of entrepreneurship in the production of dairy products. The partnership with Esade alumni focused on strengthening the cost control systems, standardizing production processes, designing commercialization strategies, supporting the development of the milk production chain, and improving the CCAIJO teams’ business management skills.
CIPCA & APROCAP
2017 a 2020 - 2022 a 2025
APPROCAP was founded in 2003 in the department of Piura in northern Peru with the mission of strengthening cacao production processes. In the past five years, CIPCA has supported the association in improving its agro-ecological processes and has managed to multiply the dry cacao grain production threefold per hectare. The business consultancy aims to introduce management techniques, improve production and sales performance, expand markets, and provide conceptual support to the organization’s practical experience.
The Together project’s contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals
The TOGETHER project works actively to promote these SDG’s:
and it works indirectly on these SDG’s:
ESADE Alumni Social and ESADE SUD collaborate on these projects in developing countries.
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Barcelona
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Madrid
silvia.losada@esade.edu
