A group of 74 production units from Buenaventura announced the results of the productive transformation towards sustainability. The “Buenaventura Action” event, held in the Banco de la República auditorium, had the participation of nearly 200 people among companies in the port-logistics sector, tourism, and cocoa producers and associations, as well as representatives of the public sector, the academy and the third sector.
Acción Buenaventura is a project focused on strengthening the business fabric and the social capital of Buenaventura, which emerged from an inter-institutional effort between the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism (MINCIT), Bancóldex, the Faculty of Administration of the Universidad de los Andes and local allies, such as the Buenaventura Chamber of Commerce and educational entities in the region.
The event presented the impact results of a program that lasted 8 months, where companies in the port-logistics and tourism chains designed 33 "Cleaner Production" initiatives that allowed them to project economic benefits of approximately $ 2.9 billion. pesos with investments that recover on average in 10 months.
Regarding the results and environmental benefits related to saving water, electricity and garbage production. 23,000 m3 of water were recorded, equivalent to supplying this resource to 500 people per year, as well as 260 tons of waste comparable to the garbage generated by 850 people annually, 172,107 kWh / year in electrical energy, comparable to providing energy to 82 homes annually and avoided CO2 emissions of 1,580 ton CO2 eq., equivalent to taking 250 cars out of circulation.
Likewise, in the cocoa chain, 38 producers belonging to 3 associations and 3 community councils were technically and entrepreneurially strengthened, who jointly designed 6 business models and approached more than 15 potential clients with better commercial conditions.
Additionally and in line with the Buenaventura Action initiative, cocoa producers participated in 2 national trade fairs (Alimentec and Chocoshow 2018), where they managed to: develop 3 new value-added products derived from cocoa, improve their cultivation and post-harvest practices, Send more than 500kg of dry cocoa to an institute in France (CIRAD) to obtain its sensory profile and verify the presence of fine and aromatic cocoa in the region.
In addition to this, two of the service centers trained to multiply the methodologies in the region participated in the event: ICESI University, Universidad del Valle, Pacific headquarters, Universidad del Pacífico and SENA Buenaventura.
Present at the event were: Saúl Pineda, Vice Minister of Business Development, Maria Fernanda Manrique, Executive of Product Development of Bancoldex; Alexander Micolta, director of the Buenventura Chamber of Commerce, among others.
Pineda highlighted the importance of chain collaboration and experiential learning to generate impact results in economic, environmental and social terms. In the same way, he raised the importance of giving continuity to the initiative to continue strengthening the business and social fabric of the region through chains such as port-logistics, tourism and cocoa.
Acción Buenaventura is an initiative that shows how through concrete actions and joint work between the public, private and academic sectors, fundamental changes can be generated from individuals, productive units and even value chains and society.
About the Faculty of Administration
The Faculty of Administration of the Universidad de los Andes was created in 1972 with the mission of educating and training leaders capable of creating, analyzing, transforming and developing private, public and social organizations in Colombia, Latin America and the world, through the appropriation and generation of knowledge for the innovative and sustainable development of these organizations.
Excellence and high quality standards have allowed the Faculty to obtain the most important national and international recognitions and to develop an offer of training programs in undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and executive education that is characterized by its academic quality, the outstanding preparation of their teachers and recognition of their graduates. In Colombia, her undergraduate and master's degrees in Administration have the highest high-quality accreditation from the National Accreditation Council (CNA).
At an international level, the Faculty of Administration has continuously obtained and endorsed the European Quality Improvement System –EQUIS– accreditations granted by the European Foundation for Management Development -EFMD- since 2003; AMBA of the Association of MBAs for the MBA program since 2004, and AACSB for the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, since 2010. These three accreditations, known as "the Triple Crown", are considered the most important and globally recognized., which places the Faculty in 1% of the most prestigious business schools in the world. It is the only one in Colombia to obtain this triple distinction and only eight schools in Latin America have achieved this recognition.
About the University of Los Andes
Founded on November 16, 1948 by a group of young people led by Mario Laserna Pinzón, the Universidad de los Andes is the first private higher education institution in Colombia that is secular and independent of political parties, oblivious to defending the interests of some social or economic group.
Precisely, these characteristics made Los Andes an avant-garde educational project at a historical moment in the country in which private universities had in their classrooms the influence of the partisan struggle. In this historical context, “the birth of the Andes was not only due to the desire to give life to another university or to an exclusively educational interest, but to the intention of creating a new country.
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