REGIONS Africa Asia Caucasus and Balkans Central Asia Latin America and Caribbean North America Russia and Eastern Europe

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay
Agribusiness Export Promotion

Sibley International's technical assistance for agribusinesses in Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay led to improved quality and export reliability. The project's scope included growing requirements, packing, grading, packaging, transportation, cold storage and warehousing, financing, and marketing of Latin American products in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

Jamaica
Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project

Sibley is implementing a four-year USAID subcontract to improve the Jamaican business environment, assist SME development, and train Jamaican SMEs to compete in the global market. The project addresses regulatory reform, by aiming to simplify procedures for entrepreneurs to establish and operate businesses, and by assisting ministries and government departments in the design of clear sets of regulations and guidelines. Sibley is managing the development of lower-cost business solutions that are useful and useable for small enterprises, in particular, information on prices, quality of production, and market opportunities. Technical issues for the project include production and plant organization, technology transfer, information technology, marketing, finance, and regulatory requirements. Sibley is also developing financial mechanisms for increased private funding to the micro and small business sector, mainly through expanding retail lending to MSMEs and introducing new lending instruments to attract private capital to the sector.

West Indies
Tropical Produce Support Project (TROPRO)

Sibley International provided technical assistance, infrastructure development, and institutional support to strengthen the private sector capabilities in the production, post harvest handling, transport, and marketing of non-traditional agricultural export products to regional Grantees. This project primarily benefited individual private and public sector agents, farmers, shippers and marketing personnel. In addition, the project helped strengthen the three regional organizations (Organization of Eastern Caribbean, Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute, and Caribbean Agricultural Trading Company) responsible for its implementation.

Brazil
Rural Telecommunications Distribution Study

Sibley International, in cooperation with ICO, completed a comprehensive project to design innovative strategies to deliver phone services to widely dispersed rural communities and create small business opportunities for entrepreneurs in these areas. The Rural Satellite Telecommunications and Distribution Study was for a major international telecommunications client planning to enter 15 emerging markets over two years. The project objectives were to analyze foreseeable roll-out methodologies for rural and remote telecommunications services, as well as to conduct a financial/commercial (business case) analysis, including each user group addressed, from which to make an informed, financially-based decision regarding which rural/remote roll-out scheme was best suited for the client's semi-fixed market

The business case analysis helped to guide the client's investments, and also examined the viability of a franchise or licensed-based distribution network involving a large number of locally-owned small businesses. Studies were conducted for large, diverse markets in Brazil and Russia.