COMPLETE CURRICULUM

Principal targets

To promote economic supportive cooperation projects between the North and the South of the World.

To supervise and to check the correctness of the whole weaving factory also to protect the weakest actors of the same weaving factory (producers and consumers) through the release of an IDENTIFICATIVE mark.

To promote in every way the ethical and sustainable consumptions as correct attitudes of peace and solidarity.

Activity and services:

• to defend and to protect the production and the commerce of the PRODOTTO GIUSTO ETICO E SOLIDALE (defined by the July 2nd 1998 European Parliament resolution and by the papers of the fairtrade emanated in Europe and in Switzerland by the international fairtrade organizations) and the use of its denomination.

• to promote every useful initiative to safeguard its peculiar features

• to publicize its consumption, to facilitate its commerce and its diffusion.

The Consortium also provides:

• to distinguish and to guarantee the PRODOTTO GIUSTO ETICO E SOLIDALE through the apposition of special countersigns deposited as by law enacted;

• to put into effects opportune initiatives realized to improve and refine on a quality level the PRODOTTO GIUSTO ETICO E SOLIDALE, giving to the consortium members the necessary technical directives and assistance;

• to practice an active vigilance on the production and on the commerce of the PRODOTTO GIUSTO ETICO E SOLIDALE, on the use of its denomination and on the consortium’s marks;

• to expound all the roles and the activities eventually submitted by the State by the Regions and by the European Community;

• to promote and to publicize the consumption of fair-trade products and of the PRODOTTO GIUSTO ETICO E SOLIDALE, as well as to favor and to organize all those initiatives made to valorize the PRODOTTO GIUSTO ETICO E SOLIDALE and to increase its image and its notoriety.

Presentation:

The GIUSTO ETICO E SOLIDALE Consortium ConGES is an associated enterprise, without lucrative purposes, constiuited by Italian organizations with long experience and deep conviction in actions directed to the local economic development, with a commitment in the promotion of a opportune settings to create and to consolidate the sustainable and responsible exchanges.

The Consortium gathers enterprises, institutes of certification and associations without lucrative purposes specialized in different areas characterized by the development of sustainable activity, realizing both the process of formulation and implementation of public politics both the elaboration and monitoring of business plan.

The ConGES is formed from Istitutions with knowledge and long experience in the international technical and financial cooperation, consultancies in sustainable activity, in the financial promotion, in the productive reconversion, in the productive diversification, in the creation and application of certifications (of origin, of quality, biological, and other), in the fairtrade, in the responsible tourism, in the formulation of international and national politics and programs of the European Union and of the Italian Government, in the DIAGNOSTICA DELL’OFFERTA and of the market perspectives.

The ConGES recognizes the importance of improvement attaching importance to the role of the strategies and the instruments for the differentiation of the products, through the development of standard of physical quality, technology and especially of those standards that incorporate as added value the environmental cultural and social dimension, of the productive and commercial process.
To belong to the Consortium permit to obtain assistance, the marks and the registered trademark of PRODOTTO GIUSTO ETICO E SOLIDALE

Who we are:

• ACEA, Association for ethical and alternative consumption: association that wants to safeguard and defend the consumption and the ethical alternative consumers.

• ACRA, Association for the Rural Cooperation in Africa and in Latin America:
This ONG constituted in 1968 realizes projects with the aim of involving mostly rural communities and villages, trying to respond to the primary needs and sustain local self-developing processes.

• APE - Ethic-Environmental promotion association .
Founded in Brescia from the cooperation of some professionals in the field of communication and marketing. APE has the aim of promoting and commercializing poduct coming from Fair Trade circuit and from the family of typical and biological products.

• BIOAGRICOOP/BIOAGRICERT: is the most important organisms of certification and control of agricultural productions and food and it’s accredited by Sincert, UE, Ifoam

• DEAFAB, European Delegation of Brazilian Family Agriculture: no profit association of international relationships. It promotes the activities of the small farmers and of the communities of the family agriculture, of the productions of the local crafts, of the promotion of ecological and responsible tourism of Brazil and other south America countries (Mexico, Argentina, Perù, Venezuela, Costa Rica); the headquarters are in Italy, representation in South America in Brasilia.

• DIFARMA, Pharmaceutical Sciences Dept. Of Salerno University : Departement of the most ancient european university dedicated to the analysis and the studies on the safety and the added value of herbal, alimentary and pharmaceutical products bent to the Fair Trade criteria.

• GBS: cooperative of experts in working out, carrying out and spread of economical studies, executive projects, business plans, market oriented projects, local development projects and others.

• Sustainable exchanges p.s.c.ar.l.: is the first cooperative in Italy that offers services for the Fair Trade and it’s an import centre with head ofice in Palermo.

• YUNGAR - Association for the Development of the District of Fimela Yungar: it’s a federation of farmer groups that represents 64 villages in the Senegalese region of Fatick.

Cooperation relationships with Italy

• ACCESSO: social cooperative specialized in communication and events

• CCE (Consortium for the Cooperative Ecomony): it’s a consortium constituted by one of the three cooperative center italian (ACGI) . the partners are cooperatives that work in all the economic fields. The Consortium promotes the development of enterprises in the underdeveloped countries, focusing its attention on the creation of enterprises cooperatives for the achievement of an equal partnership system

• ICEI: traditional ONG that deal with education,development and international economic cooperation

• ALTERNATIVE TRADE: it’s one of the centre in Italy recognized by IFAT (international federation of Fair Trade operators).

Cooperation relationships with Brazil:

• Contag- Nacional Confederation of Framers

• Foundation Lyndolpho Silva- Brasilia

• Museum of the Image and of the Sound- San Paulo

• Government of Pernambuco/SEPLAN- Project Renascer and PROMATA

• Government of Ceará/PCPR

• Government of Piauí/PCPR

• Governement of Mina Gerais/Emater MG

• Prefecture of Salinas- programme about the cachaca

• Council of the tribe Saterê Mawê (Amazonia)- project about the guaranà

• Chico Mendes Cooperative (Acre)- project about the brazilian walnut.

• Cooperative of the small producers of the MG organic coffee

• Natural Cosmetics S.A./ Management of the products development

• GreenPeace Brazil/ Todaba

• BrasMazon Ingredients S.A.

• Cooperative of the Cachaça of Salinas- Coopercachaça
• Vacaro Farm – handmade organic of Chapada Diamantina

• Association of women producers of Andiroba in Maranhão

• Association of Quebradeiras de Babaçu - Free Babaçu (MA e PI)

• Coopercaju- Cooperative of cashew nut and chestnut Producers in RN

• Quilombola Community of Conceição das Crioulas

Others cooperation relationships abroad

• FAO Rome – studies of supply and demand of the products in the northeast of Brazil

• Mondial Bank- Fair Trade programme (Northeast of Brazil )

• European Cooperation (UE)- drafting of technical and finacial international cooperation agreements

• SANA Bologna – oranization of the annual patrticipation of the Brazilians exhibitors

• Association of countrywomen of Mexico- prospects of market and promotion of the exports

• Mondial Social Forum- Political Assistance and International Coordination

• Mondial Forum of the alternatives - Political Assistance and International Coordination

• Chamber of Commerce and of the Industry Brazil-Germany – Promotion of the exports of the brazilian family agriculture

• Embrapa Office- Partnership for the international cooperation and for the promotion of the brazilian family agriculture exports.

• APEX Brazil / MDIC- consultancy and services for the exports promotion

• Ministry of the Agricultural Development – consultancy for international cooperation, fir trade and exports promotion;

• National SEBRAE – Consultancy and partnership for exports promotions, market prospects and fair trade.

• Forum of the brazilian fair trade (FACES of Brazil)- Partnership in the fair trade, techological exchange, carrying out of meetings, achievement of projects of international cooperation.

Human resources

• 15 experts in international cooperation for a sustainable development

• agronomist engineer and agricultural economist.

• 5 experts in marketing

• 2 experts in certification and market politics

• 2 experts in tourism

• 3 qualified interpreters or portuguese-italian-enghlish-spanish.
This experts and their organisations combine a scientific and technical knowledge a long experience in projects, pubblic politics, humanitarian aid, and associations in several countires like: Italy, Ireland, Uk, France, Suisse, Spain,Germany, Bosnia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Ghana, India, Sri Lanka, Argentina and Mozambique.

Examples of activities carried out

Mission carried out by Fao in Brazil (Ceará, Piauí, Bahia, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte, and a meeting with a delegation of Maranhão), June of 2002
Object of the mission: as indicated in the terms of references of FAO, the mission aimed at verifying the possibilities of export, within the fair trade, the products of the communities of small family farmers of the north-east of Brazil; (the products especially were: cajù chestnut, honey, food coming from cassava for animals, handicrafts, others.). The survey had to be effectued through the data collection about the existing supply, about the products quality and the needs in terms of investments to reach the standards required by the market.

Achievement of the aims fixed
• The visits expected have all been carried out

• Moreover, each Country has organized opening and final valutation meetings with the local authorities and the representatives of the differents agricultural workers federations members of CONTAG.

• All the product typologies indicated in the termes of references have been analized too

Mission in Pernambuco (Visit to the Promata head office on the occasion of the National Fair of the Family Agriculture and of the Land Reform), November of 2004.
Object of the mission: to deepen the knowledge of the region of the government programme PROMATA and its level of progress in wiev of an agreement of technical and financial cooperation between the planning Secretary of the Government of the Pernambuco State and the Conges.
Achievement of the aims fixed: the visit has permitted severals meetings with institucionals authorities and has offered the opportunity to deepen the Pernambuco reality. We laid the basis for a collaboration between PROMATA and CONGES for activities of consultancy about rural responsible tourism and small enterprise, assistance for the exports and for the articulation and working out of international cooperation agreements.

Study of the cajù pulp: partnership Acs (association for the cooperation and the development), Conges, Deafab, Universitt of Padova (State of Cearà, in Jjioca de Jericoacoara). The aim of the study was to understand how to exploit a resource always unused to give un incentive and new ways for the local agriculture. It’s about cajù, wild plant that produces a real fruit (chestnut of cajù better known as cashew, whose trade is already very developed) that grows at the estremity of a false pulpy fruit, object of the study above-mentioned. The Region of Cearà is an area that produces big quantities of cajù where there is a serious problem of waste, because the 96% of the cajù peduncle is wasted, the farmers pick the chestnut throwing on the ground the false fruit. The final project plans the installation of a mini enterprise (it’s about a pilot project that could be repeated in other areas of the country) for the cultivation of this fruit with the involvement of the local population to improve the existing life conditions and to solution, even if partially, some socioeconomic problems which exist in this specific area of Brazil.

Import of products

Projects in progress

• Consultancy for producers (honey of Piauì,cashews, cachaça)

• Preparation of the sale contract for the Cooperative Pando for the amazonian cocnut

• Project Amazonia in cooperation with Acra

• Inquiry on the fair trade adressed to the lombard enterprises about the level of interest and of knowledge, to create a database of enterprises interested in buying and/or selling raw materials or finished products of the fair trade.

• Etnobotanical research in the area of Puquio, Coracora, Pausa, Incuvo, Dipartment of avachù, Perù, realized by the Dr. Fabiana Pietrellini and in cooperation with Deafab. The aim is to gather informations about the territory and to compile an herbarium to develope and to increase the activities of the cooperation for the development of the Consorce in the Latin American area and especially in Perù.
Support to the project “Question of style” promoted by the association Cast of Laveno (VA), that consists in 5 meetings of domestic ecology in Milan.