Work areas
Climate Change
SISTME® has professionals specialized in the design and execution of baselines, evaluation and systematization of projects related to climate change, playing a fundamental role in the search for sustainable and effective solutions to face current environmental challenges.
SISTME team members analyze, evaluate and advise projects that address key issues such as emissions mitigation and climate change adaptation. Using a multidisciplinary approach, they work closely with government organizations, businesses and local communities to identify opportunities, assess risks and design strategies that promote resilience and environmental protection, particularly in Latin America and Asia.
Innovation
SISTME® team members have led teams developing technological solutions for the tracking and monitoring of projects in various sectors, and for specific technological ventures in the tourism sector (technological solutions for the global airport retail sector; and development, deployment and maintenance of mobile applications).
In addition, they have worked in teams developing innovative projects, both at the individual and corporate entrepreneurial level.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
The team has experience in analysis and evaluation of inclusive business projects with the base of the population pyramid in information technologies applied to tourism. This work has included working closely with Microsoft, Google, and other leading international technology players. Through regional centers of technological innovation, it has been in charge of promoting the development of technological solutions (software for private companies, governments and public-private organizations for the management of tourist destinations), including incubation, strengthening, financing and management of private and public enterprises. The model of intervention and systematization of solutions produced by the technology innovation center for the tourism sector has been used to generate a platform for systematization and transaction of knowledge and technological solutions in other sectors of the LAC economies.
In addition, one of the team members coordinated the Information Technology and Electronics Production Chain of Córdoba, Argentina, which began with 29 members and today has 300 technology companies among its members.
Finally, the SISTME team has evaluated more than 10 projects of the IDB/MIF ICT4BUS Program in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Peru.
Tourism
The team has extensive experience working in the area of tourism, as some of its members have led the identification and design of more than 30 sustainable tourism operations with MIF funds and other members have evaluated tourism projects, covering almost all countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Local Development
The SISTME® team has worked in advising, training and directing Local Development Agencies, with emphasis on the integration of the public and private sectors for the design and execution of activities to support the business and entrepreneurial sector. This work carried out by members of the SISTME® team included the design and supervision of operations, as well as the coordination and management of the execution of some of them.
Poverty Reduction
Members of the SISTME® team have worked on the design and evaluation of poverty reduction projects. This included working on trade liberalization and facilitation and poverty alleviation programs co-financed between DFID and IDB-MIF; and on social tourism and poverty reduction in programs financed by the United Nations.
Business Development
SISTME® has professionals with experience in the design, management and evaluation of business development projects in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa. The activities developed include assistance to companies for competitive adaptation based on the formulation of business plans and the development of networks of companies and between them and the civil society.
Competitiveness
Likewise, the SISTME® team of professionals has participated in local competitiveness forums, in the preparation and calculation of indexes to measure competitiveness in its various dimensions, for the diagnosis and outlining of government policies at the local level.
Cluster promotion
The members of the team have actively participated in various experiences of diagnosis, design, implementation and evaluation of programs aimed at improving competitiveness through collective action among companies in related sectors. SISTME® professionals have participated as guests and speakers in several meetings of productive integration projects organized by the IDB in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and USA.
Export Promotion
The SISTME® team has experience in export promotion and competitiveness improvement programs for MSMEs, through pre-competitive subsidies and technical assistance granted to these companies.
Family Businesses and Corporate Governance
The SISTME® team has worked in the design and evaluation of projects for the professionalization of family businesses and the development of Corporate Governance tools in Argentina, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Dominican Republic and Uruguay.