President of the Administrative Council (third from right to left)
President of the Supervising Committee (first from right to left)
General Manager (second from right to left)
And other members of the FEDECOVERA Board of Directors 2005.

FEDECOVERA’s primary objective as an organization is to “Unite its leadership and utilize its managerial expertise to offer effective services to strengthen the fundamental skills of its members in general and of its associates in particular.” As an exporting business organization, our goal is to increase the exportation of the highest quality products of genuine Mayan Traceability.

Representatives of the affiliated cooperatives at the 2005 general assembly.

The values that guide our work at FEDECOVERA are:

• Top-quality products and service
• Teamwork
• Persistence
• Integrity
• Flexibility
• Leadership
• Fair representation
• Independence

FEDECOVERA’s main areas of activity are in the north of Guatemala in and around the departments (states) of Baja and Alta Verapaz. These areas at an altitude of between 2400 and 7700 feet, with temperatures ranging between 63 and 77 degrees Farenheit and annual rainfall between 30 and 100 inches. These conditions are ideal for the cultivation of our export products.

Map of Guatemala, highlighting FEDECOVERA’s primary area of operations.

FEDECOVERA’s headquarters are located in the charming city of Cobán, the capital of Alta Verapaz. This city is 130 miles north of the capital of Guatemala City, is a major destination for adventure and eco-travelers from around the world. Write us, or better yet, come visit! We are located at:

6a Calle 5-05 Zona 11, Cobán, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala, Central America

Or call us at (502) 7952-1035, or visit our website at www.fedecovera.com

The international business office is located in Guatemala City, in the following address:

13 Calle 2-60 Zona 10, Edificio Topacio Azul Oficina 404, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala,
Central América.
PBX: +(502) 2332-8922 / 23 / 24 Ext. 107. Fax: +(502) 2332-8883
E-Mail: slopez@fedecovera.com; gdelgado@fedecovera.com.
www.fedecovera.com

FEDECOVERA has assembled a multidisciplinary team that with proper applied technology offers to its affiliated and small farmer organized groups a myriad of services designed to create integrated and permanent development for its members. By fomenting honest and competent administrative and financial management, we seek to create leaders that in turn create confidence and develop managerial skills in their affiliated cooperatives. Our long term goal: create long-term profitability and sustainability, offering effective and meaningful services to all of its members.

Institutional development created by FEDECOVERA’s system has allowed our beneficiaries to achieve better local development opportunities, minimizing migration to the cities or out of the country. Our continuing experience, along with aid from national and international organizations, has enhanced our reputation and created a solid institutional image both internally and externally.

Therefore FEDECOVERA is member of the following organizations:

• National Coffee Association -ANACAFE-
• Rural Development Fond -FUNRURAL-
• Guatemalan Confederation of Cooperatives -CONFECOOP-
• Rural Development Bank -BANRURAL, S.A.-
• Association of Guatemalan Exporters of Nontraditional Products -AGEXPRONT-
• Guatemala-American Chamber of Commerce -AMCHAM-
• Latin-American Association for small coffee farmers -FRENTE SOLIDARIO-
• Consumer Alliance -ALCONSA-
• Guatemalan Agroforestal Association
• Latin-American Agroforestal Network

Integration among PRODUCER (COOPERATIVE MEMBERS) and the MERCHANT (FEDECOVERA), by a first grade cooperative organization, shows the excellent opportunity that with democracy, discipline and honesty the traceability of the stocks is allowed, and ensuring long term relationships between the client and the producer-merchant.

The product coming from members, men and women, is given at disposition of the market, guaranteeing the execution of QUALITY AND QUANTITY REQUIRED, as well as DELIVERING EXACTLY ON TIME.

The benefits that are obtained from industrialization and commercialization process, are transferred directly to the producers by means of economic incentives for quality, and through services of preventive health, access to financing with completely accessible interests, training and consultantship for technical administrative-organizational-agricultural- family company, and other services described previously.

Training for men and woman on administrative office of a cooperative affiliated to FEDECOVERA.

A first for many- first-class health and medical care.

The construction of new roads means faster and more efficient delivery of goods to market

FEDECOVERA’s forest breeding ground.

Fifteen ways FEDECOVERA serves its members and improves the business and social life of their communities .

• Creating strong organizational systems to insure job security for its members
  
• Strengthening and consolidating our organization to insure all associates have access to production resources.
  
• Effectively integrating employment and social protections,

• Developing innovative methods to increase employment and effective organization.
  
• Pro-actively encouraging local governments to support strong and sustainable projects that enhance local economies.
  
• Overseeing all activities of our organization to insure they function effectively and cooperatively.
  
• Developing opportunities to increase productivity to bring about positive transformations in how we effect change.
  
• Developing programs that leave more profits for the producers by depending less on intermediaries,
  
• Improving the quality of our products to increase both salability and profitability.
  
• Seeking alternative, flexible and creative financing.
  
• Creating free market economics that gives individual members the opportunity to increase their income.
  
• Honoring the cultural heritage that makes each community unique.
  
• Integrating women into all aspects of our businesses, including production, managerial, organizational and ownership
  
• Integrating principal organizations so they can learn, grow, and benefit from each other’s knowledge.
  
• Developing the reputation of the federation with a sense of integrity and shared responsibility for the benefit and growth of all of its members and its clients.