Organisation

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International network

Solidaridad is an international network organization with an office in the Netherlands and a growing number of regional offices in Latin America, Africa and Asia (there will be nine by 2010). More and more tasks are carried out by the regional offices where we work with well-qualified staff. A knowledge of the local situation is the basis for a good policy.

Regional Expertise Centres (REC)

The Regional Expertise Centres are part of Solidaridad’s network. The centres operate as independent offices and have their own operational budget and staff.

• Peru (Andes)
  Director: Gonzalo la Cruz
  Financial staff member: Fiorella Luy
  CSN representative: Ezio Varese
  CSN representative: Fransisco Bustamante
  
• Guatamala
  Director: Brigitte Cerfontaine
  Society building: Dora Mirón
  CSN respresentative: Miguel Gamboa
  CSN representative: Enrique Abril
  CSN representative: Ana Gelera
  
• South and Southeast Asia 
  Director: Shatadru Chattopadhayay
  Consultant palmoil: Dick Veen
  CSN representative: Nguyen Van Thiet
  CSN representative: Le Hong Van
  
• China
  Director: Ying Ma (Martin)
  Coordinator sustainable cottonprojects: Chen Wu
  Projectworker for the improvement of labour conditions: Jane Jian Liu
  Projectworker for the improvement of labour conditions: Bob Weihong Wang 
  
• Southern Africa
  Director: Ruaraidh Petre
  Program assistant: Arianna Baldo
  
• East Africa
  Director: Karugu Macharia
  PME specialist: Jacoline Plomp
  
• Southern America
  Director: Jeroen Douglas (Argentina)
  Program Assistant: Josefina Eisele
  CBSC Manager: Pieter Sijbrandij (Brasil)
  CSN representative: Eduardo Sampaio
  Consultant soy: Paulo Moares
  Coffee support officer: Lucas Negri
• West Africa
  Director: Hans Perk
   

 Solidaridad - the Netherlands

The office of Solidaridad in the Netherlands has product teams for all the economic sectors we work in:

• Coffee: for more information contact Jeroen Kroezen
• Tea: for more information contact Arjen Boekhold
• Cocoa: for more information contact Arjen Boekhold
• Fruits: for more information contact Jeroen Kroezen
• Cotton and textiles: for more information contact Janet Mensink
• Gold and jewellery: for more information contact Jennifer Horning
• Soy and livestock: for more information contact Gert van der Bijl
• Palm oil: for more information contact Irene de Bruin
  
• Sugarcane and bioenergy: for more information contact Sven Sielhorst

The department Solidaridad Business Concepts (SBC) develops new companies and market concepts together with sustainable investors. The aim is to generate more sales of sustainably produced products from developing countries.

Solidaridad is ISO 9001:2000 certified.