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Across the world we can see experiments in ‘participatory governance’. People and organisations are grasping opportunities provided by decentralisation and other reform processes and demanding more of a say in the public policy and budget processes that affect them.
Alberto is director of the non-governmental organisation Organización para la Promoción Comercial y la Investigación (OPCION) in Guatemala, where he works on rural development — researching and implementing approaches to strengthen the organisational, productive and commercial capacities of small-scale farmers in Central America. He is also president of Comercializadora Aj Ticonel, a company that produces, packages and exports vegetables to Central American, US and European markets.
