Three Scenarios / one common problem

Mapping stakeholders and their relations with the project (my client) entitled to identify three scenarios: i) Otavalo Municipality ii) the project iii) University of Pittsburgh.

Those scenarios have clearly acknowledged a common problem: non responsible dialogue practices that negatively impact the cooperation relations and cause a negative effect to activate the business networks.

Three scenarios:

(i) Municipality states that MSMES and Otavalo Tourism Board, in particular, must aim to be self-economical efficient to contribute to local economic development. A considered mechanism will be to formalize the tourism sector through the implementation of taxes; those will be reinvesting on the sector to ultimately activate business networks. For instance, the implementation of Unique Business Window (UBW) is hardly considered.
(ii) The Project states that activating business networks will guarantee the profitability/sustainability of tourism/craft sector. Although, the tense relationship between Municipality and Otavalo Tourism Board stuck the negotiation process. Furthermore, it impacts negatively the dialogue process, causing a negative impact to activate business networks.
(iii) University of Pittsburgh states that there is a lack of comprehension of historical/cultural process (traditions and values) that tackle the cooperation relations of Kichwa-Otavalo ethnic. The indigenous has the tradition to cooperate beyond the core family through minga (in Kichwa an ancestral tradition to cooperate beyond the core family where vecinos contributes in activities such as house construction and farming).

However, they do not have the tradition to cooperate in Business activities; based on the negative perception of obrajes (In Spanish weaving factories introduce don the Spanish colony). In 1500, indigenous become slaves and brutally forced to weave to attend Spanish kingdom.

From this perspective, three scenarios acknowledged one problem: non responsible dialogue practices among MSMES, the project and Otavalo Municipality. However, reducing the analysis to one scenario might constitute a risk of simplification, as well as it denies the dynamic/complex process where actors adopt and adjust their own interactions that are fundamental to map stakeholder relations.