Avina

AVINA was founded in 1994 by the Swiss entrepreneur Stephan Schmidheiny, who inspired the vision and values that guide the organization. AVINA is maintained by VIVA Trust, a trust created by Stephan Schmidheiny to further sustainable development through alliances between successful and responsible businesses and philanthropic organizations that promote leadership and innovation.

MISSION

To contribute to sustainable development in Latin America by encouraging productive alliances based on trust among social and business leaders and by brokering consensus around agendas for action.

VISION

We seek a prosperous, integrated, and democratic Latin America,inspired in its diversity, built in solidarity by its citizens, and known globally for its own model of sustainable and inclusive development.
We want to be recognized as an effective and innovative organization that contributes to the sustainable development of Latin America.

STRATEGY

To achieve our mission...

We focus on four areas: Equity of Opportunities, Democratic Governance and the Rule of Law, Sustainable Economic Development,and Conservation and Management of Natural Resources.

We identify the best opportunities to ally ourselves with leaders from civil society and the business sector in shared initiatives promoting sustainable development.

We strengthen our partners, creating spaces in which they can build partnerships and communicate their messages of change to a larger audience.

We promote links of trust, shared values, and common agendas between civil society and the business sector.

We encourage the collective construction of shared agendas for action that effectively promote sustainable development.