Abbreviation FEPLP Legal status Civil Association | Formation 1993 | |
Purpose promoting private business development Location Chamber of Commerce Building, 1392 Mariscal Santa Cruz Avenue, 8th floor, Office # 801, La Paz, Bolivia. | ||
The Federation of Private Entrepreneurs of La Paz (Federación de Empresarios Privados de la Paz, FEPLP), is a civil association, independent and autonomous, that represents all the private business in the Department of La Paz, Bolivia. A non-profit organization, the Federation of Private Entrepreneurs of La Paz was founded on November 25, 1993, as a result of the necessity to protect and represent private entrepreneurs and their chambers in La Paz, as well as to promote economic and social development in La Paz.
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About the FEPLP
As a membership organization, FEPLP´s lobby and advocacy efforts are on behalf of private chambers and business associations. Since March 24, 2011, the President of the Federation of Private Entrepreneurs of La Paz has been Dr. Luis Urquizo Valdivia, and the current Executive Director is Soraya Fernández Jáurgeui. President Urquizo's priorities involve increasing private sector participation in the development of La Paz, as well as looking for public and private partnerships to achieve this goal.
The FEPLP´s mission is to group and lead business organizations in the Department of La Paz, offer support, and represent their interests through the creation of initiatives that promote the environment for economic growth.
2012 FEPLP affiliates include:
2013 FEPLP affiliates include:
Recent initiatives
In 2011, the FEPLP was part of the jury panel for the Business Award "La Paz - Leader" 2011 "Promoting productivity and business competitiveness"
From 2011 to 2012, the FELPLP worked on the initiative Forum for the Development of the Department of La Paz, A partnership with government entities, foundations, and other organizations to undertake and design actions to articulate all different levels of government and public entities, and to prioritize actions that would lead to the development of La Paz. The main participants were: the Association of Organizations of Ecological Producers of Bolivia (la Asociación de Organizaciones de Productores Ecológicos de Bolivia, AOPEB), the Joint Committee of Campesino Economic Organizations (Coordinadora Integral de Organizaciones Económicas Campesinas, CIOEC), the Federation of Private Entrepreneurs of La Paz (FEPLP), the government of La Paz, the Jubilee Foundation, the University of San Andrés (Universidad de San Andrés), and the Autonomous Government of the Municipality of La Paz (Gobierno Autónomo Municipal de La Paz, GAMLP),). The FEPLP then coordinated roundtables to further discuss the topics concluded at the Forum. The priority areas taken into consideration were energy, tourism, textiles, water, organic food production, and the importance of improving productive supply chains.
Some of the sponsors of the Forum were the Embassy of Denmark, PNUD Art Bolivia, Al Invest IV Region Andina, and National Chamber of Commerce, Bolivia.