Juan Diego Villacis
Ten resources built from running multi-stakeholder platforms in the Ecuadorian Amazon, shipping goods to Europe, and sitting across the table from DFIs. Not theory. The scaffolding that survived contact with reality.
Governance & Coordination
Most die within two years. The problem is never funding. It is that nobody designed the governance architecture before the first meeting.
Design your multi-stakeholder platform in one page. Eight structural questions that determine whether 22 organizations will coordinate or just meet quarterly until everyone stops coming.
02Full replication guide. Governance architecture, constitutive agreements, management model, and the part nobody writes about: the political choreography of getting organizations to commit.
03Week-by-week operator's playbook. First meeting design. How to handle the government official who wants to control everything. What breaks in week four.
04Map who actually holds influence before the first meeting. Built for contexts where legitimacy, authority, and funding live in different organizations.
Funding & Finance
The same project gets funded or rejected based on framing. I have written proposals and reviewed them. The gap between those two chairs is where most indigenous organizations get stuck.
What grant reviewers actually evaluate. Before-and-after examples of framing the same conservation project for GEF, IDB, and EU mechanisms. The difference is never the project. It is the language.
06Fifteen questions that tell you whether your indigenous fund can receive direct DFI funding. And if it cannot, exactly which administrative and governance gaps are blocking it.
07What indigenous organizations need to graduate from sub-awardee to direct DFI recipient. What "administrative capacity" means in practice, not in theory.
Bioeconomy & Trade
Nine containers to Spain. $270K in EU revenue. 50+ smallholder families coordinated. Every certification, every cost, every customs failure. The supply chain nobody maps.
Every step from smallholder family to European retail. Certifications, timelines, costs, logistics. Built from doing it, not from reading the regulations.
09Every EUDR guide is written by European law firms for importers. This one is written by an exporter who shipped nine containers. What traceability looks like when your producers are smallholder families.
10How conservation projects actually get financed. How concessional capital, first-loss layers, guarantees, and revenue streams stack. From four published playbooks on exactly this.
Publications
Four investor-facing playbooks and governance frameworks published between 2025 and 2026. The research behind the tools above.
A deal design framework that embeds Indigenous governance directly into the architecture of market partnerships. Core thesis: deal design beats good intentions.
2025Proposes Cooperation Tables as locally-owned multi-stakeholder platforms. Draws from the Morona Santiago model, Sucumbios replication, and ASHA. Written for MDBs.
2025Investor's playbook for five high-potential value chains in the Ecuadorian bioeconomy. Cacao, guayusa, wild superfoods, paiche, bamboo. De-risking architecture and co-creation models.
2025Framework for structuring climate projects to attract institutional capital. Capital Stack Blueprint, Regenerative Opportunity Matrix, Climate PPP model. Ecuador needs $3.7B annually.