Institution

Overview, vision and principles

A proposal to bring together the public sector, the private sector, investors, operating companies, contractors, universities and the territory’s community production organizations.

Overview

Purpose of the initiative

The Orinoco Subregion is an opportunity to drive a new stage of economic development in southern Anzoátegui State. Its location on the Orinoco River, its farming and forestry resources, its fishing, its potential for industrial processing, its ties to Venezuela’s energy sector and its road and river links are territorial assets on which a regional investment attraction strategy can be built.

The challenge is to turn those assets into profitable projects, productive jobs, local supplier chains, modern infrastructure, reliable services and sustainable revenue for the municipalities and their residents.

The proposal does not see the territory merely as a source of raw materials or a transit zone: it seeks to turn it into an integrated production platform, able to add value, attract capital, train people, grow companies, strengthen public finances and steadily raise the population’s quality of life.

The institutional initiatives, governance mechanisms, incentives and commitments presented on this portal are proposals for assessment and agreement, not benefits or guarantees to be regarded as already in force.

Positioning

Investing in the Orinoco Subregion means helping to build a production platform that connects resources, companies, talent and markets, with potential for road and river integration and opportunities for industrial expansion.

Vision

Position the Orinoco Subregion as a hub of diversified economic development — energy, agribusiness, forestry and river logistics — able to connect local production with national markets, the Caribbean and other international markets, through a stable alliance between private investment, efficient public management and the economic participation of communities.

Objectives

What the portal aims to do

Build a project portfolio

Standard profiles that tell conceptual projects apart from those that already have land, permits, studies and agreements.

Support investors

A one-stop desk that registers the initiative, identifies the competent bodies and follows it up.

Develop local suppliers

Assessment, technical upgrading, business matchmaking and performance tracking for companies in the subregion.

Train talent for productive jobs

Training linked to companies’ actual demand, with certification and a skills register.

Prepare the territory

Productive connectivity, public services, security and industrial sites, assessed transparently.

Govern for results

Ongoing institutional coordination, indicators with a baseline, and accountability.

Guiding principles

Seven principles for investment that develops the territory

Legal certainty and business confidence

Clear rules, predictable procedures and contract compliance.

Profitability with territorial development

Economically sustainable projects that create jobs, suppliers and local added value.

Public–private complementarity

The State creates enabling conditions and the private sector brings capital, technology, markets and management capacity.

Balanced development

The benefits must reach all three municipalities, taking into account their particular strengths and needs.

Environmental sustainability

Responsible use of the river, soils, forests and biodiversity.

Training and local jobs

Prepare local people to fill technical, professional, managerial and business roles.

Market integration

Competitive capacity to supply national markets and, where regulatory and logistics conditions allow, to export.

Investment scales

An investment policy based on value chains

Natural resources create opportunities, but it is the organization of production chains that turns them into wealth, jobs and competitiveness.

Anchor investments

Companies whose size and production capacity can create sustained demand for goods, services, transport and suppliers.

Complementary investments

Small and medium-sized companies that meet the needs of anchor companies and regional economic activity.

Community-based investments

Start-ups, cooperatives, production units and community enterprises integrated into formal supply chains.