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SELA will hold the “Seminar on productive articulation strategies and methodologies, clusters and export consortiums: Caribbean and Central American Experiences.” With this Seminar, the Permanent Secretariat of SELA hopes to contribute to the building and strengthening of business and governmental institutional capacities for the development of productive coordination projects, such as clusters and export consortiums in Latin America and the Caribbean; disseminate information on productive articulation strategies, linkages, local productive developments and industrial districts, among other successful strategies in the region; and identify productive articulation projects in the Caribbean countries that require direct technical assistance or through cooperation that encourages partnerships among SMEs in the region.