MBF’s work falls within a framework of stringent quality control systems that required annual financial and management audits since its beginnings (1988). These inspections where conducted by international renowned auditing companies.
The MBF’s management quality control systems are endorsed by the international norm ISO 9000. By fulfilling the world requirements of this norm, beginning December 8, 2003, after a process that lasted several months, the SGS United Kingdom Ltd. granted the MBF the ISO 9001:2000 certification, endorsed also by UKAS Quality Management.
With this certification, the MBF is the first environmental NGO in Paraguay and one of the first in Latin America to achieve this recognition.
The certification has been conferred to activities relating to BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, placing the institution at a level of efficiency that very few organizations worldwide have achieved, especially concerning to management of protected areas and improvement of the quality of life, as a result of the mere existence of biodiversity.
ISO 9000 norms are a conjunction of international norms and directives for quality management that since its initial publication in the year 1897, has obtained worldwide reputation as the foundation for the establishment of management quality systems.
Even though the quality management system had been originally an instrument conceived for industrial development, international trade and consumer protection;
by adopting this technology into the MBF’s management system, the team of technicians and professionals have had to develop new capacities, improving the level of management and changing some protocols relating to work.
This event is responsible for the change in relationship paradigms and overall work. Through a series of planned and systematic actions, there has been a transition from an active and efficient management style in the areas administrated by the MBF to a management that guarantees confidence and security of services, which also abides to the quality requirements that make the ecosystems functional and sustainable.
With this certification, in other words, by declaring that our actions abide to the functionality and environmental and social standards and in some cases economic standards, we not only assure the fulfillment of our objectives, but also incorporate preventive action concepts, coherent with the management policies. Also, we can show our outcomes, in this sense; we can be audited by an independent third party, which demonstrates that we have a dynamic and updated system.
