Grupo FARO (Foundation for the Advance of Reforms and Opportunities), is an independent, nonprofit and secular think tank.
in 2009, Grupo FARO was awarded a grant by the Think Tank Initiative -a global programme funded by IDRC, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, DFID and DGIS.
[citation needed] In 2012 it was working with Anita Rivas as she tried to handle the impact of extractive industry in her area.
[1] A proposal to stop oil drilling in exchange for money was abandoned in 2013 after the president found that, despite all of the offers of international support, less than 0.5 per cent of the funds required to mitigate lost revenue had arrived in Ecuador.
[2] Grupo FARO has established a number of national, regional and global partnerships including with: The Overseas Development Institute, the Centro de Políticas Comparadas de Educación (CPCE) at Diego Portales University in Chile, and Ecuador Mi Pais.