In recent years local development has represented a decentralization process, together with State restructuration, democracy and citizen participation, a process involving forces from different and contradictory sectors. These sectors have criticized the centralized State model. On one hand, the neoliberal sector proposes the restructuration of the State-society, fundamentally through State withdrawal from its traditional role as a redistributor, and through the creation of conditions necessary for growth and the establishment of a free market in which competition, viewed as insertion into the world market, is vital. On the other hand, sectors opposed to liberalism propose resizing the State by bringing it closer to citizens, optimizing its role and facilitating societies democratization, specially in its relationship with the most poor.In practice, these two trends of thought are based on two different paradigms. The first, according to the predominance of economic science and management, assumes gross profits as ultimate goals as well as mechanically transferring companies theories and practices to society as a whole, including the State. As mentioned by Omar Aktouf, the ultimate word of this paradigm is the word free: free market, free enterprise, free labour, free competition. The second trend of thought, understood as a concerted effort, as a new concept of localization and of social economy, updates proximity by linking it not only to community connections but also and fundamentally to voluntary social regroupings.This situation is not unknown to organizations. On the contrary, organizations reflect these aspects and consequently, it is relevant to look at how they express themselves, in an effort to make proposals regarding these different points of view. To support our approach, we shall use Professor Lionel Vallées system which states that any society is built (development is some form of construction) upon four elements: material goods production, immaterial goods production, social relationships and political aspects. The possibility of measuring local development taking into account these four aspects is the premise on which this thesis is based, in reference to the observation of an organization representative of the Manabí province in Ecuador.Having said this, this thesis will investigate how this organization has fulfilled its role as facilitator of local development , and more precisely through analyzing each of the four aspects and taking into account (i) the impact of factors derived from an hegemonic world model; (ii) the role of the Ecuadorian State, in general, and State organizations like the CRM, in particular, in the local development of the Manabi province; (iii) the characteristics of CRMs internal management and its impact on local development; (iv) the consequences of immaterial elements (in a province with a strong collective identity) and social relationships on local development of the province.