Project Description
The project establishes a Cleaner Production (CP) Facility to provide
funding and global support to build local capacity for seven regional CP
programs, each implemented and managed by a regional team responsible for
its own target and strategy. The Facility 1) assists the regions in
ramping up CP Advisory Services activities; 2) supports regional efforts
to build CP capacity, with a target of two regions by end of FY10; and 3)
creates a Knowledge Management base that will accelerate knowledge
transfer between HQ and the regions, promote the business case for CP
among real sector clients across regions and industries, and scale up CP
delivery through local financial institutions. Objectives for the regional
CP programs include: 1) encouragement of current and future IFC clients to
undertake CP audits; 2) replication of CP practices and projects among
other industry players, creating a scale effect across industrial sectors
and improving local standards; and 3) creation of investment opportunities
for IFC in the climate-change area.