On 29 March - 12 April 2022, the Green Industry Platform and Global Opportunities for Sustainable Development Goals (GO4SDGs) are hosting I-GO national workshops for Latin American and the Caribbean in Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico and Colombia.
These virtual workshops aim to train the I-GO Network of SME-supporting organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean on the I-GO Assistant so that they can most effectively promote it to small and medium-sized enterprises. It will also provide an opportunity for new I-GO Network members to engage directly with each other and share experiences both during and after the workshop.
While these are national workshops for the four mentioned countries, they are in fact relevant to anyone in the overall Latin America and the Caribbean region interested to learn about the I-GO Assistant and how it can help SMEs in their country become more resource efficient.
The I-GO initiative has been developed by the Green Industry Platform to help upscale regional and national SME resource efficiency efforts. At core of the I-GO initiative is the I-GO Assistant, a rapid online SME self-assessment and navigation tool that, as a first step, produces a tailored list of recommendations on how best to approach improving the resource efficiency of a particular SME’s operations. The tool matches an SME to the most relevant resource efficiency knowledge and support services that can help it implement the recommendations, considering the SME’s resource efficiency status, geographical location and sector of activity.
As the workshops serve as the official launch of the I-GO Assistant for SMEs, it will be followed by a 4–6 month test period, during which the Green Industry Platform and I-GO Network members will actively promote the tool among key groups of SMEs to get their feedback on the functionality of the tool.
The I-GO workshops will host participants from business associations, development organizations, government agencies, NGOs, financial institutions, and country and donor representatives.
The workshops will be conducted in Spanish or Portuguese depending on the country.
Registration:
Brazil workshop
Costa Rica workshop
Mexico workshop
Colombia workshop