Project Database

The objective of the Financing Energy Efficiency at Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Project for India is to increase demand for energy efficiency investments in target micro, small and medium enterprise clusters and to build their capacity to access commercial finance. There are four components to the project, the...

The primary objective of the proposed project is to reverse the process of degradation of the natural resource base and improve the productive potential of natural resources and incomes of the rural households in the project areas. The secondary objective is to support policy and institutional development to harmonize watershed...

The Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development represented by the Permanent Secretariat of the National Council for Environment and Sustainable Development organized, in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), a national workshop on “Green Economy and Environmental Accounting” in Ouagadougou, Burkina...

PAGE aims to contribute to the transformation of national economic structures in developing countries with the ultimate intention to achieve environmental sustainability, decent job creation, reduced poverty, and improved human well-being. PAGE is designed as a multi-year initiative that initially will deploy the expertise of its key partners to progressively...

Since 2012, the Bank has been providing technical assistance to its regional member countries for engaging on a green growth pathway. As part of this technical assistance project, the Sierra Leonean authorities requested the Bank to assist government officials and national stakeholders to consider key challenges and identify major opportunities...

This project aimed to broaden and refocus national and international policy agendas to improve prospects for enhancing technology development, diffusion and transfer. It was designed to translate the latest academic insights into policy, explore national and international instruments for advancing technology and examine technology value chains as case studies of...

Increasing global demand for biomass has increased pressure on the agricultural sector and food production in the past decade, especially in Africa. Concepts to increase food security while attending growing demands for non-food biomass and developing alternative biomass sources are still in their infant stages. BiomassWeb aims therefore at contributing...

Increasing global demand for food and energy and the prospect of a forest conservation mechanism in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change represent major opportunities and challenges for bioeconomy development at tropical forest margins. Tropical forests are both a source of new agricultural land and providers of global...

Sustainable development will strongly depend on the secure and safe availability of food, water, energy, and industrial raw materials, which will increasingly be based on renewable resources. In this rapidly evolving context, the fundamental challenge is to frame the reliance on biomass without undermining the long-term productivity of agriculture and...

The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) recognizes that environmental sustainability and inclusive growth are critical for Ethiopia to reach middle-income status by 2025 and achieve poverty reduction goals outlines in the country’s Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP). In support of these goals, the GoE launched the Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE)...