Project Database
The GGKP Project Database allows you to browse on-the-ground initiatives to promote green growth, being led by our partners and other leading organisations. To suggest a project to be added to the database, please complete the form.
The Skills Development for a Green Economy (SD4GE) Programme focuses on supporting the Dual System Pilot Project (DSPP) to help the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) to replicate dual occupational programmes. It is a pilot of an integrated dual training programme for electricians and plumbers: it will combine...
The production of coffee is an integral part of the history and identity of Costa Rica. It also contributes 9% of the national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, generating 25% of the emissions originated by the agriculture sector. To reach the Costa Rican goal of carbon neutrality in 2021, and contribute...
Costa Rica has set itself the aim of becoming carbon neutral by 2021. As a result, it is committed to adopting policies sustainably and over the long-term that will help reduce emissions. This politically ambitious goal requires making a tremendous effort as well as using demanding, innovative approaches – particularly as emissions in key sectors are currently on the rise.
The GIZ Working Group on Sustainable Industrial Areas (SIA) was established in 2006. Members of the Working Group are GIZ experts who are involved in related projects that contribute – despite thematic differences – to the overall objective Eco-Industrial Development (EID).
The SIA WG, representing GIZ projects currently working worldwide...
A growing number of African countries are amongst the fastest growing economies worldwide. Still the level and speed of lifting a vast majority of the African people from poverty remains low. A key question, therefore, is how the growth can transform the African economies towards efficient and competitive engines that...
The fashion industry is booming: The design comes from Europe, the cotton from Africa or America which is processed into fabric in China, before being shipped to Bangladesh where it is sewn into the T-shirt that consumers find in the shops in Europe.
In many developing economies, the private sector is underdeveloped, unproductive, not sustainable, and unable to serve society effectively. Private sector development (PSD) aims to improve the way the private sector functions in the economy and to increase private investment in the production of goods and services and the creation of productive and decent employment.
After three decades of remarkable economic growth and improvement in social indicators, Vietnam has been recently experiencing a slow-down in poverty reduction and an increase in income inequality. In addition, the growth in Vietnam has followed a carbon-intensive path which brought huge pressures on the environment. In an effort to...
Since it introduced comprehensive policy reforms in 1990, Vietnam has developed rapidly and achieved impressive economic growth. This growth entailed the extensive use of labor, natural resources and capital and led to the current reality of low energy/resource efficiency and rising pollution levels. In response, Viet Nam adopted a National...
In Mexico, the pollution created within cities and by the industrial sector is currently estimated to cost the economy almost seven per cent of its gross domestic product due to the environmental damage it causes. Largely unsustainable consumer behaviour and environmentally unfriendly manufacturing processes are adding on to these environmental...