Many developing countries and emerging economies are currently defining country-specific strategies for their economies to become more inclusive, climate-friendly, resilient and resource-efficient. However, governments often face strong economic and social pressure, and transformational policies are difficult to advocate – unless proven socially and economically viable.
This is where the project...
An emerging country like India needs to address the disproportionate and steadily increasing amount of natural resources required to sustain changing, urbanised lifestyles and raw materials for industry. With a rapidly growing economy, India is expected to have the world’s 3rd largest consumer market by 2020, with a global consumption...
The underlying economic conditions for growth that is inclusive, environmentally sustainable and conducive to employment creation are a basic prerequisite for generating income and bringing about a permanent reduction in poverty. Issues such as how best to promote growth that is socially, environmentally and economically sustainable are increasingly at the...
Strengthening private sector capacity to adapt to climate change: focus on micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in developing countries
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humankind.
Because of their geographical location and weak infrastructure, developing countries and emerging economies bear the brunt of the consequences of...
The Promotion of Green Economic Development (ProGED) Programme supports the Philippines in mastering the challenge towards sustainable and inclusive growth. ProGED targets micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) which are the backbone of the country’s economy by putting a special emphasis on the tourism sector. In many cases, these MSMEs...
The programme Sustainable Regional Economic Growth and Investment (SREGIP) tackles the inclusive and environmentally sustainable development of Indonesian value chains by focusing on agro-business and tourism. Currently, value added, inclusiveness and environmental sustainability of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and smallholder farmers in selected regions and sectors are insufficient (core...
The Ukrainian Government has recognised the need for economic structural change and hence commissioned its Economic Research Institute to develop a concept for a green economy strategy. In principle, the government’s intention is to promote the necessary economic structural changes to move towards more energy-efficient and environmentally sound production. The...
The programme supports the Vietnamese government with developing and implementing macro-economic reforms for an environmentally and socially inclusive growth pattern. In this regard, Vietnam’s Green Growth Strategy (VGGS) serves as a cornerstone and benchmark. GIZ provides strategic advice, capacity development as well as methodological support to the Vietnamese government to...
The Government of Vanuatu (GoV) has prioritized, through its National Energy Roadmap (NERM), developing projects that utilize energy as a driver of inclusive green growth and poverty reduction in rural communities. GGGI is supporting these efforts through the Green and Inclusive Energy Reform project, which is:
The Government of Indonesia (GoI) recognized that to become one of the top ten largest economies in the world by 2025, in an inclusive and environmentally sustainable way Indonesia will need to reduce GHG emissions and the deforestation that significantly contributes to emissions, while creating financial value for the considerable...