Integrated Export Services for Sustainable Support of SMEs
17.06.2015
- 07.09.2019
The project aims to strengthen the competitiveness and export capacities of small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs), specifically in the wood and furniture industry as well as in the organic agriculture sector, by improving their export potential and their market diversification, thereby reducing economic disparities and contributing to the development of two of Romania's poorest regions. Currently, Romania has a low number of exporting SMEs and a limited number of innovative companies being involved in export. The project is full in line with Romania’s National Export Strategy (2014-2020) owing to Romania’s competitive advantages such as technical skills, good farmland, availability of raw materials and external demand.
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Crop Receipts Project Ukraine
01.06.2015
- 31.05.2020
The Crop Receipt project facilitates access to finance for small and midsize agri-businesses in Ukraine. Crop receipts essentially are loan agreements between a farmer and a creditor, where the loan is repaid by the future harvest or the proceeds from its sale. Given the vast untapped agriculture potential and its importance for agrarian SME development, the Crop Receipt project is key to facilitate economic inclusion of small and midsize farmers through the provision of growth capital. The project is implemented by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and was launched in 2015.
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Southeast Europe Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility
31.05.2015
- 31.05.2018
The Southeast Europe Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (henceforth, the facility) aims at addressing the problem of low private catastrophe risk insurance penetration in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegowina, Macedonia as well as Serbia. The facility was launched by the World Bank Group and is implemented by Europa Re, a private implementing agency.
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Arad public lighting with LED
28.05.2015
- 30.06.2019
In order to improve road safety and energy efficiency, a part of Arad’s public lighting system is modernized and extended. This includes the illumination of a bicycle road, a pedestrian boardwalk along the Mures River and 70 playgrounds around the City of Arad, as well as the modernization and extension of street lighting systems with LED lamps.
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ITC Trade Facilitation Programme - Support for WTO TFA Scheduling of Commitments
13.05.2015
- 31.12.2016
In order to achieve an effective and expeditious implementation of the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement and to harvest its large potential to reduce trade costs for developing countries, the ITC TF Programme supports developing countries in scheduling their commitments to the WTO, which has to be completed before the agreement's entry into force.
Khorog Solid Waste Project
01.05.2015
- 31.12.2022
The project aims at improving the current waste management in Khorog City by combining investments into modern equipment and infrastructure with strong institutional support, while taking into consideration the environmental and social circumstances.
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Pilot models for environmentally friendly collection and temporary storage of hazardous household waste
21.04.2015
- 07.12.2019
Despite existing policy and regulatory frameworks in the field of national waste management in Bulgaria, efficient solutions for the waste problem are not yet employed. In order to address this, law-conforming systems for environmentally friendly collection and temporary storage of hazardous household waste (HHW) shall be established in a pilot project covering 22 pilot municipalities.
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Environmentally sound disposal of obsolete pesticides
21.04.2015
- 07.12.2019
The project aims to support Bulgaria in the environmentally friendly disposal of several thousand tons of dangerous obsolete chemicals from the days of Communist rule and thereby removes a serious threat to public health and environment.
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Suceava public lighting with LED
02.04.2015
- 07.09.2019
In order to improve road safety and save energy, Suceava’s street lighting system was modernized and equipped with modern LED lamps and a telemanagement system.
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Institutionalization of European Energy Award
02.04.2015
- 30.06.2019
The “Energy City / European Energy Award” is a certification system for sustainable energy management in municipalities. The implementation of the related controlling process favors the optimal allocation of resources to energy relevant projects. The "European Energy Award" is a good instrument to pursue the objectives of the EU program "Covenant of Mayors" which promotes the 20/20/20 objectives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20%, improve energy efficiency by 20% and increase the share of renewable energy in the energy mix by 20%, at the level of municipalities.
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Strenghtening Small Business Membership Organisations
01.04.2015
- 30.06.2018
The business climate in Ukraine is severely hampered by an over-bearing and opaque regulatory framework and captured by powerful political and economic elites. Corruption is widespread and the economy dominated by large monopolies, often state owned. The current transition is an opportunity to break with past practices and to provide more competition and equitable participation in economic opportunities for the SME sector. The project therefore aims to support Business Membership Organizations (BMOs) in order to provide a collective voice to small businesses, to improve the regulatory environment through a public-private dialogue and to support their members in improving their operational performance.
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Natural Capital Finance Alliance
01.04.2015
- 31.12.2020
The Natural Capital Finance Alliance (NCFA) is a financial industry-led initiative aiming to quantify the risks of Natural Capital (e.g. water, soil, rainforest) in financial institutions investment and lending decisions. A methodology will be elaborated and tested at the global level and in some of Switzerland's priority countries.