Representatives from SMEP and the Catchgreen project, recently traveled to Kenya to observe the piloting of their biodegradable compostable fishing nets used in a local Kenyan seaweed farming initiative as well as in a coral restoration project. Read more here about this remarkable collaboration.
This hybrid workshop, which took place on 17-18 August, 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya, was sponsored by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and co-organized by UNCTAD, the Technical University of Kenya (TUK), the Kenyan State Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development and the Tanners Association of Kenya (TAK).
SMEP funds new manufacturing pilot projects to address organic waste challenges, which involve repurposing waste as inputs for new value chains, as well as to test wastewater treatment technologies across a range of industrial sectors in Kenya.
The SMEP Call for Concepts for Piloting solutions that address manufacturing pollution in East Africa opened on July 18th 2022; the deadline for submitting concepts is Thursday, September 15th, 2022, at 13:00 GMT. All concepts for solutions that show potential for uptake and scaling to address pollution generated by the manufacturing sector will be …
The SMEP Call for Concepts for Piloting solutions that address manufacturing pollution in East Africa opened on July 18th 2022, and will close on September 15th 2022, at 13:00 GMT. SMEP seeks to fund concepts that pilot innovative investible pollution mitigation concepts that create viable business cases around the following thematic areas: Concepts that contribute …
Starting in July 2022, the SMEP programme will launch a staggered set of open calls for innovative projects to reduce or eliminate waste and manufacturing pollution in target countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Projects should result in either proof of concept or a piloted solution, or both. A two-stage application process will be …
The tool helps governments and businesses understand how exports are hurting the local environment, so they can better align environmental, trade and industrial policies Every year, many developing countries export billions of dollars in manufactured products all over the world. Bangladesh, for example, exports jute yarn for the textile industry. For every ton of …
Dashboard shows environmental impacts of exports from African and South Asian countries Read More »
The uptake of productive capacities by developing countries has delivered important economic and social gains. But as productive capacities increase, countries often incur various types of air, soil, and water pollution as a consequence of manufacturing in response to domestic and foreign demand. The resulting impacts of pollution on the local environment and human health imposes …
Research Seminar: Tackling Manufacturing Pollution in the South Read More »
