New Project METABUILD: more resource efficiency for small and medium-sized Asian firms

Saving water, energy, and raw materials – with this goal in mind, adelphi will be advising businesses in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal for the next 4 years. The new project especially focuses on small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) from the metals industry and building sector. 

The METABUILD project partners had their kick-off meeting from 4 to 8 April, 2016 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. As this project is being sponsored by the SWITCH Asia programme of the European Union, as was the project ACIDLOOP (2012 to 2016), and will build on ACIDLOOP’s results and approaches, a few of the previous project partners will be back again as part of the new consortium.

At the kick-off, the partners discussed varied new approaches to expediently identifying and training local advisers who will later advise the firms on resource efficiency measures. Unlike the ACIDLOOP project, which took place in India, METABUILD will begin by implementing example measures in selected firms in order to serve as training examples for the advisers.

3 modules by adelphi: financing, policy dialogue, client dialogue

adelphi primarily brings its expertise to the three project modules: In the first module, the participating firms will be connected with banks to find appropriate means of financing their resource efficiency improvement measures. As part of the regional policy dialogue, representatives from politics and business from the three project countries will discuss how resource efficiency in industry can be further improved via policy measures. The client dialogues will allow the SMBs to enter into a discussion with their clients to inform them on how resource efficiency can manifest itself along the entire value chain.

The project METABUILD will be carried out between March 2016 and February 2020. In addition to adelphi, the project partners are TERI and Stenum Asia from India, AREC from Austria, SEED from Nepal, DCCI from Bangladesh, and the National Cleaner Production Centre from Sri Lanka.

Please find more information on the METABUILD website.