Nachhaltiges Management betrieblicher Ressourcen in Klein- und Mittelbetrieben, Nicaragua



Contract partner: UNIDO - United Nations Industrial Development Organization Country: Nicaragua Funding amount: € 649.750,00 Project start: 01.03.2006 End: 31.10.2009

Short Description:

Overall goal


The project aims at enhancing the competitiveness and productivity of industry in Nicaragua, promoting sustained social advance in a way compatible with environmental protection.


The project will foster the development and diffusion of Environmentally Sound Technologies (ESTs) with a special focus on solar energy in order to enhance the quality and productivity of the national industries providing them with the necessary tools that will facilitate access to national and regional markets with environmentally sound products and improving the ability of national enterprises to successfully negotiate their position in the global markets.


The project will rely upon the experience of the UNIDO's CPC (Cleaner Production Center) in Nicaragua with companies from the selected sectors. It will focus mainly on the food, metalmechanic and tourism sectors, in which the CPC has already gained significant experience through the implementation of CP (Cleaner Production) and EST measures.

The activities of the project will focus on capacity building in the development, EST development and promotions, policy advice and implementation of demonstration projects. In this manner the proposed project is responding to Goal 1, Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; Goal 7, Ensure environmental sustainability, and Goal 8, Develop a global partnership for development, of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

project number 2309-00/2006
source of funding OEZA
sector Industrie und Gewerbe
tied
modality
marker
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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