Projects

National Quality System in Ghana, Phase II

01.01.2013 - 31.12.2018

The program aims at improving the capacity of conformity assessment institutions to enable them to provide world class services in the area of standardization, testing, certification and inspection for key export value chains (fruit/vegetables, cocoa, fish products, wood). These value chains will act as drivers for an improved national quality system and have an important poverty reduction potential. Apart from "traditional" quality and health safety standards, the program will also support the uptake and implementation of private voluntary standards by producers.

Tax Reform Common Fund Mozambique, Phase II

01.01.2013 - 31.12.2021

This project supports Mozambique in its effort to increase domestic financing in parallel of receiving budget support in order to become less dependent on foreign aid. Mozambique shows a strong growth performance in the last years, underpinned by a strong tax collection.

Environmental and social financial standards in Asia

01.12.2012 - 31.12.2018

Developing the human resources of financial institutions in order to create sound, efficient, and responsive financial institutions that are environmentally and socially sustainable can help achieve substantial business benefits.

Education for Employment program

01.12.2012 - 30.06.2017

The E4E program is to provide Arab Youth in the client countries in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) with skills that are relevant to the marketplace, so that Arab Youth can earn a better future. The program is implemented by the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

Gostivar Water Supply, North Macedonia

01.11.2012 - 31.12.2019

The project will improve the water supply system of the City of Gostivar and 8 neighboring villages (in total 61’000 people) and strengthen the strategic planning skills of the municipal public utilities.

Farmforce - Digitalisation for Farmers

05.10.2012 - 31.12.2016

Farmforce's objective is to remove trade barriers for smallholding farmers and to use the power of technology to revolutionize how market-linkage and value chain projects are managed. It provides real-time management information to all stakeholders in the value chain, simplifies the monitoring of sustainability standards as well as the traceability of a product and it reduces transaction costs within the whole process.

It is expected that more farmers can be included in market linkage initiatives and that farmers achieve better agronomy practices which lead to higher productivity and quality.

Competitive Industries and Innovation Program

03.10.2012 - 31.03.2022

Competitiveness strategies have recently gained renewed attention by focusing on specific industries. They target policies and public investments, catalyze private investments, and foster innovation systems with a view to growing those industries and therefore supporting job creation.

Micro, Small, and Medium Entreprise Technical Assistance Facility

01.10.2012 - 31.12.2018

The joint World Bank/IFC Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise ("MSME") program for the Middle-East and North Africa Region is a multi-donor technical assistance facility ("the Facility") that aims to improve access to finance for MSMEs, promote sustainable job creation, and encourage private-sector led growth in six countries: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and West Bank & Gaza.

Sustainable Tourism for SDGs, Phase I

01.10.2012 - 30.04.2022

The Program promotes sustainable tourism practices. Through better informed tourism stakeholders and more certified businesses, the contribution of the tourism sector to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be increased. Tourism has the potential to contribute, directly or indirectly to all of the SDGs.

Trade with Organic and Fair Trade Cotton, Phase III

01.10.2012 - 31.12.2016

This consolidation phase continues to aim at alleviating poverty of small and medium sized cotton farmers through the development of certified organic and fair trade cotton value chains for the international market. The focus will be on assuring the economic and institutional viability of the program

Information System on Voluntary Sustainability Standards

20.08.2012 - 31.12.2017

Overall, the program aims to enable different stakeholder groups producers, traders, public procurers, private company buyers as well as end consumers - to take informed decisions with regard to the use and effects of Voluntary Sustainabiliy Standards (VSS). The program consists of four major components to be implemented by five institutions, in close coordination with each other. 1) Database management: Consolidation of all data necessary for the different project components in one, central database named T4SD (Trade for Sustainable Development) located at the International Trade Center (ITC). This allows to create a highly credible data pool on sustainability standards, unique with regard to both quality and depth. 2) Impact measurement: Promoting harmonized and extensively tested methodologies developed by the Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA) to measure the impact of sustainability standards for different agricultural commodities. 3) Capacity building: Promotion of coordinated and harmonized forms of capacity building at production level through the Sustainable Commodity Assistance Network (SCAN) project and the creation of an interactive capacity building resource platform. 4) Information dissemination: Reach a broad audience with the data and information available through the respective platforms of the State of Sustainability Initiatives (SSI) and the Kompass Nachhaltigkeit to promote informed decision making.

Africa Leasing Facility

01.07.2012 - 31.12.2017

The objective of the Africa Leasing Facility II is to facilitate increased access to finance for micro, small and medium enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa by developing a sustainable leasing industry. Leasing is an alternative means for enterprises that are not creditworthy to access finance.