📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: CARE Austria, Association for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid
Country: Cambodia Contract type: EU supplementary financing Project start: 13.12.2024 Funding amount: € 83.300,00 End: 12.12.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
The project objective is to implement sustainable packaging and effective, sustainable waste management practices that contribute to the reduction of environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in Cambodia.
Expected results
1: Sustainable and profitable business models for food packaging are tested and examined for cost/benefit;
2: Sustainable business models for waste management and plastic recycling are tested and examined for cost/benefit;
3: Sustainable models for food packaging and waste management are promoted through awareness-raising campaigns. The focus is on sustainable consumption and production.
4: Resource mobilization for the replication and scaling of successful business models should be achieved by promoting the interest of various financial institutions.
Target group / Beneficiaries
- At least 10 (total 200) shopkeepers and street vendors in the vicinity of 4 selected garment factories, mainly selling food and beverages;
- About 1,000 (total 20,000) factory workers (90% women) who buy plastic-wrapped goods every day;
- The management of the 4 target factories;
- At least 3 waste management companies, 4 waste depots and 4 plastic waste processing companies that will be supported by the project in developing profitable and sustainable business models;
- At least 4 (total 80) informal waste collectors (Edjai);
- 2 (total 32) community facilitators mobilized from local youth and trained in sustainable packaging and waste management practices;
- Government officials from various ministries who will gain access to experiences and practical solutions through the project;
- Funders such as GIZ, GERES, TAFTAC, EuroCham, local civil society organizations and financial institutions that participate in the project's advocacy efforts and develop local capacities to access international financing opportunities.
Activities
- Analysis of current food packaging practices;
- Development of sustainable alternative models;
- Testing of the models by 200 salespeople for 18 months (including cost-benefit analysis);
- Creating an informed basis for further developing models and information for the private and public sectors, financial institutions and donors;
- Development and testing of sustainable waste management systems;
- Cooperation with informal waste collectors (Edjai);
- Edjai's use of an app to collect and sell more recyclable waste;
- Communication and awareness-raising public relations measures;
- Conducting research on CO2 reduction in the project areas;
- Development of business models as a basis for future partnerships between green financial institutions and local public/private investors;
- A working group created by the project connec
