Sustainable Business

Program

WWF Myanmar

Water,

Environment

Management

Activities

Contents

• Sustainable Production: Initiatives

• Findings from pilot program

• EU Switch Asia Network

• Way forward

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Sustainable Production: Initiatives

Dec, 2016 Mar, 2017 Jun, 2017 Sept, 2017 Dec, 2017

Feb, 2017

Signed the MoUwith MFPEA

Site assessment

2018

Signed the EU Switch Asia

project

Capacity training program

Sustainable Production: Initiatives

The training program was implemented by

the collaborative effort with Myanmar Food

Processors and Exporters Association

(MFPEA) and professors/academicians form

Yangon regional Technological Universities.

4site assessments5

capacity building

workshops

1study tour in Malaysia

4different industries

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Capacity building trainingStudy tour and site assessments in

industries

Sustainable Production: Initiatives

Commercial proposal for those assessed

industries were prepared by the trained local

academicians and submitted to the businesses.

Secured for required funding through the

Responsible Business Fund (RBF).

2Commercial proposals

are developed 2projects secured required

funding

2wastewater treatment

plants implemented

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Findings from pilot programme

Water and Energy

• Gradual increase in water

pollution form increasing

industrial activities

• Loss of aquatic habitats and

impacts to ecosystem.

Private Sector

• Lack of awareness; amount of

produced wastewater and sources

of wastes

• Lack of affordable technologies

• Lack of investments to implement

required facilities

• Lack of capacities to be in

compliance with prevailing

regulations

Government

• Fewer industries follow the

prevailed national guidelines

and regulations

• Unqualified report from the

industries.

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Regulatory Enforcement to Industries

• Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation

issued notifications to 9 prioritized sectors including F&B sectors,

to submit Environmental Management Plan (EMP)

Develop a proper EMP including a systematic monitoring

plan

To establish:

a) Waste water treatment system

b) Air pollution control system (including odor)

c) Solid waste management system

d) Noise control system

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Stretching the pace!

“To adopt sustainable energy and water management

practices in Myanmar F&B industries through

supporting policies, technical knowledge, increased

capacity and access to green Finance”

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A Sustainable Future for F&B

WWF-Myanmar partnering with MFPEA and SBFIC, the new EU funded

project: “Catalyzing Sustainable Water and Energy Management in Food and

Beverage industries in the Ayeyarwady River Basin’, will strive to create an

enabling environmental for Myanmar’s F&B (SMEs) to profitably invest in

green technologies, reducing both ecological footprint and production cost.

Why F&B?

Percentage coverageFood and beverages

General

Construction material

Metal and mineral production

Clothing and apparel

Personal goods

Raw goods production

Literature and arts

Consumer goods

Automobiles

Electrical equipment

Industrial tools/equpiment production

Agriculture machinery

60%

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Stretching the pace!: EU Switch Asia

Network

• Funding: EU Switch Asia Programme

• Duration: Feb 2018 to Jan 2022

• Implementing agencies: WWF, Myanmar Food Processors and

Exportiers Association (MFPEA), Sparkassenstiftung Project

associates(SBFIC)

• Associates: Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental

Conservation(MONREC); Ministry of Industry(MoI); Myanmar

Industries Association(MIA); UMFCCI; Yangon Technological

University (YTU)

• Launching on the 29th of May.

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Project Components

• To raise the awareness of financial sectors and leverage innovative financing to catalyze bank lending to SMEs in green technologies

• To develop best practices and lessons shared among SMEs

• To equip the knowledge and capacity of 200 SMEs to implement sustainable practices

• To establish policies and guidelines for sustainable energy and water management practices

I. Policy incentives and

legislationsII. SME capacity

III. Green finance

IV. Replication

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Way Forward

“Support businesses with a strong commitment to

integrate environment sustainability into corporate

strategy and follow the business cases for biodiversity

conservation”

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WWF Myanmar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50IAIoNDBDA

Thank

You.