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Yemen Egypt: EU project steps up efforts to introduce resource efficient practices for SMEs in the food sector
August 26, 2016
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A group of 23 staff from 10 selected demonstration companies from the Egyptian manufacturing food sector, had the opportunity to take part in the first workshop on environmental and resource efficient production practices organised under as part of the Med Test II project, funded by the EU under the SwitchMed programme.
The workshop was held in Cairo under the lead of UNIDO and the national partner for MED TEST II, the Egyptian National Cleaner Production Center (ENCPC). It gave the opportunity to national trained MED TEST II service providers to apply their newly learned capacities in Resource Efficiency & Cleaner Production (RECP), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), Environmental Management Accounting (EMA), and Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA), to selected staff from the Egyptian food sector.
The selected companies from the food sector were given the fundamental aspects in how to utilise tools of the TEST approach into the manufacturing processes of their production facilities in order to save costs and reduce wastage. Introducing the best available techniques for this sector, along with the tools from TEST, gives the SMEs of the Egyptian food sector an opportunity to strengthen their competitiveness by reducing costs for energy and resources, safeguarding the economic stability of their businesses, and to increase their environmental performance.
The SwitchMed sustainable consumption and production programme aims to promote a switch of the Mediterranean economies towards sustainable consumption and production patterns and green economy, including low emission development, through demonstration and dissemination of methods that improve resource and energy efficiency. It also seeks to minimise the environmental impacts associated to the life cycle of products and services, and, as opportune, to promote renewable energy.
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