Events

Project METABUILD’s goal is to increase resource efficiency while decreasing environmental impacts and the costs for 400 SMEs in the metal sector from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. It will be achieved through providing technical support from international as well as local experts. 80 metal SMEs, who are in the supply chain of the construction sector, is the target of Sri Lanka.

The nine-day Training of Trainers (ToT) workshop for the METABUILD project teams from India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh was held on 6-14 December 2016 in New Delhi, India. The training was organised by The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI), India together with STENUM Asia and AREC. The workshop was attended by more than 40 participants from the National Cleaner Production Centre (NCPC) Sri Lanka, the Society for Environmental and Economic Development (SEED) Nepal, the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry Bangladesh (DCCI) and the international project partners.

The METABUILD project team reviewed the current status of the project and discussed next steps during the second partners’ meeting held on 26 September 2016. The meeting took place six months after the project’s kick-off with some partners meeting in TERI’s office in Delhi, India, and others joining via Skype.

For each target country, the local partners presented the current status of project implementation. Based on a cross-check with the overall project plan, the METABUILD team is happy to announce that the following targets have already been achieved:

From 20 to 25 September 2016, the METABUILD training-of-trainers (ToT 1) for Bangladesh was carried out at Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI). 15 local consultants and two local technical experts completed the first of two trainings on resource efficient cleaner production (RECP).