Projects
Assessment of Educational Attainment of People in the Riverine/Chars Areas of River Brahmaputra & Creation of Village Resource Database in Assam with GIS interface, using mobile application
February 15, 2021
| Ongoing project
| Environment
Under this study date is to be collected on community resources of approximately 25,372 revenue villages across 33 districts of Assam by dividing into 10 data collection zones. The data to be collected using a mobile application which will be synced on a cloud-based server on real-time. The main objectives are to:
National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE) Mission Support Contract - Natural Resources Protection: Technical Support for Environmental Economics Research and Analysis
February 1, 2021
| Ongoing project
Cities in developing countries and economies in transition struggle to develop effective waste management projects due to a range of financial barriers. These include limited awareness of financing options; lack of capacity to develop and execute contracts with the private sector; and limited access to certain types of financial support.
Independent monitoring of mechanized road sweeping operation
January 27, 2021
| Ongoing project
| Waste
The objective of this study will be to conduct an independent monitoring of mechanised road sweeping (MRS) operation in North Delhi Municipal Corporation area as a third party and identify gaps and deficiencies in the existing system and suggest possible corrective actions.
Reclamation of aluminium waste (red mud) through developing vegetation cover at Hindalco, Muri, Ranchi
January 22, 2021
| Ongoing project
| Land
Developing green cover at the red mud and convert the red mud deposits, which is inhospitable for plants, to a substrate which will allow them to grow and develop by improving its physical and physico-chemical conditions, and removing the inhibiting substances by means of low-cost additives and treatments.
Towards more sustainable and regenerative rainfed agriculture in India and Ethiopia
January 1, 2021
| Ongoing project
| Resources & Sustainable Development
FOLU India Sustainable Rainfed Agriculture Programme (FISRAP) is part of the FOLU Coalition and World Resources Institute programme – “Towards More Sustainable and Regenerative Rainfed Agriculture in India and Ethiopia - An effective approach to sustainably transform agricultural practices and deliver social and economic co-benefits”, a project supported by I
Facilitating Green Economic Recovery: Improving the uptake of cleaner technologies among MSMEs in Eastern India
January 1, 2021
| Ongoing project
| Energy Efficiency
In Eastern India, the states of West Bengal and Jharkhand have a large number of energy intensive metallurgical and engineering clusters and industrial parks. Industries like foundry, forging, steel rolling, wire drawing, galvanizing and other mixed engineering units are concentrated in this region.
European Union Resource Efficiency Initiative Phase II
January 1, 2021
| Ongoing project
| Waste
The objective of this programme is to support the Global Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP)
agenda driven by the UN by supporting India in the implementation of this agenda and to promote EU
standards and business best practices on resource efficiency in this process.
Capacity development trainings/ workshops related to plastic waste management through in the cities of Haridwar and Rishikesh
December 24, 2020
| Ongoing project
| Waste
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) has joined hands with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH to support the reduction of plastic waste entering the environment of the two Ganga cities Haridwar and Rishikesh in Uttarakhand, India.
Hybrid microbial and chemical catalysis to develop high-volume, high-value biopolymers from lignin-rich bio-residue generated in rice straw bio-refinery' under Start-up
December 17, 2020
| Ongoing project
| Sustainable Agriculture
A novel bioprocess development for lignin-rich bio-residue valorization to produce high-value/high-volume biochemicals and bioproducts. The model developed here will improve the sustainability of the 2G ethanol technology and offer an alternative solution to mitigate environmental pollution from rice straw burning in the fields.
Scoping and needs assessment related to environmental technologies for reduction of air pollution in three selected cities
December 16, 2020
| Ongoing project
| Air
The overall objective of the consultancy services is to facilitate GIZ and the project partners to take a decision on the scope of application of environmental technologies for reduction of air pollution.
Specific objectives of the consultancy services are to: