Development Partnerships with the private sector (develoPPP) based in Thailand

The engagement of the private sector is necessary to achieve goals of development cooperation. The targeted fields of cooperation development are overlapping with those of the private sector e.g. environment, education, health, agriculture, water and energy supply. The partnerships with the industry sector (www.develoPPP.de) initiated by BMZ combine the interests and use the strengths of the partners.

Sustainable development needs the involvement of the private sector, not only in the Federal Republic of Germany but also in the partner countries of BMZ. Enterprises create jobs, secure income, provide technical know-how and introduce new technologies.

Companies from Germany and other European countries, operating in developing countries, face particular challenges e.g. prospective businesses are often confronted with legal certainties, poor training and education, ineffective administrative structures or insufficient infrastructures. .

Projects

Recently, there are 3 PPP projects in Thailand:

With Merck: GIZ and Merck KGaA set a common objective on waste management for laboratory chemical packaging in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. Hazardous waste and chemicals are often disposed with normal municipal waste due to lack of knowledge in managing hazardous waste substances. The PPP aims to establish environmental-friendly disposal and recycling systems for used chemical packaging materials and chemicals from laboratories.

With South Pole: The project is to enhance the availability of monitoring and verification systems for biogas plant operators such as in the agro-industry in Thailand. The newly developed interface is capable to read various monitoring equipments and allows the control of the biogas plant performance to increase the plant efficiency . At the same time the interface ensures the required reporting for verification of the CDM project.. Target groups are owners of biogas plants, biogas plant technology suppliers and operation and monitoring service providers.

With Archimedes: The objective is to develop the holistic standard of sustainable constructions in Thailand. To achieve this, the originally in Germany developed DGNB standard criteria will be adapted to the conditions of Thailand. Awareness raising and knowledge transfer from the DGNB-System shall create ownership of the internationally recognized Thai standard at the target groups such as. real estate companies, construction companies, investors and facility managers.- The audit process will be established and training programmes for architects, engineers and auditors will be developed.

Contact

Mr. Torsten Fritsche
E-mail: torsten.fritsche@giz.de.