The Women Entrepreneurship Development Project (WEDP) AF aims to increase the earnings and employment of the female participants’ businesses in urban areas relative to a comparison group. The business operations supported through WEDP can have adverse environmental impacts. However, several projects in combination, or in combination with other government or private sector activities, could also have a larger, more significant cumulative impact. Particularly, given the nature of MSEs and their tendency to form clusters, the cumulative impacts can be considered significant. For example, a study undertaken in 2009 for the joint UNEP-UNIDO project on resource efficiency and cleaner production, i.e. Project for Promoting Resource Efficiency in SMEs (PRE-SME), highlights that such cumulative impact can be significant for SMEs in the textile and ready-made garment, and the leather processing7 & footwear sectors. These impacts may be a result of the disposal of non-hazardous and hazardous wastes and chemicals, which may not be significant when considering individual MSEs, but significant when considering them collectively. The avoidance and mitigation of cumulative impacts requires avoidance and mitigation of the negative impacts of individual businesses supported through WEDP; careful planning, based on sound technical knowledge and the requirements and implications of the businesses supported within the WEDP planning cycles. Furthermore, proper screening of subprojects using the ESMF will help to avoid and mitigate such negative environmental impacts.
Authors
- Disclosure Status
- Disclosed
- Doc Name
- Environmental and Social Management Framework
- Document Date
- 2020-11-01
- Published in
- United States of America
- Rel Proj ID
- ET-Ethiopia Women Entrepreneurship Development Project -- P122764
- Total Volume(s)
- 1
- Unit Owning
- N/A
- Version Type
- Final
- Volume No
- 1