Where We Work

The Cleaner Technologies Program works globally, leveraging IFC's network across the developing world. Below you will find illustrations of our work in different regions.

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Sustainable forestry - Assistance to a leading FSC-certified forest products company to develop new revenue streams from its timber and land holdings in South Africa.
• Healthy drinking water – Investment to help expand a distributed, low cost, potable water service provider targeting emerging markets and using an innovative ultra-violet (UV) technology platform in India, Sri-Lanka, Philippines and Ghana.
• Cleaner Production - Grant to undertake an energy and water audit of a hotel's operations in Mali and Burkina Faso.
• Irrigation foot pump – Assistance to a hand-operated irrigation pump manufacturer to accelerate commercialization and get access to local debt in Tanzania.

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East Asia and the Pacific

• Recycling plastics from electronics - Investment to help finance a start-up which recycles the high grade plastics from electronics and white goods in Guangzhou, China.
• Waste water treatment - Investment to help finance a new wastewater treatment technology for straw pulp mills, with a pilot project in China.
• Healthy drinking water – Investment to help expand a distributed, low cost, potable water service provider targeting emerging markets and using an innovative ultra-violet (UV) technology platform in India, Sri-Lanka, Philippines and Ghana.
• Renewable energy - Grant to co-finance consultant expenses associated with technical review, regulatory, policy and project structuring advisory services to develop the first Mongolian wind farm, a 30-50 MW project near Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

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Central and Eastern Europe

• Recycling tire and rubber waste – Assistance to establish tire recycling for leading tire manufacturer in Serbia and Montenegro.
• Sustainable agribusiness – Assistance to an organic, fair trade producer of medicinal herbs and health products derived from traditional recipes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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Latin America and the Caribbean

• Cleaner Production - Grant for wastewater treatment review of two sugar mills in Colombia.
• Sustainable forestry –Grant to an FSC-certified forest products company to develop new revenue streams from its timber and land holdings in Brazil.
• Cleaner transport - Grant to support trial operation of two CNG buses to reduce emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases from buses in the City of Mexico.
• Sustainable agribusiness - Grant to cover the cost of a market feasibility study for an early stage mariculture company that has developed a proprietary technology to commercially raise Queen Conch in the Caribbean.
• Cleaner Production – Grant to pilot a new water recovery technology in a leading mineral lime producer in Mexico.

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South Asia

• Cleaner transport - Investment in first electric car manufacturer in India.
• Cleaner energy – Investment to partially finance the beta-testing of a new low cost gas turbine and expansion of mini-steam turbine production to introduce cogeneration to more industries in India.
• Healthy drinking water – Investment to help expand a distributed, low cost, potable water service provider targeting emerging markets and using an innovative ultra-violet (UV) technology platform in India, Sri-Lanka, Philippines and Ghana.

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Middle East and North Africa

• Cleaner Production - Grant to undertake a water audit for a textile factory in Pakistan.

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