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Publish Date: 3/12/18
Good Practice Note: Environmental, Health, and Safety Approaches for Hydropower Projects
This Good Practice Note is intended to be used in conjunction with other EHS Guidelines and IFC's Performance Standards to identify, avoid, mitigate, and manage EHS risks and impacts in hydropower projects.
Publish Date: 3/2/18
Good Practice Handbook on Environmental Flows for Hydropower Projects
This Good Practice Handbook provides guidance to practitioners on taking rigorous and consistent approaches to assess and manage hydropower project impacts on downstream river ecosystems and people, through the assessment and provision of environmental flows (EFlows).
Publish Date: 2/26/18
Sustainable Banking Network (SBN) Global Progress Report
The IFC-supported Sustainable Banking Network (SBN)’s first comprehensive Global Progress Report evaluates sustainable finance principles and policies in 34 member countries.
Publish Date: 1/31/18
Addressing Gender and Gender-Based Violence in IFC Projects (flyer)
This tip sheet outlines how IFC's Environmental and Social Performance Standards support gender equality and help combat gender-based violence.
Publish Date: 1/10/18
Fact Sheet: Building a Sustainable Textile and Apparel Market in Bangladesh
This fact sheet provides an overview of how IFC's advice and expertise is helping Bangladesh meet the challenges and opportunities facing the textile and apparel industries, which account for 80 percent of the country's export earnings and employ 4.5 million people, mostly women.
Publish Date: 1/3/18
Use of Alternative Fuels in the Cement Sector in Senegal: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions
This market assessment reports on alternative fuels opportunities in the cement sector in Senegal. The assessment examined different experiences and possible options to utilize municipal, commercial and industrial waste, along with tires, sewage sludge and agricultural residue in cement kilns in key production clusters.
Publish Date: 1/3/18
Use of Alternative Fuels in the Cement Sector in Ethiopia: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions
This market assessment reports on alternative fuels opportunities in the cement sector in Ethiopia. The assessment examined different experiences and possible options to utilize municipal, commercial and industrial waste, along with tires, sewage sludge and agricultural residue in cement kilns in key production clusters.
Publish Date: 10/20/17
Good Practice Note: Managing Contractors' Environmental and Social Performance
This Good Practice Note (GPN) is aimed at helping clients implement sound, consistent, and effective approaches, in compliance with IFC requirements, to manage the environmental and social (E&S) performance of their contractors, subcontractors, and other third parties working for the project.
Publish Date: 8/24/17
IFC's Engagement in the Apparel and Textile Sectors in Emerging Markets
IFC works with apparel businesses and brands to increase their competitiveness while promoting their performance on sustainability standards. This brochure provides an introduction to IFC's initiatives in the sector, including partnerships, such as the IFC-ILO Better Work partnership; resource efficiency; gender programs; and financial innovations, such as Global Trade Supplier Finance (GTSF).
Publish Date: 8/1/17
Increasing the Use of Alternative Fuels at Cement Plants: International Best Practice
This report, and an accompanying report on thermal and electric energy efficiency, provide a summary of international best practice experience in the cement sector and focus on specific technical measures that could be implemented by cement plants to reduce their operating costs and improve their carbon footprints. The reports provide a plethora of practical information from implemented projects and include detailed technical descriptions, estimates of capital and operating costs, as well as case studies and references from locations where the measures have been implemented. A combination of general and in-depth information will make these reports a helpful read to both management and technical and operating personnel of cement plants as well as to a larger range of stakeholders.
Publish Date: 7/31/17
Good Practice Note: IFC Life and Fire Safety: Hospitals
The Life and Fire Safety Good Practice Note on Hospitals is a guideline for investment projects in both new and existing occupancies.
Publish Date: 7/31/17
Good Practice Note: IFC Life and Fire Safety: Hotels
The Life and Fire Safety Good Practice Note on Hotels is a guideline for investment projects in both new and existing occupancies.
Publish Date: 6/27/17
Converting Biomass to Energy - A Guide for Developers and Investors
This report serves as a practical tool for developers and investors who are interested in biomass-to-energy projects and wish to assess the technical and financial feasibility of different options for their businesses and industries. It covers modern biomass-to-energy technologies where biomass derives from the agricultural, food and beverage, and wood processing sectors. It can help with the adoption of best practices in the development, construction, operation, and financing of projects in this area.
Publish Date: 6/13/17
Improving Thermal and Electric Energy Efficiency at Cement Plants: International Best Practice
This report provides a summary of international best practice experience in the cement sector and focuses on specific technical measures that could be implemented by cement plants to reduce their operating costs and improve their carbon footprints. It offers a plethora of practical information from implemented projects and includes detailed technical descriptions, capital and operating costs, and case studies and references from locations where the measures were implemented. Its information, which is both general and in-depth, can be helpful to management, technical, operating personnel of cement plants as well as to a larger range of stakeholders.
Publish Date: 4/11/17
Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines for Liquefied Natural Gas Facilities
The EHS Guidelines for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Facilities include information relevant to LNG base load liquefaction plants, transport (by sea and land), storage, regasification (including floating storage regasification units), peak shaving terminals, and LNG fueling facilities.
Publish Date: 3/1/17
Good Practice Handbook: Use of Security Forces: Assessing and Managing Risks and Impacts
This Good Practice Handbook on the Use of Security Forces: Assessing and Managing Risks and Impacts has been developed for IFC clients and other private sector companies and their consultants. The handbook provides practical, project-level guidance for companies to better understand and implement the requirements outlined in Performance Standard 4. Chapters focus on risk assessment, managing private security, managing the relationship with public security, preparing a security management plan, and assessing allegations or incidents related to security personnel.
Publish Date: 2/15/17
Tafila Region Wind Power Projects - Cumulative Effects Assessment
The Tafila Region Wind Power Project Cumulative Effects Assessment (CEA) is the first of its kind in the Eastern Europe, Middle East, and North Africa region. It aims to promote more sustainable wind energy investments in Jordan while assessing and managing potential adverse environmental and social effects of renewables. The overall management and technical direction of the CEA was undertaken by IFC, supported by a team of multidisciplinary international and Jordanian experts and advisors.
Publish Date: 2/2/17
Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines for Ports, Harbors, and Terminals
The EHS Guidelines for Ports, Harbors, and Terminals are applicable to marine and freshwater ports, harbors, and terminals for cargo and passengers.
Publish Date: 11/17/16
Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines for Petroleum Refining
The EHS Guidelines for Petroleum Refining cover processing operations from raw crude oil to finished products, for example refinery fuel gas, liquefied petroleum gas, motor gasoline, kerosene, diesel oil, heating oil, fuel oil, bitumen, asphalt, lubricant oils, waxes, sulfur, pet-coke, and intermediate products for the petrochemical industry.
Publish Date: 10/16/16
Environmental & Social Review Procedures Manual
The Environmental & Social Review Procedures Manual defines management-approved tasks to achieve client compliance with the Policy and Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability, Access to Information Policy, and Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Guidelines.
Publish Date: 8/9/16
Remediation Financing in Bangladesh’s Ready Made Garment Sector
This study provides an overview of the financial needs to remedy structural, electrical and fire safety issues in Bangladesh apparel export factories and identifies constraints in accessing financing and barriers to remediation. It helps understand the current context for remediation in Bangladesh and what is needed for factories to access financing for necessary improvements. It also provides key stakeholders with relevant information to design further interventions.
Publish Date: 4/12/16
Survey Findings: Biomass to Energy in Ukraine 2015
The survey has been conducted among 200+ Ukrainian stakeholders: pellet producers, agricultural producers (agro-holdings), as well as district heating companies. It will be helpful for policy decision makers to shape biomass market support responses, for vendors to understand potential market opportunities, and for financial institutions to understand which financial instruments will be best to offer.
Publish Date: 3/31/16
Environmental, Health and Safety Guidelines for Annual Crop Production
The EHS Guidelines for Annual Crop Production include information relevant to large-scale production, harvesting, post harvesting processing and storage of major annual crops, including cereals, pulses, roots and tubers, oil-bearing crops, fiber crops, vegetables, and fodder crops, located in both temperate and tropical regions. It does not include the processing of raw materials into semi-finished and finished products.
Publish Date: 1/20/16
A Solar Developer’s Guide to Pakistan
This guide provides background for those who are implementing or intending to invest in solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants in Pakistan.
Publish Date: 11/23/15
Environmental, Health and Safety Guidelines for Perennial Crop Production
The EHS Guidelines for Perennial Crop Production include information relevant to large-scale plantation crops and outgrower systems and focuses on the primary production and harvesting through farming and plantation forestry of major multi-year food, fiber, energy, ornamental, and pharmaceutical crops, located in both temperate and tropical regions.
