SWITCH Asia II has four key principles and two Funding Lots. The first lot covers three types of activities and the second lot covers two types of activities.
Key Principles
- Integrated Approach
- Replication approach and engaging with policy makers
- Building on existing competence
- Cooperation with the SWITCH-Asia Network Facility
Funding Lots
- Priority 1: Support the switch to sustainable consumption patterns and behavior amongst consumer groups, civil society stakeholders and the public sector.
Types of Activities
- Design for Sustainability
- Stimulating Sustainable Consumption
- Sustainable Usage
- Priority 2: Micro, small and medium enterprises support for SCP uptake and access to finance.
Types of Activities
- Cleaner Production
- Greening the supply chain
Projects in Lot II should provide
- A clear analysis of the types of constraints in terms of access to finance encountered by firms and other productive actors involved in SCP-related activities.
- The distinction between:
- Constraints that are to be dealt with at systemic level, and for which broader interventions of financial sector development would be needed (e.g. legal regulatory and supervisory issues; financial infrastructure gaps).
- Constraints that can be dealt with by working with stakeholders at the meso and micro levels of the financial sector [e.g. banking training institutes/associations, technical providers in the financial sector, individual financial institutions (banks, leasing companies, in some cases also MFIs)].
- Concrete solutions and activities to facilitate the access to finance to support SCP, e.g. in terms of awareness raising on opportunities and challenges of green finance and capacity building of relevant stakeholders (e.g. at policy and industry levels).
