Country : Ukraine

Through the Resource Efficiency and Cleaner Production (RECP) Programme, IRE has made outstanding contributions towards the identification, development, and testing of tools and methods for RECP to the diverse conditions in developing and emerging economies. The new Global Eco-Industrial Park Programme (GEIPP) is geared to scale up RECP to the level of eco-industrial parks seeking to integrate support at the enterprise and park scales and address critical policy issues. Key benefits for Eco-Industrial Parks include reducing an industrial park’s environmental footprint; promoting efficiency gains; enabling community cohesion; providing better access to finance and technical support; and enhancing business competitiveness. Good international industry practice demonstrates a wide range of economic, environmental, and social benefits from Eco-Industrial Parks (EIPs). 
The development objective of GEIPP, which is funded by Switzerland through the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), is to demonstrate the viability and benefits of Eco-Industrial Park approaches in scaling up resource productivity and improving economic, environmental, and social performances of businesses and thereby contribute to inclusive and sustainable industrial development in the participating developing and transition economies. GEIPP is structured into two main components: 

Component 1 addresses country-specific EIPs by implementing tailor-made initiatives for potential project activities in the following five countries: Colombia, Egypt, Peru, Ukraine, and Vietnam. 
Component 2 serves as a transversal component in the GEIPP for global knowledge development. The objective of this component is to generate and disseminate knowledge from present and past endeavours, which can be used to tackle the required preconditions for EIP. It aims to generate and disseminate/transfer knowledge to the various country projects and special country measures within the country-level interventions (Component 1), to the stakeholders and UNIDO, and the interested public in general through global dissemination.

Description of Activities
The services delivered during this project were in the context of supporting the development of  laws and regulatory amendment proposals, proposing the Ukrainian EIP vision and preparing an Award Scheme for EIP in Ukraine. In particular the following activities were carried out:
* Development of an EIP policy vision for Ukraine
* Development of an EIP policy Development roadmap
* Preparation of proposals on EIP amendments in current regulatory instruments in Ukraine
* Proposed the setting up of an award scheme for EIP in Ukraine
* Organization of a validation workshop (presentations, brainstorming, expert discussions, and polling sections on the relevance of EIP Policy in Ukraine) involving representatives of Ukrainian governmental officials and other local EIP stakeholders 

Duration : December 2021 to May 2022