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Environmental Sourcebook for Micro-Finance Institutions
1997, Pallen, D.

What environmental concerns need to be considered?

Is designed to help MFIs improve their lending activities, and, specifically, to:

understand the importance of environmental well-being to the success of micro- enterprises
improve the environmental performance of micro- enterprise projects and programmes
improve the quality and expand the range of MFI activities
develop management techniques and programming options based on environmental motivations

Presents environmental guidelines for:

food processing: understand the role of the micro-enterprise in the local economy and its importance to the community as a creator of employment; address any concerns community members have regarding the micro-enterprise; ensure that drinking water sources or other productive uses of local services and resources are not compromised by the introduction of the food processing activity; use more efficient technologies and processes
aquaculture: resolve all conflicts relating to common property resource ownership that characterise many aquaculture operations and that may jeopardise the operation; maintain the highest construction standards possible; use preventive management practices such as refiltering water, or limiting the impact of salt water effluent by diluting it in a large water bed
urban-based micro-enterprises: the choice of location should be the one for which the fewest adverse environmental impacts are anticipated, taking into account current land-use, adjacent uses and inherited problems
general environmental health and safety guidelines: assess any health and safety risks to workers as a result of dust, fumes, odours, or pollutants; rearrange work space to reduce risks, facilitate order and cleanliness and improve efficiency; impress upon everyone the importance of keeping a work area clean, remove all rubbish from the work space and situate receptacles for waste and debris in convenient locations; ensure proper ventilation of indoor operations; ban smoking and drinking

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Canadian International Development Agency