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Cleaner Production was introduced in Zambia in 1997. The
Cleaner Production Project has achieved a number of
goals. Some of these have been the training of 50
personnel from industry in CP technologies and the
dissemination of information to stakeholders who
included decision makers from selected industry and
government institutions.
The CP
Project has been funded by Norwegian Agency for
Development (NORAD) under the Industrial Pollution
Prevention Programme (IPPP).
Course
content
The
theory and practical applications of CP are disseminated
to Zambian industry through a series of workshops and
in-company visits.
The CP
methodology is very simple. Among the steps and topics
lectured in workshops and subsequently implemented back
in companies are:
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Securing top management commitment;
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Organising the CP project;
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Developing an environmental policy;
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Selecting department or process line and
agreeing project goals;
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Setting up flow-sheets, mass and energy
balances as well as costing the streams;
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Idea generation or brainstorming;
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Options screening and selection;
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Feasibility analysis: technical,
environmental and economic;
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Investment analysis: payback period, NPV
and IRR and project financing;
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Project implementation and reporting;
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Business strategy and modern
environmental management;
As a supplement to the basic CP training,
additional courses in environmental management systems
(EMS) and business development for financing CP projects
have been delivered. As part of capacity building, more
than 15 CP experts have been trained through the
train the trainer training. In addition a seminar on
how to introduce CP in the planning process of
developmental projects by integrating CP with the
Zambian Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
regulations has been carried out.
Results
The CP
Project has successfully conducted seven training
programmes over the past four years. Measurable
environmental and economic benefits have been recorded.
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discusses the number of people trained and the economic
benefits the last seven programmes have scored |
