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EHS (Environment, Health & Safety) training program for the informal waste sector

The EHS Training Program for the Informal Waste Sector, promoted by PREVENT Waste Alliance, with funding from the Federal Ministry...

ValuCred Update: Can a quality label enhance plastic credits towards EPR?

ValuCred is a consortium led by Yunus Environment Hub, Nehlsen & Rodiek, and BlackForestSolutions. It is one of the first...

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Shifting towards a New Civilisation – Social Business Day 2022

The 12th annual Social Business Day 2022, organized by Yunus Centre, took place from 27-30 June 2022. This global event...

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🙌 Meet the Big Sisters 👌 Rachael Wairimu,

🙌 Meet the Big Sisters

👌 Rachael Wairimu, The Founder/Lead Trainer of Raesna Consultancy, helps professionals and entrepreneurs to have a healthy relationship with money by creating financial sustainability for them.

👨‍🎓 She has vast knowledge and experience in financial literacy, financial planning and budgeting, debt management as well as helping entrepreneurs with business management skills that will improve their business. Her goal is to mentor women to grow and lead sustainable businesses across the world.

❗ Absa Bank Kenya in collaboration with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Employment and Skills for Development in Africa (E4D) Programme implemented by Yunus Environment Hub (YEH) seeks to empower up to 1.500 women-led micro, small and medium enterprises, to build more resilient, sustainable, and competitive businesses in response to disrupted livelihoods, climate change, biodiversity loss and a resource depleting economy.

You too can become a #SHEStar. Apply via https://she.yunusenvironmenthub.com/

@absakenya @bmz_bund

🧩LET‘S ACCELERATE GREEN TRANSFORMATION TOGETH

🧩LET‘S ACCELERATE GREEN TRANSFORMATION TOGETHER is this year's motto of the #ImpactFestival22.
Our Co-founder and Managing Director, Christina Jäger is invited to join the panel 'Circular Economy Transition - A bumpy road?' with Lydia Neuhuber, Deloitte and Helge Adomeit, @everwave.official

❗ The IMPACT FESTIVAL is Europe's largest B2B sustainable technology event, bringing
together key players and start-ups & scale-ups to accelerate sustainable transformation in
our economy. Come meet us there!

See more info here: https://impact-festival.earth/

❗❓ What mechanisms could be effectively implem

❗❓ What mechanisms could be effectively implemented to finance plastic waste management?

🎉 We participated in the "Financing mechanisms for plastic waste management" workshop in Bangalore, India, organised by the @PREVENTWasteAlliance on 22nd September, 2022. Our team shared findings and learnings from the #ValuCred pilot project testing in India, one of the first pilot projects of PREVENT Waste Alliance ♻ .

🎊 We wish to thank everyone who joined the workshop and showed interest in our programs that seek to solve plastic waste pollution and empower waste workers.

Would you like to learn more about the #ValuCred program? Follow this link 👇https://yunusenvironmenthub.com/valucred/

@nehlsen_gruppe @blackforest.solutions @uni.wuppertal @endplasticwaste @cleanhub.io @greenworms_ @carpe_ecosattva @banyan.nation @recitynetworkindia @thekabadiwala @recircle.in

#circulareconomy #endplasticwaste #informalsector #vietnam #wastemanagement #socialbusiness #sdg #networking

Meet the #BigSisters 👏Patricia Okello, one of

Meet the #BigSisters

👏Patricia Okello, one of our mentors aka Big Sister in our #SHEStars program, is passionate about empowering women through entrepreneurship. She is a strong believer that women entrepreneurs will be in the frontline in changing Africa´s economy for the better. She is the Co-Author of, A Candid Handbook for Women doing Business in Kenya, which encourages women to venture into entrepreneurship and leadership roles.

✨ She is the founder of Candid Conversations - a community of female entrepreneurs who believe in the principle of abundance. Patricia also founded, Kayana Creative, which has impacted 480 women-led SMEs by offering them support such as market linkages and legal processing.

❗ Absa Bank Kenya in collaboration with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Employment and Skills for Development in Africa (E4D) Programme implemented by Yunus Environment Hub (YEH) seeks to empower up to 1.500 women-led micro, small and medium enterprises, to build more resilient, sustainable, and competitive businesses in response to disrupted livelihoods, climate change, biodiversity loss and a resource depleting economy.

❗ Join the SHE Stars today and get an in-depth understanding of topics in business. Apply via https://she.yunusenvironmenthub.com/

@umweltministerium @absakenya @bmz_bund @patokelo @kayana_kenya @circlesforwomeninbusiness

🙋Leshan Waithira is a Communications Assistant

👉 Sign up for our newsletter today and make sur

👉 Sign up for our newsletter today and make sure you read it with joy! We have some exciting news coming up: Link In Bio
#newsletter #socialbusiness #socbiz #3zeros #climatecrisis #circulareconomy #sustainableimpact

#BuildBackBetter Digital Marketing Masterclass

👨‍💻 This week, our BBB program hosted a virtual #masterclass on digital marketing focused on equipping social businesses with effective and efficient digital marketing skills for #circulareconomy.

🙌 Together with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Yunus Environment Hub is supporting 25 social businesses in Kenya that were affected by COVID-19 through the Build Back Better Program. These social businesses will be able to harness circular economy advantages for a sustainable and resilient recovery from the impact of the pandemic. The program promotes the transformation to a more economically sustainable business growth that prioritizes environmental sustainability and long-term green employment opportunities.

You can learn more about this program on our website. Use link in bio ⬆

👋 Meet the Big Sisters Caroline Gathii, one of

👋 Meet the Big Sisters
Caroline Gathii, one of our Big Sisters in the #SHEStars program, has over 20 years of multi-sectoral and regional professional experience in governance and trade. She is currently managing, First Idea Consulting (FIC) Limited a Risk Advisory company.

🚀 She is the current Chair of the Risk and Compliance Committee at Faulu Micro-Finance Bank and serves in the Audit and Risk Committee as an External Expert at Africa Economic Research Consortium (AERC). Caroline is also an Independent Director at the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA).

❗ Absa Bank Kenya in collaboration with the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Employment and Skills for Development in Africa (E4D) Programme implemented by Yunus Environment Hub (YEH) seeks to empower up to 1.500 women-led micro, small and medium enterprises, to build more resilient, sustainable, and competitive businesses in response to disrupted livelihoods, climate change, biodiversity loss and a resource depleting economy.

Join cohort three of the “SHE Stars- See Her Empowered” program via https://she.yunusenvironmenthub.com/

@absakenya @bmz_bund @firstideaconsulting

✨ On Tuesday, 13 September 2022, Yunus Environme

✨ On Tuesday, 13 September 2022, Yunus Environment Hub hosted its first networking event in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It was a cheerful and interactive event with great conversations and engagements from passionate stakeholders, potential partners, environmental advocates and experts in the circular economy sector.

🎤 Christina Jäger, Co-founder & Managing Director and Tam Phan, Country Manager in Vietnam were delighted to introduce Yunus Environment Hub’s global social business programs and present findings and lessons learnt from the #Valucred Standard Process Model (SPM)’s Pilot Testing and the EHS Training Program for the Informal Waste Sector with the intrigued audience.

🙏🏽 We wish to thank everyone who attended the event and supported us behind the scenes to make the event possible.
Special thanks to Ms. Nguyen Ngoc Tiep, scrap shop owner from Tien Giang province and the two female waste collectors accompanying her to the event. Their presence and stories were a gift that lit up the room and were graciously received by the event participants. It was a rare and valuable opportunity for our stakeholders to hear the voices of representatives of the informal waste sector and to better understand their important works and their reflections on the implemented activities on the ground.

Please stay connected with us and keep an eye on our future events and programs.

@bmz_bund @blackforest.solutions @unep @nehlsen_gruppe @redlist_of_ecosysrems @PreventWasteAlliance @wasteaid @rethinkplastic_vietnam @VietnamUnionofFriendship Organizations-VUFO

#Vietnam #climatecrisis #plasticpollution #wastemanagement #socialbusiness #sdgs #Alba #PRO Vietnam #NestléLavie #DaithanhvinhPlastic #CircularSolutionsFestival2022

🌍 How are different countries promoting and str

🌍 How are different countries promoting and strengthening social innovations? What kind of strategies and approaches can be found and serve as examples that could be implemented in Germany to reach the Paris Agreement goals and #SDGs? Take a look at our highlighted best practices to find out more! This piece is part of the SINA program YEH is implementing on behalf of the German Environmental Ministry (@umweltministerium) (German only)

https://si-na.org/effektive-forderung-sozialer-innovationen/

#SocialInnovation #SINA #3zeros #socbiz #climate #environment #policy

📣 We are looking for an independent waste manag

📣 We are looking for an independent waste management consultant, based in the Chennai Region, India, starting in October 2022.

Find all details here:
https://yunusenvironmenthub.com/contact/#tenders

📣 Our team will share insights and next steps f

📣 Our team will share insights and next steps from our #ValuCred project during the Prevent Circular Solutions Festival.

📅 Monday, 12th September, Circular Solutions Stage 1: Financing Models for Circular Plastics
📅 Tuesday, 13th September, Online Sessions: Key Lessons Learnt from Socially-Inclusive, Circular Plastics Value Chain Projects.

💡 The Circular Solutions Festival features successful circular economy approaches that can be scaled and adapted to other contexts or regions.

The digital attendance is open to all interested parties - see details on the website:
https://prevent-waste.net/en/circular-solutions-festival-12-14-september/

For attendance inquiries please contact events@prevent-waste.net

@bmz_bund @unep @blackforest.solutions @nehlsen_gruppe

#circulareconomy #wastemanagement #socialbusiness #endplasticwaste #sdg #circularity

📣 Come join us for a chat on circularity! On Tu

📣 Come join us for a chat on circularity! On Tuesday, 13th September 2022, from 8:30 am to 11:30 am, Vietnam time Yunus Environment Hub (YEH) is hosting a networking event in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to share insights on our implemented social business programs in the circular economy sector. This event will gather a diverse group of experts, entrepreneurs and like-minded individuals in a welcoming atmosphere.

🎙During the event, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Chairman of YEH Prof. Muhammad Yunus will address the audience in a video message, followed by an introduction of our global activities by Ms. Christina Jäger, Co-founder & Managing Director. Furthermore, Ms. Tam Phan, YEH Vietnam Country Director, will share the experiences and findings of the ValuCred Pilot Testing project and the Environment-Health-Safety Training program for the informal waste sector. An interview with one of our pilot partners, a scrap shop owner from Tien Giang province will provide some implementation insights. To conclude, there will be a Q&A session and networking conversations for all participants to join further discussions and explore collaboration opportunities.

📧 Please contact us if you have any enquiries about the event via info@yunuseh.com

📅 Event Info:
• Date: Tuesday, 13th September 2022
• Time: from 8:30 am to 11:30 am, Vietnam time
• Location: Nam Thi House, 152 Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Str., Ben Nghe Ward, District 1, HCMC, Vietnam

#circulareconomy #endplasticwaste #informalsector #vietnam #wastemanagement #socialbusiness #sdg #networking
@wasteaid @tontoton_ @rethinkplastic_vietnam @albaeurope @wwf

📣 We are looking for a Working Student (m/f/d)

📣 We are looking for a Working Student (m/f/d) in Program Management, based in our Berlin office, starting date in October 2022.

Find all details here:
https://yunusenvironmenthub.com/contact/#hiring

🎓 We held a masterclass on "StartUps & Politics

🎓 We held a masterclass on "StartUps & Politics" during the StartupsForTomorrow Festival. The needed socio-ecological transformation of our economy can only be achieved through listening and active dialogue.

💡 We collected thoughts, experiences, and recommendations as to what political institutions in Germany can do to support green social businesses and leverage their impact - and will take these insights into account during our upcoming policy workshops with the @BMUV and our high-level experts.

📖 Check our #SINA website to learn more about #socinn in the ecological sustainability context and the results from our extensive policy advisory work.

www.si-na.org
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Repost: @startupsfortomorrow

SFT FESTIVAL BERLIN 2022 🤯😍
Am 12.08.22 fand in Berlin im @festsaalkreuzberg unser erstes SFT Festival statt. Über 250 wundervolle Menschen aus 11 Startups for Tomorrow kommen zum ersten mal persönlich zusammen - mit einer gemeinsamen Mission #letsmakegreenthenewnormal

⏰ Application deadline extended until 4th Septem

⏰ Application deadline extended until 4th September, EOD!

Your last chance to apply for our #GrowUP #Incubator #CircularImpact for social businesses in sustainable tourism and mobility in EastAfrica.

The program offers capacity-building workshops, on-demand individualised working sessions with our circular economy and impact measurement methodology experts, networking with and pitching opportunities to our pool of investors & supporters, and peer-to-peer support to share challenges and discover innovative solutions.

Selected social businesses will:
⭕ Access circular economy and impact measurement training and tools
📈 Explore how to transform business model and integrate elements of circularity
📏 Get support to integrate impact measurement methodology into the operational model
📣 Receive peer-to-peer coaching from other social business entrepreneurs working in the same sector
🤝🏾 Meet relevant supporters and potential funders during Demo Day
👋🏾 Be exposed to an international network of social business supporters

Apply here for the Circular Impact Cohort: https://yunusenvironmenthub.com/growup-incubator/
@PostcodeLoterij @GrameenCreativeLab #YYFoundation

👓 On behalf of @UNEP, Yunus Environment Hub is

👓 On behalf of @UNEP, Yunus Environment Hub is conducting a qualitative study on the risks and opportunities of #plasticcredit schemes for the informal waste sector. The regional focus lies on 7 countries in South-East Asia.

🎙 So far, our team has conducted interviews with close to 30 experts and stakeholders involved in the plastic waste value chain discussing potential risks and opportunities of plastic credits with each of them. Given the novelty and complexity of plastic credit schemes, our interviewees' opinions vary widely and we are eager to hear your opinions, too.

Some interviewees view plastic credits in a very positive light:
- "I think the way we've defined the plastic credit and the way it's working, I cannot see a negative impact on the informal sector."
- "Plastic credits could make that the informal collectors get a bigger part of the pie, which I think they rightfully deserve because they are doing the hard work in collecting the plastic.”

⚖ Others are very critical of plastic credits and their potential benefits:
- "Depending on how you set up the mechanism, there will be winners and losers, even within the ecosystem of the informal recycling sector"
- "The danger is that the informal waste collectors will depend on the plastic credits instead of using the plastic credits to strengthen them to become more independent and more self-sufficient"

📣 What is your take on plastic credits and their potential impact on the informal waste sector? Let us know in the comments or reach out to us to take part in our study!

#UNEP #wastemanagement #informalsector #plasticcredits #plasticcrisis #sdgs #circulareconomy

👋 Andrea is a research and design assistant at

📆 Only one week left to apply for our #GrowUp #

📆 Only one week left to apply for our #GrowUp #Incubator #CircularImpact
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We are looking to support post-revenue stage social businesses in the sustainable tourism 🏕 and mobility 🚐 sector in East Africa looking to grow circular and impactful solutions.

We offer interactive capacity-building workshops, on-demand individualized working sessions with our circular economy and impact measurement methodology experts, networking with and pitching opportunities to our pool of investors & supporters, and peer-to-peer support to share challenges and discover innovative solutions.

Selected social businesses will:
⭕ Access circular economy and impact measurement training and tools
📈 Explore how to transform business model and integrate elements of circularity
📏 Get support to integrate impact measurement methodology into operational model
📣 Receive peer-to-peer coaching from other social business entrepreneurs working in the same sector
🤝🏾 Meet relevant supporters and potential funders during Demo Day
👋🏾 Be exposed to an international network of social business supporters

Apply here for the Circular Impact Cohort: https://yunusenvironmenthub.com/growup-incubator/
@postcodeloterij @yunuscentrebg @grameencreativelab

📲 Over the past six months, the ValuCred standa

📲 Over the past six months, the ValuCred standard process model and its mobile application have been tested with four partner organizations in the informal and semi-formal sectors in India, Vietnam, Ghana and Angola. For waste data tracking purposes, ValuCred collaborated with the Berlin-based tech start-up @CleanHub, which specialized in data tracking in informal waste sectors.

💡 The key results of our pilot testing are a constantly increased interest of informal waste sector stakeholders to participate in co-financing opportunities and their understanding of compliance with governance and the need for data collection. Along with this goes a higher interest in digital literacy. Furthermore, our testing phase confirmed the need for collaboration between international plastic credit market players, including agreements on requirements for data tracking, capacity building as well as reporting procedures.

❗ The ValuCred consortium intends to take this further in an upscaling project and understands these efforts as the transition toward operational EPR standards. @nehlsen_gruppe @blackforest.solutions #GIZ #RöchlingStiftung

Read more here: https://yunusenvironmenthub.com/valucred-update-establishing-a-quality-label-to-enhance-plastic-credits-towards-epr-standards

#ValuCred #PlasticCredits #informalwastesector #circulareconomy #wastemanagement #3zeros #DataTracking #digitalsolutions

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