- Africa Logistics Properties (ALP) is partnering with the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
- The objective is to increase awareness of the World Bank Group’s Edge certification among Nairobi’s green building developers.
Soon, Kenya’s majority of structures will be environmentally friendly. That is the aim of the International Financial Corporation (IFC) and Africa Logistics Properties (ALP), who recently partnered in Nairobi. The World Bank Group division in charge of funding the private sector wants to spread awareness of its “Edge” certification (Excellence in Design for Increased Efficiencies) among construction companies in the capital of Kenya.
In this climate change-affected nation of East Africa, the initiative seeks to advance green construction. With the installation of low-flow faucets or the deployment of wastewater management systems, as well as the reduction of the consumption of embodied energy in the building materials, this IFC certification will specifically assist reduce the environmental effect of the structures.
Notable winners include Kenyan startup Mega Gas Alternative Energy, which also won the Start Up Energy Transition Award for the seventh cohort (SET Award). As an alternative to charcoal and firewood, whose combustion increases air pollution, the clean cooking firm transforms Nairobi’s garbage into biogas.
There is also the Congolese company RD Full Development Agency (FDA), which has vowed to educate the populace of Bukavu about the massive plastic pollution of Lake Kivu. Collectively, the eight winners of the third Afri-Plastics competition will get financial support from the Canadian government worth a total of £4.1 million ($5.2 million) and technical assistance for the development of their ideas in sub-Saharan Africa.