Promoting Energy Conservation in Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (PECSME)

The PECSME project is proposed to address the barriers to widespread adoption of energy conservation measures and practices in Vietnam’s SME sector identified during the PDF-B funded project design. The project is designed to provide an innovative program approach by integrating a range of complementary components and activities into an overall synergistic program. The need to deal with the myriad details in a project of this type with its many integrated components and activities is recognized in the project design where the general approach utilized in each component is to have explicit early establishment phases where the outputs of these phases then provide the necessary practical design refinements into subsequent phases. This is seen as being more effective than trying to design all activities in great detail at this point and thus lock the project into design details that may prove to be inappropriate once project implementation feedback becomes available.