Deadline: 06-May-2025
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is implementing the InTex Indonesia project to promote the shift to circular textile value chains, this includes enhancing knowledge and technical capacity of government and businesses (mainly SMEs) in Indonesia on life cycle thinking and circular business model.
The InTex Indonesia project is part of the UNEP Textile Initiative and is funded by the government of Denmark. The project builds on the experiences and network of the InTex project that has been implemented in Kenya, South Africa and Tunisia and currently in India.
Focus Areas
- The Roadmap and the Action plan focusses on 5 sectors: food, plastic packaging, electronics, construction and textiles. The Roadmap sets out 3 strategies for promoting circularity in the textiles sector:
- Develop infrastructure and strengthen the national textile economic ecosystem in particular with regards to post consumer textiles (reuse, repair, recycle and recover)
- Reduction of textile waste (reuse, repair, recycle and recover)
- Increase resource efficiency in the textile production process including through the promotion of eco-design (rethink, and reduce)
Funding Information
- The maximum budget for national implementation of the project until Dec 2027 is USD 350,000 for Output 1 and 250,000 USD for Output 2.
- The project implementation period is from 1 January 2025 until 31 December 2027
Expected Outcomes
- Output 1: Textile industry actors (including SMEs) are assisted in integrating life cycle and circular approaches into business practices, including through:
- Awareness raising and training of individuals in companies and institutions on circular textile tools including life cycle approaches.
- Accompany companies to assess and identify sustainability strategies to reduce their environmental impacts and apply eco-design, using LCA/PEF.
- Develop relevant life cycle inventory data for specific processes relevant for the Indonesian textile sector (specific process or product) for baseline and standard and policy development available.
- Assessment of existing eco-design standards to inform decisions on standard rollout and, if relevant, development.
- Target Output 1: A minimum of 200 individuals are trained in companies and institutions in Indonesia on circular textile tools (including LCA) and at least 30 textiles companies in the country apply a life cycle approach to identify their product environmental impacts to drive product manufacturing decisions
- Output 2: Indonesian government is supported in development and implementation of circular textile policies and instruments (e.g., textile EPR policy), including through:
- Awareness raising and training on applications of life cycle approaches for policy decision making (including product environmental footprint and eco-modulation of fees for EPR).
- Support in scoping eco-modulation opportunities for EPR policy to support eco-design in Indonesia.
- Upon government request, legal support to develop legislation or model legislation.
- Target Output 2: A minimum of 60 individuals in government institutions are trained on circular textile policies and a minimum of two policy-related knowledge products and/or tools are developed and provided to the Indonesian government, on textile sustainability and circularity.
Eligibility Criteria
- The applicant organization should have verifiable experience in engaging with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and/or the government of Indonesia and a familiarity with the Indonesian textile sector. The organization must be located in Indonesia, have proven experience in implementing projects of similar scale and nature, in Indonesia. The organisation must have access to expertise in life cycle approaches internally or demonstrate ability to contract such expertise as part of the project team. Organisations applying for separate outputs will be assessed independently using output specific criteria. The same organisation can be chosen to implement one or more of the outputs. The proposals/applications will be reviewed according to how they meet the following criteria:
- Technical Expertise
- Quality of the application
- Technical expertise and ability to deliver timely
- Existing networks with relevant local and international stakeholders such as textiles industry, policy makers, research institutes
- Proven experience of ability to work in Indonesia, to mobilize relevant technical expertise required and language skills (English and local)
- Past experience
- Existing expertise in the team
- Past experience in implementing projects of similar nature
- Budget
- Available in-kind contribution
- Cost effectiveness
- Technical Expertise
- This call for proposals is for non-profit organisations that are registered in Indonesia (both national NGOs and international NGOs with national chapters), government entities providing services to the government and/or industry and functioning as intermediary in one or more of the following areas: policy development, textile circularity, life cycle approaches, and eco-innovation.
For more information, visit UNEP.