Activities in the Final Phase

Meanwhile the project entered already the final phase. To avoid delay with regard to the planned completion date, some of the activities have been started already during the main implementation phase. The following lists, what has been done, what is under preparation and what will happen until project end. The project will end on June 30, 2008.

o Activity H - Evaluation of achievements

The evaluation of the CP assessment reports provided by the companies is already completed. The companies have already formulated their new environmental policy. The core results will be drawn as content of a final project brochure (see also Activity I)

o Activity I - Final audit

To honour the good work done by the pilot companies the team will issue a certificate to them. A part of the preparations to do so is to run through an awarding checklist, which has been circulated already in September 2007 to the companies. This check is almost completed and eight companies will qualify to receive the certificate. This element is very much under the control of MNCCI as they have the knowledge to really determine if the companies have succeeded.

Awards will also be given to the deserving trainers and possibly active members of the participating companies. Also this element is very much under the control of MNCCI as they have the knowledge to really determine if the persons have qualified.

The major results will be published in a project brochure. The design for this will be based on a recent Irish example. The contents will include of course the company achievements, but also features about the project itself, the ECOPROFIT methodology and the ASIA-INVEST Programme.

It is planned to bring all this to a public platform during a final conference to be held in Ulan Bator end of May or beginning of June 2008. We don’t know, why this event was not been foreseen in the original project description, but of course it will be a logic and necessary activity.

o Activity J - Guideline for replication

The most important aspect of the project is to demonstrate the capacity that has been built up through the Action as well as concrete evidence that the ECOPROFIT model will be sustained. This will require a clear plan of intent from MNCCI - ideally in the form of a business plan. Mr. Wolfgang Weissel has already forwarded a draft outline of a business plan for the establishment of the ECOPROFIT Cluster within (preferably) the MNCCI. The outline covers a complete business plan with a very short version of Market and Stakeholder analysis and few information on marketing activities. Nevertheless the business plan is very important for the management of the MNCCI and for the start up for follow-up initiatives.

This business plan is the professional step to sustain CP activities on an international standard in Mongolia.