SIWI is tasked with the overall project management, and contributes with policy research, outreach efforts and reporting. SIWI and the buying companies have formed a Management Group (MG) that meets regularly over the course of the project to plan and monitor implementation in close touch with the Indian consultant, cKinetics. The consultant’s role is to identify saving opportunities, build capacities, and provide technical assistance to the Indian factories throughout the programme.

The model that this project works on showcases opportunities for resource-savings, which lead to increased profitability margins. The participating units will then receive training and technical sup-port to achieve such savings on both the short- and long-term.

The SWAR programme involves 16 factories in the National Capital Region of Delhi, of which seven dyeing and printing and nine garment units; the factories are spread out over an area of 2,000 km2. In Rajasthan, the Jaipur Integrated Texcraft Park Ltd (JITP or ‘Jaipur Bloc’) is a new and aspiring state-of-the-art textile park set up some 25 km outside Jaipur with support from the Government of India’s ‘Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks’.

As members of the JITP, 13 hand-block printing factories and four partly new and relatively small dyeing factories have signed up to the SWAR programme (the JITP also counts as a SWAR unit). These are prepared to move and start operating as soon as all due consents are in place and the Park officially opened (tentatively in September); some block printing units are however already in full swing. The Park and its facilities being new, assessments, baseline figures, systems for tracking and measuring resource consumption, equipment and savings advice and targets all look different compared with the Delhi factories. The programme is hence divided into four different segments: Delhi dyeing units; Delhi garment units; Jaipur dyeing units; and Jaipur block print units, respectively. These have by necessity been treated differently along with the diverge conditions and needs applying to them.

Both the financing and technical models of this programme have so far received significant attention in Sweden, India and internationally.

Project Info

• Project Team: Rami Abdelrahman, Jenny Grönwall
• Partners: Indiska, KappAhl, Lindex and 39 of their suppliers and sub-suppliers in Delhi and Jaipur.
• Consultant: cKinetics
• Co-financed by: project partners and Sida.
• Timeline: 2013-2014

As a neutral, not-for-profit, solution-oriented, world-leading water policy and management research institute, SIWI helps businesses understand and address water-related risks and challenges to their operations and reputation globally, and in specific regions where they operate. After identifying opportunities in current challenges, SIWI formulates strategies for businesses, mapping current activities and suggesting concrete measures to improve existing water use.  SIWI offers analytic and managerial competence to plan and execute projects, or support existing ones, focusing on operational efficiency, contextualization and minimization of water risk and improving sustainable resource management. SIWI offers its unique expertise in producing comprehensive solutions to address water challenges and create opportunities.

Examples of products that SIWI offers its business clients:

Strategic Research: SIWI produces strategic assessment research focussing on water use in relation to a specific industry, region or operation, mapping areas of interest and future challenges to create greater understanding for the competing demands for water and the ways in which industry interplays with others in a water basin setting.

Comprehensive status reports including the following content:

1. Baseline assessment. Baseline assessments comprehensively describe the current status in terms of how does an industry positions itself within competition over water resources.
2. GAP analysis. SIWI analyses current practices to improve sustainable water use and what can be done better.
3. Opportunity assessment. Forward-looking analysis focussing on concrete benefits to be achieved by strategic investments and other progressive actions in the industries water managing functions.

Operational analysis: SIWI develops strategic option assessment plans to reduce unsustainable, on- site, water resources use established for each operation entity. Based on information gathered at a specific project area, such options would ensure efficiency of processes and elaborate cost-reduction or return on investment. Such plans include option assessments for:

• Water saving, quality and reuse: areas of direct water use which can be reduced, replaced or abandoned to save water, improve quality of waste-water and where can water reuse be effective.
• Operation efficiency: Operational schemes/appliances/equipment maintenance, adjustment or altering to address both direct and indirect water usage use – and energy consumption in extension.
• Technology choices: New technology that could be invested in to cater for the above.

Capacity Building and Management Support: This includes a number of options connected to support the management to reach its targets, capitalise on its opportunities, and ensure the sustainability of its improvements. These include:

1. Policy compliance support
2. Capacity Building and human resource development
3. Knowledge management
4. Sustainable water management project development and implementation support

Article in Stockholm Water Front, issue no 2, 2012.

Article in Stockholm Water Front, issue no 1, 2012.

Published in Water Front Magazine No. 3 2010.

Published in Water Front Magazine No. 2 2010.

Published in Water Front Magazine No.1 2010