This document discusses a case study on promoting green transition among cottage, small, micro and medium enterprises (CSMMEs) in Bangladesh through a rapid strategic environmental assessment. It defines CSMMEs and provides background statistics on their importance to the Bangladeshi economy. The document outlines current policy, plans and programs supporting CSMMEs and their environmental impacts. It discusses challenges and opportunities for CSMME greening, as well as environmental, economic and social challenges faced by these enterprises. The methodology, a literature review, analysis frameworks, and questionnaires for stakeholders are also summarized.

1. Shaheduzzaman KHONDOKAR ID: 231761
Abdur Rahim Khalifa ID: 231753
Md. Abdullah Al Mamun ID: 231757
Anika Akter ID: 231731
E.M Maruf Mahmud ID: 231721
Md. Aktar Zahid Sohag ID: 231745
Md Tanvir ID 231737
CASE STUDY PRACTICE ON THE GREEN
TRANSITION FOR COTTAGE, SMALL,
MICRO AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES
(CSMME) INDUSTRY: A RAPID STRATEGIC
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
Strategic Environmental Assessment
WMES-6210

2. Cottage, Small, Micro, and Medium-Sized
Enterprises (CSMME) Definition
 CSMME stands for Cottage, Small, Micro, and Medium-Sized Enterprises. These companies have a small
market share, little capital, and few employees
 The meaning of "cottage industry" in Bangladesh refers to the customary artisanship of rural communities that
work to create a variety of household items using locally sourced raw materials and creative skills that have been
passed down through the generations.
 A cottage industry is defined as a small-scale industrial unit run by family members, either full-time or part-
time, with a worker count of no more than twenty, according to the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries
Corporation (BSCIC).
 The owner is the only decision-maker, and the company is primarily run by a family or small group of people.
 Micro-businesses are informal sector companies that have a few things in common: they are family-owned,
easily accessed, operate on a small scale, prioritize labour-intensive and low-level technology, depend on local
resources, hire people without formal education, and function in an unregulated, competitive market.

3. Background statistics and information on CSMME and its
importance in the country
 Figure 1. Defined as manufacturing and service-oriented cottage, micro, and small
enterprises Industry
Category
Industry Criteria for Determining Industry Category
Total Fixed Asset Including
Replacement Cost Except Land
and Building
Number of
Employee
Cottage Manufacturing Below Tk. 10 lac Not more than 15
including family
members and others
Micro Manufacturing From Tk. 10 lac to below Tk.75 lac From 16 to 30 or less
Service Below Tk. 10 lac Maximum 15
Small Manufacturing From Tk. 75 lac to Tk.15 crore From 31 to 120
Service From Tk. 10 lac to below Tk. 2 crore From 16 to 50
Medium Manufacturing Above Tk. 15 crore but not more than
Tk. 50 crore
From 121 to 300;
Maximum 1000 for
RMG/labor intensive
industry
Service From Tk. 2 crore to Tk. 30 crore From 51 to 120

4. Current industrial policy, plan and programs on
CSMME and its environmental impacts
 • To offer CSMMEs financial and non-financial support in the form of tax breaks,
subsidies, credit guarantees, venture capital, loans without collateral, technology transfer,
skill development, market linkage, and quality certification.
 • To create the CSMME Development Council, a high-level policy-making body for
CSMMEs, and the CSMME Foundation, a one-stop shop for CSMME services.
 Role of BSCIC and other government
 • Boost productivity and industrial output in the SCI industry.
 • Provide job opportunities.
 • Reduce poverty.
 • Encourage balanced development in the area.
 • Assure the best possible use of both financial and human resources.
 • Use SCI to hasten the nation's overall economic growth.

5. Challenges and opportunities of CSMME greening and environmental
challenges, economic and social challenges.
 Utilizing or implementing ecologically friendly business methods.
 Enhancing corporate resilience to environmental shocks and challenges, including climate
change.
 Focusing on value chains, the circular economy, and green sectors while innovating and
grabbing commercial opportunities.
Objectives of the rapid CSMME
 bolstering the institutional framework and policy environment for CMSMEs.
 assisting CMSMEs in obtaining incentives and financing.
 CMSMEs' integration into local and international value chains and improved market
access.
 improving CMSMEs' technology, capabilities, and standards of quality.

6. Methodology of the study
 Content Analysis
 Group Discussion with Industrial Elites:
 Questionnaire Survey:
 Review of Literature:
 Study area
 Data collection

7. Literature review

8. Analysis: SWOT framework/DPSIR/ other framework

9. Identify policy, plan and program and
legislations to CSMME development
 Policy, plan, and program assessment
 The role of Organizations
 Role of Government
 Role of the Ministry of Industries in Monitoring
 BSCIC, CSMME Foundation and relevant Trade Bodies: Implementing Agency
 Coordination with other agencies
 Time Bound Action Plan

10. Questionnaires for Stakeholders
 1.What are the criteria for the EMP as well as EIA assessment for the organization?
 2. Who (the authority for the EMP and EIA monitoring) for the organization and the subsequent follow up? Does the
authority submit regular monitoring results and reviews of SEA?
 3. Any forest land, living community, indigenous group, vulnerable people are going to destroyed or degraded by the
advance of the project?
 4. Any kind of financial support as well as assistant is provided for the project? Whether it is green funding or not? Are
green loans provided by commercial banks really green, i.e., proclimate, pro-environment and sustainable?
 5. Physical condition such as land cover, plantation, forestation, agriculture and relevant impact as well as Soil erosion
blockage on the lining of canals?
 6. Various types of the pollution in the surrounding environment as well as the atmospheric pollution? Dust, noise from
construction equipment?
 7. Social as well as Labour-related social problems especially if workers from different areas are hired? How project plan
considers the effect on health and safety of group of people who are related to business and production?
 8. What are the social, environmental, cultural impact of the organisation regarding the tradition of Bangladesh?
 9.Public health and safety hazards due to air pollution and possible groundwater contamination? Public health hazards
from odour, smoke from fire, and diseases transmitted by flies, rodents, insects and birds, etc.?
 10. Any large dispersion of the human settlement or such impact during the establishment?
 11. Any community mixing regarding labour migration from different locality for the job can leads towards the
communicable disease’s transmission?