Eco-friendly Productive Sector Loans

Lending Guidelines
Productive Sector Loans
Caricom Development Fund (CDF)

Loans will be made available to eligible business persons/groups/entrepreneurs within the following target areas:

Environmental Conservation (including soil and water conservation, erosion contraol, air pollution control, recycling operations)
Projects with Foreign Exchange Saving/Generation potential
Agro-processing
Organic farming and “Green” Projects (including Manure and Composting and Reforestation)
Alternative Energy (including solar, wind and mini-hydro power)
Manufacturing
Eco-Tourism
Cultural Arts
Agro Forestry

To support private sector and private sector-related activities aimed at improving firm industry competitiveness, productivity and efficiency
To extend financial support to technically, economically, socially and environmental sound enterprises that are already profitable or have good prospects of becoming profitable; and
To provide technical support to eligible clients benefiting from this line of credit.

Improve firm competitiveness
Upgrade/replace plant and equipment
Re-tool/retrain the workforce
Fund project development or innovation
Achieve International Standards Organization (ISO) or Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) standards/certification
Improve marketing or carry out market assessments in CARICOM markets with a view to introducing or increasing the trade in goods/services to those markets
Finance projects in the service sector, including the “creative industries”