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An introductory training workshop on Environmental and Social Risk Analysis (ESRA) took place during the Green Economy Week in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) on November 13th, 2019. The workshop was organized by UNEP FI, the Ecobanking Project of INCAE Business School, in the framework of the Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) activities in Kyrgyzstan. The workshop was organized in collaboration with Union of Banks of Kyrgyzstan, PAGE, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and BIOFIN. This was the first ESRA workshop in the country and was delivered in English and Russian.
The purpose of this event was to sensitize the personnel of banks and micro-finance institutions in Kyrgyzstan about the consequences and opportunities generated by the identification and evaluation of the socio-environmental risks of their clients and / or investment partners, and in turn to teach the participants how to detect, reduce and evaluate said risks through tools used by international financial institutions.
Participants’ feedback after the training was good and…
