News
- UNEP FI’s 2009 Global Roundtable “Changing Finance, Financing Change”
22-23 October, 2009 | Cape Town, South Africa
UNEP FI’s biannual Global Roundtable was held on the African continent for the very first time in 2009. The Roundtable’s theme, “Financing Change, Changing Finance”, framed discussions around the financial crisis and upcoming opportunities for financial institutions, crucially in light of the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference, COP 15, taking place in Copenhagen in December 2009. The Global Roundtable gathered senior African delegates from the worlds of finance and politics to deliver a message from ‘Cape Town to Copenhagen’ from African business and insurance, investment and banking communities.
- Introductory Training Workshop on Environmental and Social Risk Analysis
21 October, 2009 | Cape Town, South Africa
This is the first time that UNEP FI convened a training workshop in Africa, seeking to train risk analysts and managers who work for Financial Institutions from all over the world on how to identify and manage social and environmental risks and opportunities in their lending and investment operations.
About
UNEP FI launched its African Task Force in Midrand, South Africa, in January 2002.
The African Task Force is focused on setting sustainability priorities for the African financial sector and the overall integration of a triple bottom line approach to the operations of the African financial sector.
The UNEP FI African Task Force members have led the way on ground-breaking projects such as:
- Innovative financing for sustainable small and medium enterprises in Africa;
- Narrowing the gap: A survey of barriers and drivers to commercial microfinance in Africa;
- The State of Responsible Investment in South Africa;
- Banking on Value: A New Approach to Credit Risk in Africa.
The African Task Force 2010 work programme is focused on climate change and water issues on the continent. Projects will be undertaken in collaboration with the Climate Change Working Group and the Water and Finance Working Group, to deliver expertise on these subjects in Africa and the Middle East.
Training
UNEP FI has a range of training offerings, both online and in workshop format, covering the following themes: Environmental and Social Risk Analysis, Corporate Ecoefficiency and Climate Change. The African Task Force and partners are currently working on the adaptation and translation of our Environmental and Social Risk Analysis training into French, to better serve Francophone members and institutions in Africa, and in the course of 2010, will deliver several training and outreach events in Africa.
View details on UNEP FI's different training programmes.
Members
| Financial Sector Members |
Associate Members |
| Access Bank Plc. (Nigeria) |
Africa Investor (UK) |
| Bank of Industry Ltd. (Nigeria) |
African Institute for Corporate Citizenship (South Africa) |
| BMCE Bank (Morocco) |
Banking Association South Africa (South Africa) (Co-Chair) |
| Citigroup (South Africa) |
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| Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) (South Africa) |
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| Fidelity Bank Plc. (Nigeria) |
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| Industrial Development Corporation (South Africa) |
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| Nedbank (South Africa) (Co-Chair) |
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| Oceanic Bank International Plc. (Nigeria) (Co-Chair) |
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| Société Générale (France) |
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| Standard Bank Group (South Africa) |
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| Standard Chartered Bank (South Africa) |
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| The Netherlands Finance Corporation (FMO) (Netherlands) |
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| UBA Foundation (Nigeria) |
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| Zenith Bank Plc. (Nigeria) |
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Contact
Jessica Jacob
africa [at] unepfi.org
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