Training

Environmental & Social Risk Analysis (ESRA) E-Learning Programme NEW!

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The ESRA programme provides in-depth and personalised training. Tutors engage with participants online on a daily basis, providing guidance and facilitating debates. As a participant, you will be involved in a range of activities, from simulating implementation of environmental and social policies and guidelines and analysing case studies, to carrying out exercises based on your own clients’ environmental and social impacts.

Upcoming Courses in English   (» courses in Spanish)

Target audience: Risk managers and analysts in commercial, corporate, investment and retail banking in or dealing with developing countries and emerging markets.

A limited number of places are also available for representatives from relevant stakeholder audiences including: supervisory/regulatory bodies, banking associations, government agencies, academic institutions, NGOs and civil society organisations involved in finance and sustainability issues.

Please note that places for non-financial institution representatives are limited. Courses will not address how to financially analyse or how to set up a business plan for an environmental/socially oriented project in search of funding. The courses teach participants how to include environmental and social variables in the traditional analysis made by financial analysts when making lending and/or investment decisions, whatever the nature of the project.

Contents: Each course is made up of five consecutive modules:

1. Introduction to sustainable finance
2. Identification of environmental and social risks
3. Risk classification
4. Assessment of environmental and social risks
5. Environmental and social risk management

Course contents and materials can only be accessed by participants. The course modules cannot be disaggregated.

Course Programme (PDF: 34KB)

Duration: Three weeks

Time commitment: Two hours/day on average

Timetable: Flexible, participants to set their own study times

Cost:

¹The Partners of the ESRA E-Learning Programme are UNEP FI, INCAE, Ecobanking, InWEnt and FMO.
Applicants eligible for this fee level are, for instance, UNEP FI Signatories.

Please note that course fees serve exclusively to cover the costs of running the Programme.

Applications: All applications should be submitted via our online form at least one week prior to the course you wish to participate in. Please consult our FAQs concerning applications.

On-line registration: English Spanish

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The ESRA E-Learning Programme is a product of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), Capacity Building International(InWent), and the INCAE Business School, with the support of the Ecobanking Project. Initially developed in Spanish in 2006 by the UNEP FI Latin American Regional Task Force, with the support of Bank of America, the English-language edition of the course was produced in 2007 thanks to the support of FMO.

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Course Programme
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