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Encouraging banking sector participation in climate finance, the case of Kenya
The development of energy resources and energy efficiency in Kenya is a current necessity as well as a big challenge. To meet that challenge, Kenya's Association of Manufacturers (KAM) has partnered w...
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Pooling – an innovative way of releasing capital for renewable energy in India
The Indian government's electrification plans offers major opportunities for renewable energies, with small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) best placed to meet them. They, however, face challenges...
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Chile, a case of market-driven transition to renewables
Chile has seen an astonishing surge in renewable energy production. Key factors underlying this success: an abundance of natural resources, an open energy market and a robust regulatory framework, com...
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Towards carbon risk and climate performance recognition in the financial sector
Despite the clear need for their involvement, finance-industry players currently remain largely disengaged from the investment needs of the low-carbon economy. ‘Carbon risk' and ‘climate performance'...
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Green bonds – a promising tool for climate finance
The green bonds market is booming – boosting the growing flows of private capital being channelled towards energy transition and with the potential, ultimately, to encourage the direct financing of gr...
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Adapting to climate-change: the private sector can contribute
Adapting to climate change is one of the greatest challenges of this century – its effects are already evident and widespread, and the developing world is particularly vulnerable. Multilateral develop...
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Tomorrow's Africa: secondary and tertiary education, the catalyst for change
Africa countries have made huge strides in providing universal access to primary schooling, but secondary and tertiary educational opportunities lag far behind – creating enormous development challeng...
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$ 40 billion needed to reduce global deforestation
Private financing for sustainable forest management is far greater than public financing, but still falls far short of what is needed to halve global deforestation by 2020. There is a serious informat...
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Meeting the challenge of funding the transition to low-carbon, climate-resilient societies
Current funding levels are insufficient to limit global warming to 2°C above pre-industrial levels, despite resources such as some of the Kyoto Protocol mechanisms. For a successful transition to a lo...
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Towards an intercultural approach to CSR in Africa
By virtue of their specific cultural imperatives and practices, African businesses are invested with a social mission, extending beyond their exclusively economic role. At a time when a more corporate...
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An agribusiness group pioneering CSR practice in Africa
The example of the Côte d'Ivoire group SIFCA demonstrates that CSR is a guarantee of sustainability and functions as a performance lever for companies. Since 2007, SIFCA has been committed to sustaina...
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Boosting CSR in African SMEs: the experience of an impact investor
African SMEs often lack the funding to put formal CSR policies in place, but doing so could help them to achieve greater economic success and boost their impact on development. As well as providing fu...
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Processing of customer complaints
Proparco establishes and maintains in an operational state a procedure for handling complaints, which are defined as the expression of dissatisfaction (excluding requests for information, opinions or...
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From aid to partnership: Lafarge's CSR programme in sub-Saharan Africa
Industrial ecology is a major component of Lafarge's corporate social responsibility programme in sub- Saharan Africa – alongside initiatives promoting safety at work, healthcare and education. The gr...
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Taking over at the helm of a company: duties, challenges and solutions
The issue of taking over at the helm of a company has long been – and is still today – a taboo in Africa. When the time comes to appoint a successor, it is often perceived as being the end of the worl...
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Propulse: a range of support to maximise the positive impact of our financings
Proparco uses Propulse to help its clients deploy their projects or improve their practices by providing targeted strategic or technical assistance tailored to their challenges. The aim is to boost th...
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Good governance: accelerating growth and sustainable development
Good governance principles and a management infrastructure are vital to reflection on sustainable development requirements and to ensuring they are properly applied. It is the very essence of a partic...
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Good corporate governance practices: constantly developing
Corporate governance appeared in the 1970s and has become a core component of the functioning of the private sector. It is both a process and a conceptual and organizational framework and is based on...
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“I’m hopeful about emerging companies entering the world of venture capitalbacked start-ups”
Twiga Foods is a B2B marketplace platform that sources produce – initially only bananas – from farmers at above-market prices and delivers them to retailers at below-market prices, accomplished throug...
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