Resources

This article illustrates how Assilassimé Solidarité, in Togo, implements Environmental Performance Management in practice, with a particular focus on sustainable agriculture and access to energy.

This annual report published by ACLEDA Bank in Cambodia is a good example of how an institution tracks on a regular basis the adverse impacts of its internal activities on the environment, in terms of paper usage, energy consumption, water, business travel and CO2 emissions.

This note, published by IFAD, provides guidance on how to develop financial services for access to renewable energy technologies in rural areas. It focuses on end-user finance for individual/stand-alone RE solutions for rural households, smallholder farmers, and rural micro, small and medium enterprises. The note provides specific recommendations to FSPs for financial product design and project implementation.

This report creates a new benchmark that consists of the data from 72 microfinance institutions from this year’s cohort. For each indicator included in our Index, we calculated the average performance of the participating microfinance institutions, weighing each MFI’s performance equally. The benchmark figure itself is the mean
or average. These benchmarks are at the heart of this report and they give the clearest picture of what social outcomes are, and are not, being achieved by MFIs.