Responsible Investments to enable entrepreneurial competitivity

 

 New: we are an officially certified Validation and Verification Body (VVB) for international Climate Protection Projects on behalf of Switzerland's Office for the Environment (FOEN).

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We advise responsible investors and public institutions, we do implementation work in Emerging Countries and create an enabling environment between Financial Institutions (FI), Technical Experts, Co-finance Stakeholders and Beneficiaries (SME). We are experienced in facilitating cash-flow based lending in the context of public-private-partnership funding schemes, by:​

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• Operating guarantees as risk reduction instrument and its stand-by-documentation (SBLC) in close cooperation with international donors and trust managers;

• Monitoring gradual guarantee redemption, in accordance with specific project needs; 

• Setting up, Operating and Monitoring reimbursements after successful (i.e. measurable) project implementation, striving for faster debt amortization;

• Ensuring constant communication between technical operations' centres, first-level banks, SME as beneficiaries and international donors as well as further partners such as second-level banks and public or private funding agencies to prevent organisational bottlenecks or fraud;

• Ensuring confidence through tailor made customer service - considered highly critical when implementing green finance projects in developing countries - and smooth operations between all stakeholders in a complex programme setup;

• Managing all types of related scientific documentation for international donors that back guarantees and reimbursements; 

• Further development of cash-flow (and asset) based productivity enhancement schemes to prepare new initiatives together with private sector Financial Intermediaries, specifically in Peru. Assessing the usefulness of other types of (co-)finance such as low interest rates, insurance coupled credit schemes, specific risk transfer schemes such as SPV, first-loss actors’ schemes leveraging more equity funds, amongst others;

• Tailor made technical assistance for SME that includes technology assesment, technical and political feasibility studies, selection of best available or applicable equipments, assistance in environmental accounting, assessment along the on-site implementation work, ex-ante and ex-post impact measurement using specific environmental indicators (e.g. CO2, VOC, PM10, BOD5) in order to facilitate management decisions, post-sales consultancy.