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This course aims to strengthen your understanding of financial inclusion and provide you with an approach to make financial services markets more inclusive. It is designed for funders’ staff. It is also appropriate for facilitators and implementers (staff and governance).
Duration: 3 hours
This session will explore in the first hour the typical areas of the local financial ecosystem for INTPA and EUDs colleagues to be aware, when looking to support access to finance for MSMEs.
Duration: 1 h 30 min
This webinar is destined to EC Staff in HQ and DEL.
These guidelines have been produced by the Directorate-General for International Partnerships — Private Sector and Trade unit. The improvement of the investment climate and business environment reforms (BER) have therefore become important and recurrent elements of EU actions in development cooperation, along with the numerous existing interventions in support of private sector and trade development at micro, meso and macro levels.
Tools and Methods Series, Guidelines No 9
Version, February 2020
Business incubators nurture the development of entrepreneurial companies, helping them survive and grow during the start-up period, when they are most vulnerable. Their programs provide client companies with business support services and resources tailored to young firms.
Duration: 50 min
Cooperatives enterprises are a peculiar model of private sector organizations, present in all economic fields. Their business model is by construction centered on the triple bottom line of financial, social and environmental impact. They often focus on the poorer and more discriminated sectors of society and act as a bridge between the informal and formal economies.
Duration: 1 h 30 min
This webinar is destined to EC Staff in HQ and DEL.
The session on Decent Work and Social Dialogue aims at increasing the awareness of the EU staff involved in development cooperation programmes on how to understand and implement in their projects the concept of decent work and how to use social dialogue in order to improve the efficiency, transparency and ownership of the EU support to partner countries.
Duration: 2 h
This course introduces the basic concepts of the European Fund for Sustainable Development Plus (EFSD+). This course also presents concrete examples of projects supported through combined forms of financial support of the EFSD+, as well as information on the aims of the investment windows and project cycles.
Duration: 2 h
This course is destined to EU staff in HQ and delegations.
The audience will learn about the principles and basic terminology of sustainable development finance, specially for the use of EFSD+ for investment projects for sustainable development. In this context, the audience will also gain insight into the specificities of EFSD+ concerning the corresponding the different financing instruments used and the most important aspects for negotiation and approval.
Duration: 2 h 15 minThis course is destined to EU staff in HQ and delegations.
The audience will learn about the general aspects, the best practices and information sources for the implementation of EFSD+ for investment projects of sustainable development, specifically in the context of EU Delegations. The audience will gain insight into the proactive involvement, the responsibilities and the stakeholders implied within EFSD+ from the perspective of an EU Delegation.
Duration: 40 minThis course is destined to EU staff in HQ and delegations.
The audience will learn the general aspects about the cooperation between the European Investment Bank (EIB) and DG INTPA of the European Commission within the EFSD+ investment framework, as well as the specific instrument of guarantees and the corresponding investment windows. The audience will complement this knowledge with the learning of experiences and insights of diverse examples of operations in Latin America, Africa and the Asian Pacific.
Duration: 1 h 30 minThis course is destined to EU staff in HQ and delegations.