Green Gets Mainstream

With the presentation of the updated Green Index 2.0 and the coverage it got during last week's European Microfinance Week, the environmental dimension of inclusive finance is getting more and more attention.

Interesting new on-line course available for free

If you want to know more about the concepts of 'just banking' or responsible finance, triple bottom line banking, etcetera, this might be a great place to go - see video below: 

Training Slides Environmental Management and MFIs

On November 18th, 2015, the first training on Environmental Management and Microfinance was facilitated by the Environmental Action Group of the e-MFP. Click here to open the presentation as a pdf.

Measuring Environmental Performance in Microfinance

An array of qualitative green microfinance indicators is available for microfinance institutions (MFIs) to assess their green management performance, track progress over time, as well as to gain a broad overview of current and future trends: MIX’s green performance indicators, the Green Index, the Green Performance Agenda and the forthcoming Progress out of Energy Poverty Index. While the sector abounds with a diverse set of qualitative tools for green performance monitoring, it falls short of the same variety of quantitative indicators. To date, MFIs that aim to track the outcome and outreach of their green management lack a set of established metrics that is legitimized by the sector.

Recognizing this gap, MIX and a subgroup of the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP) Microfinance & Environment Action Group designed a survey to explore quantitative green microfinance indicators relative to six axes with the aim of assessing their ease of use and relevance for decision-making. 

Click HERE to read more.

Publication on Green Inclusive Finance

A Publication on the current status, trends and opportunities of Green Inclusive Finance was presented at the recent conference of the Dutch Platform for Inclusive Finance.

The full conference materials can be found here. 

Click here to open a pdf of the publication.

Green Training at European Microfinance Platform Conference

For those who follow the training using the GPA, please click here to proceed and download your own version of the GPA.

Social Performance Taskforce Meeting in Cambodia

The Green Performance Agenda was presented at the SPTF meeting in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on 10 June 2015. The slides that our presenters used can be found here:

• Introduction presentation
• Prasac's presentation
• Indonesian GPA project presentation 

HIVOS has the intention to further develop the green initiative - to get a better impression about HIVOS' and Enclude's plans, please see this reader.


Please contact Leo Soldaat (lsoldaat@hivos.org) or Geert Schuite (gjschuite@encludesolutions.com) for more information.