ENVIRONMENTAL &
SOCIAL RISK ADVISORY
Context Focused | Outcomes Driven
Environmental & Social Risk Management Solutions
ESRA offers E&S risk management advisory services to development finance and financial institutions, equity/investment funds and project developers. This offering includes E&S due diligence assessments, management systems development and implementation, performance monitoring and resettlement planning and land acquisition assistance – all in accordance with international standards and prevailing best practice. Given the various project contexts that we work in, ESRA fully subscribes to the philosophy that these risk management strategies must be pragmatic and practicable, and ultimately ensure that clients can demonstrate continuous improvement in their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance. Our solutions are context-focused and outcomes-driven.
What We Do
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Safeguards & Standards
Utilising our in-depth knowledge of the E&S Safeguards and Performance Standards that most financial institutions, equity and investment funds adhere to, we ensure that these norms and industry best practices are reflected in our risk management approaches.
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Transaction Support
ESRA provides due diligence, risk assessment, performance monitoring and specialist expert assistance across a range of industries and sectors to financial institutions, project owners and investors in all stages of the project development or investment lifecycle.
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Performance Monitoring
Knowing that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure”, ESRA ensures that E&S performance monitoring metrics and reporting outputs are context-specific, adequately informed and evidence-based.
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Management Systems
Understanding that an effective management system is a prerequisite for mitigating your E&S risks and demonstrating continuous improvement, we devote a substantial amount of our time developing and implementing these systems as part of our service offering.
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Technical Assistance
ESRA has established long-term relationships with our clients, government, and civil society stakeholders in many African countries, which allows us to provide ongoing technical assistance and support on a project-by-project basis.
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Capacity Building
Skills transfer and capacity building is a fundamental and critical aspect of our work – not only in terms of what we impart through our daily and project-related interactions with others, but also in what we learn from them.
