
How to avoid overestimating SPI scores?
Best practices for quality results. To carry out a qualitative social and environmental performance audit, having some good reflexes can make a difference. Objective analysis is key to ensuring a good quality audit and properly supporting financial service providers (FSPs) in assessing and improving their practices. It is indeed very common to have a tendency to…
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Finish your audits on SPI Online
Exceptional communication for SPI Online users As you probably know, the new version of SPI Online fully aligned with Universal Standards 3.0, will be available soon. The new SPI platform will be officially launched in early 2023. This is an exceptional communication to avoid any risk of data loss in the transition phase to…
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Environmental Performance Management in practice #4
See all of our articles in this series! Article #1 – The experience of Assilassimé Solidarité, in Togo Article #2 – The experience of UBTEC, in Burkina Faso Article #3 – The experience of ENDA Tamweel, in Tunisia — The experience of CRECER IFD in Bolivia In February 2022, Cerise+SPTF released the updated Universal Standards….
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Outcomes Management Workshop Series
By Cerise SDG Lab, in collaboration with the e-MFP Investors Action Group and SPTF. On September 13th and 20th, 2022, Cerise SDG Lab hosted two webinars with investors and financial service providers to discuss the way to harmonize and push for outcomes management. Both workshops will contribute toward a minimum set of standard indicators to…
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Measuring the results of an energy access project
The experience of Enda Tamweel, in Tunisia Enda Tamweel, a pioneering institution of inclusive finance in Tunisia, has been committed for several years to the promotion of ecological practices and activities (see our article on this topic). In 2019, with the support of ADA and MicroEnergy International, the organization developed a new financial product: Eco-chams…
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