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ESG, capital and the frameworks investors use

Module 01 / 5 · 60 min · Free preview

See why DFIs, foreign investors and lenders price ESG into Ethiopian deals, and learn the frameworks they use to judge a transaction.

In this module you will learn to

  • Explain how ESG performance reaches a deal through access to capital, pricing and execution risk
  • Distinguish the IFC Performance Standards, the Equator Principles, SASB materiality and ISSB (IFRS S1 and S2) and say when each applies
  • Assign an IFC environmental and social risk category to an Ethiopian project and justify it
  • Recognise greenwashing risk in a client's claims and in a labelled offer

Built on

  • Erudite Africa course specification 3.k: ESG Integration in Investment Banking, Levels 1 and 2 (October 2026)
  • Erudite Africa Training Module: Ethiopian Context, programme overview and regulatory register (October 2026)
  • NBE Directive No. SBB/91/2024 (Bank Corporate Governance); ECMA Directive No. 1030/2024 (reported); Environmental Impact Assessment Proclamation No. 299/2002, Environmental Pollution Control Proclamation No. 300/2002 and Labour Proclamation No. 1156/2019, as cited in the course specification
  • World Bank Group: Ethiopia Country Climate and Development Report (2024); A Review of Industrial Parks in Ethiopia (2022); Making Ethiopia's Financial Sector Work for Women (2024)
  • IFC Performance Standards, Equator Principles (EP4), ICMA Green, Social and Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles, loan market sustainability-linked loan principles, SASB, ISSB IFRS S1 and S2, TCFD and UN PRI (general market practice)

Examples and companies are fictional. Bank practices are shown as typical Ethiopian practice, not as any one bank's policy. Always apply your own institution's approved policy and the current NBE directives.