Together with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Monkey Forest Consulting the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) is organising a series of capacity building workshops for local environmental consultancies in Albania, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Mongolia, Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine. The workshops will focus on the following:
(i) The EBRD's environmental, health and safety, and social (EHSS) policies, procedures and due diligence requirements, including project monitoring,
(ii) A summary of the International Financial Institution (IFI) banking and investment processes, clarifying the differences in the environmental and social requirements related to different investment types,
(iii) The legal mechanisms through which the EBRD and others IFIs agree on, covenant, and ensure actions that are designed to manage risk and drive compliance with their respective policies,
(iv) Sector-specific EHSS issues faced by IFI clients, and
(v) Basic EHSS consulting skills, including the contracting requirements of the EBRD.
The workshops will include the participation of both EBRD staff and senior international environmental, social and health and safety experts. The planned workshops dates are as follows:
Date Location
23-27 February Tirana International Hotel; Tirana, Albania,
2-6 March Panorama Zagreb Hotel; Zagreb, Croatia,
13-17 April Ankara, Turkey
18-22 May Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
25-29 May, Kiev, Ukraine
15-19 June Belgrade, Serbia
TBD Skopje,former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
TBD Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
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