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Elimu Hania Mwisho
Learning has no end
- Swahili Proverb

OUR KNOWLEDGE HUB

ESRA is a professional training series in environmental and social risk, for the people who finance, structure and build projects across Africa and beyond. Every course is built on real cases — the failures, the findings, the documents that decided them — and ends not with a quiz but with applied work, marked by a human reviewer. Begin free with the primer, then progress through the Foundation and Practitioner tiers at your own pace.

ESRA SERIES

The Environmental & Social Risk Advisory learning programme provides rigorous, accountability-grounded training for development finance practitioners across emerging markets

01 / Foundation Series - the essentials of E&S risk, end to end. 

CPD-accredited entry courses providing essential grounding in E&S standards.

Free Primer

What are Environmental and Social Risk – A Primer

F-01

E&S Risk Fundamentals 

$110

F-02

Introduction to IFC Performance Standards

$110

F-03

E&S Risk Basics for Non-Specialists

$110

F-04

World Bank ESF Essentials

$110

F-05

Equator Principles IV Overview

$110

F-06

AfDB Integrated Safeguards System Essentials

$110

BUNDLE

SIX MODULES IN A VALUE PACKAGE

$440

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For Institutions & DFIs

Tailored ESRA pathways and cohort options for Universities Development Finance Institutions and Multilateral partners.

02 / Practitioner Series - deep, case-based mastery with applied capstones

For specialists requiring technical depth in assessment and monitoring.

P-01

ESMS Design & Implementation

P-02

E&S Compliance Audit

P-03

Stakeholder Engagement & GRM Design

P-04

Project Finance Documentation for E&S

P-05

ESIA & ESMP as Financial Instruments

P-06

IFC PS as the Operational Backbone of SRI

P-07

Equator Principles IV in Practice

03 / Executive Series - the strategic view, for those who oversee it

Strategic risk briefings tailored for Board Directors and Senior Leadership.

X-01

E&S for Lawyers and Legal Advisors

X-02

E&S Governance for Boards & Senior Management

X-03

Accountability Mechanisms & Legal Risk

X-04

E&S Risk as Portfolio Risk

X-05

Board-Level Oversight of E&S Risk

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