Capacity building for environmenatal impact assessment and clean development mechanism initiatives

EIB’s fifth credit line (EUR 60 million) to BOAD supports regional projects in energy, industry, transport, agribusiness, tourism and other sectors, with a specific focus on environmentally sustainable projects. Individual projects will be able to borrow up to EUR 5 million under favourable conditions. Private sector projects will be able to access funds at market rates. Public infrastructure projects, with a regional or environmental focus, will be able to benefit from an interest rate subsidy, under regular arrangements to alleviate borrowing costs for Heavily Indebted Poor Countries in the region. The EIB funding will cover 50% of the project costs.

The overarching objective of the EU-AITF TA Operation is to contribute to further vertical and horizontal integration within BOAD’s climate strategy. The TA Operation, as defined in the preliminary study (“BOAD – Phase I”) will contribute to:

(1) Development and implementation of an environmental and social strategy (encompassing climate, environment and social risk management, as well as climate-specific project finance) which will allow BOAD to institutionalize its environmental and social management system.

(2) Development and implementation of tools, processes and operational plans to allow for climate-specific project finance; the evaluation of climate, environmental and social risks; as well as the identification of financing opportunities for climate projects within BOAD’s framework of current projects.