Environmental and Social (E&S) capacity building program

The OPEC Fund and the African Development Bank organized an Environmental and Social (E&S) capacity building program for African countries in June. The workshop brought together government officials and regulators from Benin, Burkina Faso, Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo and Uganda with representatives of multilateral development banks and international experts. 

Participants discussed ways to harmonize global and national standards, regulations and procedures in areas such as land acquisition and resettlement, biodiversity protection, cultural heritage management and environmental clearance. As a next step, the initiative will be rolled out in country missions. Read more in the next OPEC Fund Quarterly.