Oversight bodies

How we direct, administer, and regulate our work at CIFI reveals who we are and what we stand for. We have developed processes and policies to meet our obligations and reflect our mission.

CIFI’s Board of Directors actively oversees the portfolio’s performance concerning environmental and social risks through its Credit and Risk Committees. Also, each of the key senior management units has an important role in the identification, assessment, and management of E&S risks in the project cycle. The ESG Unit plays a central role in ensuring the effective implementation of our environmental and social policies and procedures.

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Our Risk Management Framework

Our Risk Management Framework imposes a comprehensive Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS), which policies and processes help us meet our commitment to sustainability consistently.

Our Risk Management Framework imposes a comprehensive Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS), which policies and processes help us meet our commitment to sustainability consistently.

ESMS

CIFI has fully incorporated an Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS) into its investment cycle founded upon its Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) policy commitments, performance standards enunciated in the latest version of the Equator Principles (EPs), and the Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability of the International Finance Corporation 2012 (IFC PS). Through the ESMS, CIFI seeks to ensure the projects it finances rest on sound, equitable environmental and social systems that contribute to sustainable growth in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Policies

CIFI’S ESG policies and processes is the result from years of experience in making responsible investments.

Policies

CIFI’S ESG policies and processes is the result from years of experience in making responsible investments.

CIFI is committed to mainstream sustainability in its operations by building environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into the investment process through a comprehensive ESG risk assessment, that propose mitigation strategies to minimize such risks and impacts and guide our clients through its implementation while maximizing positive environmental and social outcomes whenever possible.

CIFI is committed to ensuring that the projects, it finances or advices, are developed in a manner that respects human rights, are socially responsible and reflect sound environmental management practices.

CIFI is committed to mainstream sustainability in its operations by building environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into the investment process through a comprehensive ESG risk assessment, that propose mitigation strategies to minimize such risks and impacts and guide our clients through its implementation while maximizing positive environmental and social outcomes whenever possible.

CIFI is committed to ensuring that the projects, it finances or advices, are developed in a manner that respects human rights, are socially responsible and reflect sound environmental management practices.

CIFI fully acknowledges the financial sector’s responsibility for achieving the Paris Agreement’s objectives on climate change through its investment decisions and its corporate operations and mitigation plans. Furthermore, CIFI, has decided to spearhead the necessary transition of financial institutions in Latin America and seeks to raise ambitions when it comes to aligning its portfolio with a 1.5°C economy.

CIFI fully acknowledges the financial sector’s responsibility for achieving the Paris Agreement’s objectives on climate change through its investment decisions and its corporate operations and mitigation plans. Furthermore, CIFI, has decided to spearhead the necessary transition of financial institutions in Latin America and seeks to raise ambitions when it comes to aligning its portfolio with a 1.5°C economy.

ESG Standards

Our Standards
for Sustainability

Recognizing that private sector investment is critical to fostering sustainable development, CIFI is committed to pursuing investment practices that respond to high international standards of environmental and social sustainability.
We promote sustainable corporate governance and work with our clients to help them adopt good practices that meet internationally recognized standards.

Process

Learn more about how we integrate ESG factors
in the investment Process.

ESG risk management is embedded in the business cycle from origination to portfolio supervision. ESG provides opinions prior to Pipeline Committee, engages in an E&S due diligence along with legal and business officers, and provides an opinion for credit committee. All conditions agreed with the client in the E&S action plan will be included in the legal documentation and shall be met in its due course of a timeline according to the level of risk.

ESG risk management is embedded in the business cycle from origination to portfolio supervision. ESG provides opinions prior to Pipeline Committee, engages in an E&S due diligence along with legal and business officers, and provides an opinion for credit committee. All conditions agreed with the client in the E&S action plan will be included in the legal documentation and shall be met in its due course of a timeline according to the level of risk.