Process(es) for improving staff competency to implement the environmental and social policies and procedures as applied to business lines

Process(es) for improving staff competency to implement the environmental and social policies and procedures as applied to business lines

• Reference Number: FS4
• Related Status: Reported
• GRI Status: Core GRI Indicator

A total of 18 training events were conducted in 2011, spread evenly throughout the calendar year. EIB employees, and specifically staff working on project-related issues, were presented with updates on general environmental, biodiversity, social assessment and climate action topics.
The total number of attendees for all sessions was 610.
Occasional training courses were given on Policies and Standards throughout the year, namely 3 on Social Assessment, 5 on Climate Action and 2 on the E&S Handbook.
A special video training course on Climate Action was given to our Dakar regional office members.
An overview of our Awareness-Raising Seminars:
- on general environment and biodiversity:
  Training and Capacity Building of Financial Intermediaries;
  ESS Markets and Habitats Banking;
  The State of Environment in Europe
-  on climate topics:
  Projects and Climate Risks: What can IFIs do to manage these risks?;
  What would a post-2012 regime look like?;
  Combating Climate Change through Effective Waste Management
- on social matters:
  An introduction to Human Rights and the work of the EU FRA