In partnership with the World Bank, the UEMOA Regional Mortgage Refinancing Fund (CRRH-UEMOA), organized on Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 May 2021, by videoconference, a second training workshop on “the environmental and social risk of housing loans in UEMOA” .The objective of this workshop is to reinforce the achievements of the first workshop on best practices for managing environmental and social risks of ready to live in each country of the Housing Finance Union. The meeting is part of the recommendations for the regular republication of the workshops on the environmental and social risk of housing loans from the first workshop

For Christian AGOSSA, CEO of CRRH-UEMOA, this is an opportunity to strengthen the awareness and skills of our shareholder banks and SFDs in taking environmental and social risk into account in financing housing loans. The work was organized around two themes: “Environmental and social risks in housing construction operations” and “the establishment and evaluation of the Environmental and Social Risk Management System related to housing loans”.

These modules allowed participants from all UEMOA countries, with the assistance of international experts: to deepen the key principles of environmental and social risks in housing construction operations, in the framework of the management of housing loan portfolios; to explore evaluation models and instruments for the establishment and evaluation of the environmental and social risk management system related to environmental and social risks related to environmental and social risks. Housing loans, and in particular social housing loans; to better understand and integrate the environmental and social risk monitoring sheet in loan applications submitted for refinancing by CRRH-UEMOA, while respecting the institution's list of exclusions