It’s FMO’s strategy to contribute to a world in which, in 2050, more than 9 billion people live well and within the means of the planet’s resources. Our strategy calls on us to create a higher impact portfolio, deepen our relationships and increase productivity.
Through our financing and investments, we enhance our and others’ impact and can contribute to a sustainable society on a liveable planet. We support the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and aim to contribute to their achievement through our mission and activities. In doing so, we focus on three key SDGs: creating decent work and economic growth (SDG 8), reducing inequalities (SDG 10) and taking climate action (SDG 13). For climate action, FMO’s ambition is to have an investment portfolio which is aligned with a 1.5֯ pathway. One way to support this ambition is to grow our ‘green’ portfolio, which is aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing resource efficiency, preserving and growing natural capital, and supporting climate adaptation.
Contributing to this Green ambition, FMO works through its Financial Institutions (FI) portfolio with local banks, microfinance institutions (MFIs) and non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) on green credit lines and green bonds. As FIs in emerging markets face challenges in shifting towards greener portfolios, FMO intends to support its clients by extending green lines, and to support them with high quality Capacity Development (CD) support. Through this Request for Proposals (RFP) FMO is looking to select up to two service providers (SPs) (alone or as lead consortium member) that can support FMO’s FI customers on their green finance journey, whether they have just started understanding the green opportunities, or whether they want to become the Green Bank in their country.
FMO aims to sign a framework agreement with the service providers and per specific assignment, the responsible SP is requested to co-develop a detailed task order to be approved by FMO and the respective FI.
We encourage Service Providers to submit their proposal; the RFP document outlines in more detail the request, the proposal requirements, process and timelines.