Mandate
Promoting investments with lasting development impact
DEG's purpose is to promote private enterprise initiative in developing and transition countries as a contribution to sustainable growth and a lasting improvement in the living conditions of the local population. Therefore, we provide long-term capital and advice for private enterprises investing in those countries.
We only take on commitments in projects that make an effective development policy impact, meet environmental standards and comply with social principles. We are particularly committed to our developmental mandate and our guidelines for social and environmental sustainability: they form the decisive frame of our work.
In certain cases, which are summarised in our exclusion list, financing by DEG is excluded from the outset. The list is an integral part of the environmental and social standards adjusted on the basis of the "EDFI Principles for Responsible Financing", which apply within the scope of the European Development Finance Institutions for jointly financed projects.
