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April 24, 2025
Laying the Groundwork for Lozova’s Sustainable Water Future
As the war in Ukraine continues, municipalities are under immense pressure to address immediate needs while planning for sustainable recovery. In the city of Lozova, located in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, one of the most pressing challenges is to modernise its ageing water supply and wastewater systems.
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February 17, 2025
Preventing and responding to Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment: new good practice handbook
Since 2019, the Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation and Swedfund have been working together to strengthen Swedfund's ability to identify, prevent and respond to risks of sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (SEAH) in its investment portfolio and operations. One key result in this partnership is the publication of the Good Practice Handbook on the Prevention of and Response to SEAH, a practical guide to help fund managers, investment platforms and financial institutions address SEAH risks.
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March 27, 2024
Vocies for Development Finance: Swedfund's Annual Report 2023
Swedfund, Sweden’s development finance institution, has published its integrated annual report for 2023: Voices for Development Finance. With a growing portfolio, increased job growth and a continued focus on climate, gender equality and digitalisation, the report showcases the impact of Swedfund’s results from 2023.
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May 16, 2023
Marie Aglert new Head of Investment at Swedfund
Swedfund, which is Sweden's development finance institution for sustainable investments in developing countries, has a new investment manager who will lead the investment organization: Marie Aglert. She comes most recently from the Swedish Export Credit Agency, EKN, where she was Director Large Corporates.
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December 8, 2022
Swedfund cooperation with Escom Malawi for transmission project upgrade
Swedfund Project Accelerator cooperates with Escom Malawi on an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA), as part of developing the Eastern Backbone transmission grid upgrade project. By improving the grid, more people and industries can get reliable access to power and the conditions to integrate more renewable generation will be improved. This is important because load on the grid increases with energy mix and transition to renewables that mean more unstable flows.
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April 3, 2020
Swedfund is reporting on implementation of IFC’s Operating Principles for Impact Management
The nine Principles for Impact Management were developed by International Finance Corporation, IFC, and a group of asset owners, managers and allocators to describe essential features of managing investments into companies or organizations with the intent to contribute to measurable positive social or environmental impact alongside financial returns. The principles are underpinned by five stages – strategy, origination and structuring, portfolio management, exit, and independent verification.
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April 8, 2019
Solar power to 360 million people – but no plan for e-waste
The off-grid solar power market is providing improved electricity access to an estimated 73 million households globally, or over 360 million people*. The industry is delivering a significant environmental and social impact by mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from traditional diesel power sources and providing reliable, clean energy to low- to middle-income countries. However, there are potential negative environmental and social impacts if the products are not responsibly managed when they reach their end-of-Life.
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June 7, 2018
Swedfund’s Integrated Report wins international award
Swedfund has been awarded the RI Award for Best Report by an Asset Owner: medium & small funds, for their Integrated Report at the RI Reporting Awards 2018, presented at RI Europe on Tuesday 5th June. The prize is given to institutional investment companies with transparent reporting. Swedfund was chosen among 2,500 world-wide reports.
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May 25, 2018
Swedwatch report highlights important issues
Swedwatch has presented an updated briefing report on the human rights impacts of Buchanan Renewables Fuel in Liberia in conjunction with Vattenfall and Swedfund’s exit of the project in 2012.
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November 8, 2017
Swedwatch report highlights important issues
Swedwatch has presented a research report around the human rights impact from Swedfund’s investment in Addax Bioenergy during the investment period and in connection with the exit in 2015.