Transparent information

Furthermore, we publish information on our mode of operation and the policies we use. This includes DEG's environmental and social guidelines, information on the applicable standards (IFC Performance Standards, ILO Core Labour Standards), the complaints mechanism and the DAC list. On KfW Group's website there is a collection of guidelines which apply to the whole of the Group including the areas of sustainability, the Declaration of Human Rights and the Sustainability Report. DEG’s exclusion list, which lists activities and areas in which DEG does not invest as a matter of principle, can also be found on the DEG website.

DEG-Exclusion-List(PDF, 10 KB, non-accessible)
DEG's environmental and social guidelines
IFC Performance Standards
ILO Core Labour Standards

We continually assess the quality and impact of our investments in terms of development within the framework of our own Development Effectiveness Rating (DERa). In our annual Development Policy Report we publish the development effects of the entire DEG portfolio.

Internally and externally conducted evaluations are vital so that we can render DEG's commitments even more effective. Insights gained from the evaluations offer us and our customers the opportunity to accompany private commitments in the future in a more focused manner. DEG publishes the summary of its evaluation reports and the evaluation guideline:

We evaluate our work

www.develoPPP.de
AfricaConnect (in German)
BSS projects with BMZ funding

• name of customer (borrower; in the case of direct investments, related to the target or company invested in)
  • additional information for private equity funds: name and country of domicile of the general partner, name and country of domicile of the fund;
  • additional information for direct investments (if applicable): name and country of domicile of the investment vehicle
• target country or region,
• economic sector,
• month of signing (of the contract with DEG),
• volume of DEG's financing in EUR/USD,
• environmental and social category (A, B+, B, C),
• link to company’s website providing a summary of the environmental and social action plan in the case of land-related investments (larger renewable energy projects, agricultural investments with primary land use greater than 5,000 hectares, mining),
• customer’s website,
• short description of the investment with the following information:
  • who is our customer?
  • what will the financing be used for?
  • role of DEG: why are we financing the project?
  • role of DEG: what is the main impact (to which SDGs does the commitment contribute)?

In addition, the following applies to private equity funds co-financed by DEG on a contractual “best-effort” basis:

• Fund companies are obliged to publish investment-related information concerning:
  • name, country of domicile, economic sector
  • timing: promptly after conclusion of the contract with DEG for the entire period of DEG’s commitment
• This information is provided on the fund’s website, to which DEG’s database is linked.

The investment-related information is published at deginvest.de after the contract is signed with the customer concerned. The investment-related information constitutes in each case a summary of the investment at the time of concluding the contract. Since 2020, the investment-related information is available on DEG’s website for a period of five years. For investments committed from 2022 onwards, the investment-related summary information is available online for the entire period of the contractual relationship.

deginvest-investments.de

Since 2022, DEG publishes (at deginvest.de) information about its political stakeholder engagement in the form of summaries of discussions with stakeholders such as NGOs and members of the German Bundestag. Links are also provided to published parliamentary inquiries in which DEG is directly mentioned.

Stakeholder transparency (in German)