About
This blog is maintained by Mehrdad Nazari (MSc, MBA, LEAD Fellow), Prizma’s Senior ESIA, CSR & GRI Advisor and Director. Mehrdad was previously Head of CSR Research at CoreRatings (London, now Innovest/DNV), Principal Environmental Specialist at the European Bank (EBRD, London), and Project Manager at Dames & Moore (Frankfurt, now URS).
Prizma is a niche ESIA & CSR consulting and coaching practice (established in 2004). We work with organizations to ensure that their operations and investments in emerging markets meet and exceed recognized international environmental, social and transparency benchmarks. These include particularly IFC Performance Standards, the Equator Principles (EP2), the EBRD Performance Requirements and the Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) sustainability reporting framework.
Our client engagement often involves coaching, bankable risk/impact assessment studies (ESIA/SEAs), readiness assessments (preparation for project finance related due diligence, independent engineer review, audits), public consultation, community development, NGO partnership building and related activities.
Our team of experts have typically 15 -30 years of senior-level, international experience working on capital projects which were successfully co-financed by the EBRD, IFC, Export Credit Agencies (such as Export Development Canada – EDC) and financial institutions which have adopted the Equator Principles.
We also provide advanced training on the application of global guidelines and benchmarks, and coach first-time CSR and sustainability reporters.
