Environmental & Social Action Plan (ESAP) Development in Kenya

Our process begins by validating each ESDD finding with management and confirming the applicable legal, investor and lender requirements. We then assess risk, define the corrective outcome and agree a realistic implementation sequence.

The result is a working management and transaction tool: ESDD identifies the gaps; the ESAP defines how they will be closed; implementation support and monitoring demonstrate progress.

• Validate findings and establish root causes
• Prioritise actions by severity, urgency and transaction significance
• Assign an accountable owner and required resources
• Set deadlines, milestones and completion indicators
• Align pre-disbursement and post-closing commitments
• Monitor evidence, delays and residual risk

Each action should be specific enough for management, investors and independent reviewers to agree when it is complete. Broad commitments such as “improve safety” are replaced with defined assessments, controls, training, records and verification.

We connect action-plan costs and timing to operating plans and, where relevant, financial models and transaction documents. This avoids commitments that are technically attractive but unfunded or unrealistic.

Where applicable, actions can be mapped to IFC Performance Standards, World Bank Group EHS Guidelines, Kenyan requirements, Equator Principles-aligned expectations and specific DFI standards. The framework is confirmed for each engagement rather than assumed.

The ESAP can support conditions precedent, conditions subsequent, investment approvals, portfolio monitoring and lender reporting. It does not replace permits, legal advice or specialist technical studies where required.

An ESAP creates value only when actions are delivered. Point Capital can support action owners, evidence registers, progress reviews, management reporting and updates to investors or lenders. If an action is delayed, we help assess the cause, interim controls and revised completion route.