BASE developed a capacity building program to raise the knowledge and skills of professionals within private financial institutions in order to help banks understand and assess the opportunities and risks, as well as to overcome perception barriers, associated with financing sustainable energy. 

The program is focused on Latin America and Africa. The pilot programs are implemented in Mexico, Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco.

This strategy includes the creation of a multisector, local think-tank to create synergies that could strengthen the project and provide a platform for further long-term initiatives that stimulate development of the sustainable energy market. The training programme aims to train financiers as well as insurers on managing sustainable energy financing and risk mitigation, providing in-depth and personalised training through a series of seminars and targeting a specific sector of the market and the most profitable technologies.