Screening & Due Diligence

Structured screening for every counterparty, project, and proposal

Configurable criteria, document review, and AI-assisted findings — built for the speed and rigour that development finance and compliance teams need.

The platform

One platform. A single screening pipeline.

Screening runs as one connected sequence — from the criteria you set to the report you export. Four stages, one auditable record.

Stage 01

Configure criteria

Define your screening criteria once, then apply them consistently across every counterparty, project, or application.

Stage 02

Collect & review documents

Request, receive, and review documents in a structured workflow. AI-assisted review flags gaps against your active criteria.

Stage 03

Record structured findings

Every screening produces a findings record — flagged items, evidence links, reviewer notes, and an overall status.

Stage 04

Export reports & track portfolio

Generate a clean report for any screening, and track your full portfolio of subjects, statuses, and decisions over time.

Screening types

Configured for your context

The same platform handles three distinct screening types. Each applies the right criteria, document set, and findings structure for the subject.

01 Projects

Project & Programme screening

Screen investments, projects, and multi-year programmes against environmental, social, and governance standards. Aligned to IFC Performance Standards, ESRS, and custom policy overlays.

02 Proposals

Application & Proposal review

Assess funding applications and proposals submitted for review. Structured criteria scoring replaces ad hoc judgment.

03 Suppliers

Supplier & Partner due diligence

Run systematic due diligence on vendors, counterparts, and implementing partners. Sanctions checks, document review, and policy alignment — all in one record.

Who we work with

Built for institutions that cannot afford gaps in their due diligence

Development Finance Institutions Banks & Microfinance NGOs & Implementers Impact Investors Procurement Teams
“It was great working with Sustainable Africa on a bespoke sustainability assessment for a competition we ran for coffee MSMEs in Kenya. It provided exactly the clarity and insight we needed to evaluate enterprise performance.”
Tally Einav, Head of Office & RepresentativeUNIDO — Kenya, Comoros, Eritrea, Seychelles & South Sudan
“Sustainable Africa has quickly become an important convener in the region, creating spaces where serious conversations about Kenya’s food future can actually move into action.”
Sven Verwiel, CEOForestFoods
Configurable

Configurable for your organisation

Deploy the platform around your frameworks, your document sets, and your brand.

1

Criteria sets aligned to IFC Performance Standards, EUDR, ESRS, or your own policy framework.

2

Document request lists tailored to screening type, sector, or geography.

3

White-labelled instances for programme deployments — your branding, our infrastructure.

Why this matters

Why this matters

The obligations are not going away. ESG and supply-chain due-diligence requirements expand every year, and every new counterparty, project, and proposal carries questions that must be asked, evidenced, and recorded — consistently, and at a pace manual review was never built to sustain.

Spreadsheets and email threads were never built for that. Criteria drift between reviewers, documents go unverified, and the audit trail ends up scattered across inboxes. When a regulator, investor, or auditor asks how a decision was reached, the answer should take seconds — not days of reconstruction.

Frameworks like the IFC Performance Standards, ESRS, and EUDR demand systematic screening but provide no tools to carry it out. That gap is exactly where risk accumulates — and closing it, deliberately and auditably, is what this platform is built to do.

IFC Performance Standards ESRS EUDR