EaSI Financial Instruments

The European Commission’s Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) aims at contributing to the implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy by supporting the EU's objective of high level employment, guaranteeing adequate social protection, fighting against social exclusion and poverty and improving working conditions.

Under EaSI, EIF has been entrusted by the European Commission to manage the following financial instruments:

• EaSI Guarantee Instrument
  to increase access to finance for social enterprises, micro-enterprises and  vulnerable groups

• EaSI Capacity Building Investments Window
  to build up the institutional capacity of micro-credit and social finance providers
  
  
• EaSI Funded Instrument
  to support senior and subordinated loans to financial intermediaries