The EBRD is the largest single investor in central and eastern Europe and the CIS. It opperates in 29 countries and within 10 industry sectors.
The EBRD is the single biggest investor in the agribusiness sector in Russia, South Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Central Europe. The EBRD agribusiness team has a track record of over 300 projects worth around €4.5 billion with both multinationals and local companies. The team’s specialists have strong market knowledge in the region, and offer flexible and innovative products.
Energy Efficiency & Climate Change
The Energy efficiency and climate change team assists in the development of investment mechanisms such as ESCOs and energy efficiency credit lines. They also identify and implement industrial energy efficiency opportunities with other Bank clients.
Building financial institutions helps develop sustainable, healthy and competitive financial sectors. The EBRD seeks to achieve these goals mainly through project focused work with financial institutions using a variety of creative and diverse financial instruments.
Micro, Small & Medium Business
The EBRD provides strong support for small, medium and micro sized enterprises. The EBRD’s lending programmes provide individual entrepreneurs and firms with access to otherwise scarce finance. It also provides complementary schemes that aim to help individual enterprises adapt to the demands of a market economy.
Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure
The EBRD is committed to improving municipal and environmental services in its countries of operations, in line with its mandate to promote environmentally sound projects. The MEI sector covers direct revenueearning services, such as water supply, waste-water collection and treatment, solid waste management, district heating, natural gas distribution and urban public transport.
Natural resources is one of the most important business sectors for many transition economies. The EBRD has provided financing for a wide variety of projects in this crucial sector, contributing to an increase in oil and gas activity and the development of a competitive gold mining industry.
Power and energy projects comprise a significant portion of the EBRD’s overall portfolio. Within the EBRD’s countries of operations, power and energy infrastructure is often obsolete or old and in need of refurbishment. This challenge has made the EBRD the most active bank in the power sector in central and Eastern Europe and the CIS.
The EBRD plays an important role in attracting foreign investment to the property markets of its countries of operations. The EBRD has financed over 30 projects in all major property sub-sectors, such as offices, shopping centres, warehousing, residential developments and hotels.
Telecoms, Informatics and Media
As the region undertakes major development programmes to respond to new market pressures in the sector, the telecoms team supports projects encompassing information technology, media, and traditional fixed and mobile telecoms. Although there has been significant progress in the last decade, there is still an acute shortage of facilities in many countries.
The EBRD fosters transition of the transport sector by financing economically viable infrastructure and transport projects. The EBRD’s policy aims to build efficient, reliable and secure transport systems in six lines of transport business: aviation, ports, railways, road transport, shipping, and urban transport.