Read more about how the EBRD’s work is improving the daily lives of millions of people in our regions. Moreover, donors finance seven multilateral funds, managed by the EBRD, to increase nuclear safety in the economies where we invest. Donor funds play a vital role in ensuring the success of these activities and act as a catalyst or enabler for our investment. The EBRD supports the transition process by combining investment with close policy dialogue with local and central governments, regulators, financial institutions, and representatives of civil society, as well as by providing technical assistance and advisory services using funds donated by governments and institutions. Our principal financing instruments are loans, equity investments and guarantees. The Bank invests in well-structured, financially robust projects, both directly and through financial intermediaries such as local banks and investment funds. We also finance municipal entities and publicly owned companies, often in support of essential infrastructure and services for people. We work with private clients of all sizes, including small businesses, which constitute the backbone of many economies in the EBRD regions.

Working from its London headquarters and network of 37 Resident Offices, the Bank invests in commercial projects that deliver a market-based financial return while having a measurable economic, social or environmental impact. We operate in places on the path to becoming stronger and more sustainable, democratic, open-market economies. Our investment decisions are guided by six ‘ transition qualities’, which focus on making economies competitive, well governed, green, inclusive, resilient and integrated. We finance projects that strengthen the private sector in economies undergoing transition to a well-functioning market system. Across three continents – from central Europe to the Western Balkans, the southern and eastern Mediterranean and Central Asia – the EBRD invests in changing people’s lives.

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