Germany: EBRD shareholder profile

Since 1992, Germany has contributed around €233 million in donor funding for various types of activities, including a €50 million unfunded guarantee to enable, together with other contributors, EBRD loans to Naftogaz in 2022. It participates in the Ukraine Stabilisation and Sustainable Growth Multi-Donor Account, the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Multi-Donor Account, the Eastern Europe Energy Efficiency and Environment Partnership (E5P) Fund, the Northern Dimension Environmental Partnership Fund, the Sustainable Infrastructure Fund (SIF), the European Western Balkans Joint Fund, the Blue Mediterranean Partnership (BMP) and EBRD Crisis Response Special Fund. The EBRD is also benefitting from financial resources provided through the International Climate Initiative (IKI).

Germany is one of the strongest sources of foreign direct investment in the EBRD’s countries of operations. 

German banks are also involved in the Trade Facilitation Programme, through which the EBRD guarantees the payment of trade finance instruments issued by banks in the countries where we invest to foreign confirming banks. Since inception, the TFP has supported 3,104 export and import transactions for German companies for a total € 2,488.64 million, for transactions which were initiated by banks in the EBRD countries of operation and confirmed by banks in both Germany and abroad. Thirty-three German banks and branches of banks have joined the programme as Confirming Banks (all figures as of December 2022).

From 2018 to 2023, entities from Germany won 635 procurement and consultancy contracts worth €412.7 million.

The collaboration between the International Climate Initiative (IKI) and the EBRD represents effective partnership in advancing climate action and sustainable development. With funding from Germany, through its Federal Ministries for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV) and for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), IKI and EBRD have launched impactful projects focused on climate resilience, low-carbon transitions, and sustainable land and energy use. To date, a total of EUR 68.54 million has been committed to four initiatives across Eastern Europe, Central Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. These projects utilise a diverse mix of instruments, including technical cooperation (TC), investment grants, performance-based incentives, risk-sharing mechanisms, and syndicated finance solutions, tailored to regional and sectoral needs. BMUV has also contributed a further EUR 10m to the Central Asia Nature Partnership and Eur 8m to the HIPCA Nature programme.