Civil Society and Turkiye Earthquake

In the weeks that followed the earthquakes, the EBRD announced a comprehensive two-year response package of €1.5 billion. The package includes credit lines to individuals and companies affected by the earthquakes, as well as infrastructure investments and support for small and medium-sized enterprises and private sector partnerships.

The Bank also  aims to develop technical cooperation projects with municipalities, local community-based organisations, and service providers for an inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable reconstruction phase.

These projects will cover three main areas:

1. Tackling the social and economic impacts of the crisis, and rebuilding the cities to become more inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable.
2. Creating open, transparent, and competitive public procurement processes.
3. Increasing community participation in post-disaster recovery and reconstruction.

Currently we have two projects supporting CSOs working on the affected regions. One of the projects is supporting the digital transformation of CSOs working in the earthquake region, and the other project is supporting better integration of  refugee and local women into the economy in the affected regions.