EU/EBRD SMALL MUNICIPALITIES FINANCE FACILITY FRW

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Project ID 25900

Status Complete

Location

Regional

Business Sector

Financial Institutions

Notice Type

State

Sub-projects

Project timeline

Exploratory
Passed Concept Review
Passed Structure Review
Passed Final Review
Board Approved
Signed
Implementing
Completed

Project ID 25900

Status Complete

Location

Regional

Business Sector

Financial Institutions

Notice Type

State

Environmental Category

Approval Date

29 Apr 2003

Disclosure date

04 Oct 2002

As per section 1.4.2 (iii) of the Directive on Access to Information: "For Projects approved by Bank management where the Board of Directors has delegated the approval authority, the PSD shall be disclosed at the start of the relevant no-objection notification period to a member country of the Bank in accordance with Article 13 (iii) of the Agreement Establishing the EBRD."

Project Description

The EBRD proposes to provide long-term lines of credit to local commercial banks in the EU Accession countries for on-lending to municipalities. The Bank would also share the risk of sub-loans with the banks. The European Commission would provide grant support to the project. Initially, financing will be available in Poland, Hungary, and Slovenia and Romania, but later may be offered in other countries including Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Slovak Republic.

The project objectives are to:

Meet the need for long-term funding for municipal infrastructure and energy efficiency investments;
Use local intermediaries to reach smaller municipal borrowers than EBRD can directly;
Share risk with the banks to encourage them to extend the maturities of municipal loans;
Build the institutional capacity of banks in municipal finance, in particular with respect to energy efficiency;
Improve the creditworthiness of small municipal borrowers through programmes to enhance creditworthiness;
Enhance the capacity of municipalities to structure and apply for financing for energy efficiency investments.

Transition Impact

Facilitate access to medium and long-term credit for municipalities which have limited access to such funding;
Strengthen capacity of local banks in municipal and energy efficiency finance;
Demonstrate to the banking sector the viability of long-term lending to municipalities, including small municipalities to encourage them to expand financing of these infrastructure and energy efficiency projects;
Demonstration of the benefits of rational energy usage;
Building expertise (among banks and municipalities, including ESCOs);
Raised energy efficiency awareness both in the public and private sector.

The Client

EBRD is in discussion with commercial bank clients to be confirmed following negotiations.

Municipalities, municipally owned companies and private companies providing municipal services will be the beneficiaries of financing for energy efficiency investments.

For general municipal infrastructure investments, excluding energy efficiency, small municipalities with fewer than 100,000 inhabitants will be the beneficiaries of the sub-loans.

EBRD Finance

EUR 120 million in lines of credit to local banks. Typical loans to banks will range from EUR 10-15 million.

Risk-sharing by EBRD with the banks in an amount equivalent to 35% of principal of sub-loans.

Project Cost

EUR 120 million

Environmental Impact

This facility has the specific aim of assisting smaller municipalities in developing infrastructure that meets EU standards for environment, health and safety. Environmental due diligence will be conducted on each sub-loan to be financed under this facility. Municipalities will be required to meet national and EBRD requirements for public consultation.

Technical Cooperation

Technical Cooperation will be funded by EC Phare to:

Provide creditworthiness enhancement programmes for small municipalities;

Improve local banks’ lending capacity in municipal finance, in particular for energy efficiency investments;

Assist municipalities to identify potential for improvements of energy usage and to prepare energy efficiency projects for financing.

Tendering under the Facility will follow EBRD’s Procurement Policies and Rules for public or private sector operations as appropriate. It is anticipated that the majority of contracts will be small civil works contracts below EUR 5 million, which would follow local tendering procedures in accordance with the Bank’s Rules.

Company Contact

tba

Transition impact

ETI Score:60

PSD last updated

21 Jan 2019

Business opportunities

For business opportunities or procurement, contact the client company.

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Email: procurement@ebrd.com

General enquiries

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Public Information Policy (PIP)

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Text of the PIP

Environmental and Social Documentation is not available for this project.

Selected procurement notices related to this project may be shown below. Further procurement opportunities related to this and other projects, if available, maybe be viewed in the EBRD Procurement Portal.

The EBRD's Environmental and Social Policy (ESP), Access to Information policy (AIP) and Project Accountability Policy (PAP) enable sound and sustainable development in its projects. The Independent Project Accountability Mechanism (IPAM) deals with complaints about environmental, social and disclosure matters related to the Bank’s investments.

No complaints about this project have been made so far.

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