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Germany: EBRD shareholder profile

view of the Alexanderplatz square in Berlin

Germany is a founding member of the EBRD and an important contributor to the Bank's work. Germany is a committed donor to the EBRD.

9.14%

capital share (February 2025)

€233mn

donor funds supporting EBRD operations

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 2022, entities from Germany won 527 procurement and consultancy contracts worth €404.6 million.

The German International Climate Initiative (IKI) has recently approved EBRD two projects: Accelerating NDC and promoting sustainable bioenergy, agri and land-use practices in Ukraine and Regional mechanisms for the low-carbon, climate-resilient transformation of the energy-water-land Nexus in Central Asia.

Success story: promoting greener and more efficient food systems with funding from Germany’s International Climate Initiative.

Contact the EBRD Office of the Board Director for Germany

Director: Michael Offer

Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7338 6461

Email:

GermanyOffice@ebrd.com