CEE Bankwatch Network comments on the draft of the EBRD Infrastructure Sector Strategy
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Policy comments | 14 August 2024
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is currently preparing a new Sustainable Infrastructure Strategy for the period 2025 to 2029, which will merge the EBRD’s Municipal and Environmental Infrastructure (MEI) Sector Strategy and Transport Sector Strategy into one updated document. In February 2024, we submitted comments and recommendations drawn from Bankwatch’s on-the-ground experience with EBRD investments in Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia and Uzbekistan.
The EBRD’s draft strategy, published in the summer of 2024, shows improvements particularly in terms of good governance, inclusion, safety, affordability, accessibility of municipal and transport infrastructure and services. In our new comments, we argue that more needs to be done to decarbonise and promote circular economy principles and sustainable waste management.
Theme: Sustainable infrastructure | Cities
Tags: Development banks | EBRD | cities for people | urban transport | waste management
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