Financing Social Projects in CEB Target Countries: Achievements and Challenges

Explore how the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) fosters social convergence in its target countries in this brochure. The CEB focuses its lending on countries in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe. How does the CEB diversify its financing instruments to support social projects? Discover the CEB's approach to target countries, achievements, and challenges since 1990. This brochure also elucidates the geographic and sectoral distribution of CEB lending, with an overall amount of € 17 billion in social projects, alongside cooperation with the EU, UN agencies and other IFIs.

Target countries are: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia and "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia", Turkey.