The Strategic Framework in action: Projects approved in 2025

The CEB’s Strategic Framework 2023-2027 guides the Bank’s operations and enables it to deliver on the social mandate entrusted to it by its member countries. In 2025, the Bank undertook a mid-term review of the progress achieved since 2023 and reported to its Administrative Council in June and the Governing Board in December. The findings were clear: the capital increase completed in December 2024 has enabled solid implementation results, including remaining on track for all major indicators and meeting the average annual volume for loan approvals of €4.3 billion. From 2023 to 2025, the CEB approved a total of €13.1 billion in loans for 146 projects in 34 countries.

In 2025, the Bank’s loan approvals totalled €4.5 billion across 54 new loan projects in 26 countries. These loans were spread across the three lines of action for the CEB’s operations, namely: 1) investing in people and enhancing human capital; 2) promoting inclusive and resilient living environments; and 3) supporting jobs, and economic and financial inclusion.1 Gender, climate change and digitalisation are cross-cutting considerations that span across all three lines of action.