The European Commission (EC) issued a new call for proposals from banks and international financial institutions under the €9.3 billion Ukraine Investment Framework, this time focused on supporting small businesses.
This call "encourages partners to take on more risk and provide grants to businesses in war-affected areas, as well as to war veterans, displaced persons, and refugees returning to Ukraine," the commission said.
The International Finance Corporation plans to launch a €50 million donor-funded program as a pilot for its proposed Viability Gap Facility meant to make certain Ukrainian infrastructure public-private partnerships more commercially viable, a senior IFC official said. The pilot is expected to cover two or three projects, with
Ukraine needs stronger capacity to prepare and implement projects to accelerate the deployment of reconstruction financing, said a senior European Investment Bank official. “Public sector capabilities still need to grow,” Matteo Rivellini, head of the EIB’s Ukraine Investment Team, told Ukraine Rebuild Newswire. “We have, let's say,
The International Finance Corporation plans to launch a €50 million donor-funded program as a pilot for its proposed Viability Gap Facility meant to make certain Ukrainian infrastructure public-private partnerships more commercially viable, a senior IFC official said. The pilot is expected to cover two or three projects, with
Ukrainian companies are changing the skills they require for existing jobs as they adapt to worker shortages and wartime disruption, with digital capabilities becoming increasingly important, according to a new World Bank study. After the full-scale invasion, digital skills accounted for 13.09% of the skills employers sought in
