Municipalities in Eastern Europe

Since our founding, Nefco has generated positive environmental impacts in Eastern Europe through green investing. We have extensive experience in working directly with municipalities, financing projects, building capacity and monitoring results.

Being an international financial institution, our mandate includes dealing with the risk of lending to medium-sized and small municipalities. We are currently financing projects in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine with both loans and grant funding. These range from energy-saving projects to green recovery actions in Ukraine. We also provide technical assistance for feasibility studies and project implementation support in connection with the projects we finance.

Green recovery for Ukraine

Funding for building back greener and better in Ukraine. Recovery projects already ongoing. Find out what and how.

Green recovery in Ukraine

Energy efficiency in Moldova

Festelita village in Moldova

Creating opportunities for energy-efficiency modernisations, renewable energy, and environmentally beneficial projects. Find out more about our available financing in Moldova.

Green projects in Moldova

Energy efficiency in Georgia

Supporting the green energy transition and improving learning environments. Discover how we’re accelerating the green transition in Georgia.

Green loans in Georgia

Other activities in Ukraine

We have extensive experience in supporting Ukraine’s green transition. Nefco has financed renewable energy and energy efficiency projects, and modernisations of district heating and municipal water and wastewater treatment facilities since 2010.

Find out more about our work in Ukraine

Activities in Arctic and Barents Regions

For the past 30 years, until Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Nefco supported actions and financing for environmental and climate-related work in the Arctic and Barents Regions. This included being the fund manager of the Barents Hot Spots Facility and the Arctic Council Project Support Instrument.

Our financed projects in the Arctic and Barents Regions

Our Eastern Europe portfolio at end 2022

85

active projects

€128m

funds committed

44.3%

of total active portfolio

1m+

local citizens benefitting


A new life for displaced Ukrainians in Kivertsi

Anna with her daughter and son in the new apartment in Trostyanets for Nefco

The reconstruction of a former boarding school dormitory in the community of Kivertsi, in Ukraine changed the lives of Illia, Ivan and Anna. Read more about their new lives thanks to an EU and Nefco housing project.

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Energy-efficiency improvements in Chernivtsi

Photo: Energy-efficiency modernised school in the city of Chernivtsi – Nefco

The city of Chernivtsi has renovated over 30 public buildings with support from Nefco, E5P and Sweden. The improvements resulted in over 40,000 benefitted citizens and internally displaced persons relocated to Chernivtsi during the war.

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Ulf Bojö Vice President, Green Transition Eastern Europe
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