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European Neighbourhood & Partnership Instrument gets extra boost

The NIF focuses on Energy, Environment and Transport investments and providesalso support to SMEs development and to Social Sector infrastructures (including building of schools). The NIF operates by providing grants to support loans to partner countries from EIB, EBRD and other eligible European, multilateral and national, development finance institutions.

for 2010 an extra budget of 85 million has been released.

6. Expected results:
6.4 Improved social services and infrastructures, notably:
* Better access to health care and improved health services installations in urban and rural areas.
* Better education facilities, increased access to education in urban and rural areas.
* Improved vocational training facilities.

 

Final benefiary Partner countries are: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan.  Other countries may be eligible for NIF funding, under certain conditions, to be decided on a case-by-case basis (e.g. regional interest etc.).

Both multilateral and national European development finance institutions will be direct beneficiaries and important stakeholders of the Facility. They will be the only  ones eligible as lead partners to propose lending operations that could benefit from a NIF support. Multilateral finance institutions such as the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (BERD), the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEDB) or the Nordic Investment Bank (NIB), will be eligible to the NIF. Eligibility of other multilateral finance institutions will be examined on a case by case basis.

National European development finance institutions (such as the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) and similar institutions belonging to other Member States) will be eligible provided that the Member State concerned gives a direct contribution to the Facility.

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