European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) works across three continents to support the transition to successful market economies. Its focus is on delivering prosperity by enabling a well-run and sustainable private sector. The EBRD does this with our unique business model, combining financing, advice and policy reform.A clearly defined set of standards governs all EBRD work as EBRD strives to develop a healthy investment climate and promote environmentally and socially sound and sustainable development. EBRD values include Transition, Gender Equality, Integrity and compliance, Environmental and Social Sustainability, and Multiparty Democracy and Pluralism.
In the Skills Alliance for Ukraine, the EBRD is represented with one project:
• The “EBRD Human Capital Response for Ukraine” provides targeted support to EBRD client companies and policy partners promoting human capital recovery and resilience in Ukraine. The Programme responds to the very significant human capital challenges in Ukraine, encompassing a robust and coordinated agenda for EBRD’s action.
• The Programme addresses EBRD investee companies’ most pressing and immediate human capital needs imposed by the ongoing Russian aggression. At the policy level, the Programme also helps to restore and improve labour market institutions, regulations and incentives in line with employers’ needs and EU accession requirements.
• The Programme addresses three fundamental objectives in particular: Filling urgent workforce gaps: Connecting workers with jobs through activation measures, support systems and labour market initiatives aligned with employers’ recruitment and staff reintegration needs – particularly among internally displaced workers and returnees, veterans and those with reduced work capacity, women and others severely affected by the war; Establishing critical skills to sustain operations in challenging times: Fostering a more qualified and diverse talent pool through the launch of new training programmes and competency standards, aligning learning outcomes with employers’ demand; and Enhancing operational processes and working practices towards changing demands: Upgrading employers’ human capital management policies and processes aligned with best practices alongside digital technology upgrades, labour productivity enhancements and job quality improvements aligned with operational recovery needs and expansion plans.
As of May 2025, 2,500 people have been trained country-wide. This includes men and women, and IDPs, veterans, and persons with disabilities.