Civil Society and War on Ukraine

Civil society organisations (CSOs) are key partners of the EBRD across the economies where we invest, playing a valuable role in the development of our policies and strategies and in the implementation of our projects. They also promote public dialogue and hold governments and policy makers publicly accountable. 

For the EBRD’s purposes, civil society includes non-governmental organisations (NGOs), policy and research think tanks, social movements, labour unions, community-based organisations, women’s groups, business development organisations and other socio-economic and labour-market actors, including individual activists. Our ongoing dialogue with civil society focuses on human rights and democracy,  environmental and social issues, economic inclusion and gender, transparency, good governance and business development issues related to EBRD’s work and our countries of operations.