Dr San Bilal & Sebastian Große-Puppendahl, ECDPM ACP Working Group EIB, Brussels, 12 April 2016

1. The EIB’s innovative role
in the ACP under Cotonou
Dr San Bilal & Sebastian Große-Puppendahl
ACP Working Group
EIB, Brussels, 12 April 2016
Options beyond 2020

2. Outline
1. EIB framework
2. Key elements of Cotonou for EIB
3. Consideration on EIB operations in practice
4. EIB in ACP post 2020

3. • Outside EU: ELM & ACP/Cotonou = 10%
1. EIB operations: €80.3 bn in 2014
• Inside EU: including Juncker Plan (EFSI) = 90%
ACP:
€ 1bn in 2014
(€1.2 bn with SA)

4. 2. Key elements of Cotonou for EIB
• Stability and continuity: 20-year, single agreement for
large group of countries, yet flexible (e.g. IFE)
• Partnership institutions and IF Committee
• Investment Facility (IF) : revolving fund, focused on
private sector
& Impact Financing Envelope (IFE):
higher development impact, accepting higher risks
• Combined with subsidies: Technical Assistance & interest
rate subsidies
• Local currency lending: exchange risk covered by IF
• EU Member State Guarantee: guarantee for all ACP without
bilateral framework agreements, unlike ELM

5. 3. EIB in practice:
challenges and dilemmas
• High-quality management, high standards
= general praise
 EU standards for ACP/DCs? (techn.; risk.; etc.)
• Technical assistance: important but limited
• EIB’s presence on the ground: : important but limited
• Cooperation with other actors: good with DFIs, insufficient
with donors (e.g. TA); higher demand from RDBs
• Country coverage: market & project oriented; not enough
in fragile and poorer countries => IFE
• EIB aligned to EU policies: but tension with some at EC on
development; how aligned to ACP strategies?
• EIB inside & outside EU: synergy and tensions
• EIB financial return and development impact: synergy and
tensions ; risk dimension  Catch 22!
• Transparency: do more

6. 4. EIB options post-2020
• Mandate: ACP focused or ELM or hybrid?
• Depends on future of overarching ACP-EU relations
• Build on acquis
• Why not extend what works well beyond ACP?
• Role of EU Member States?
• Voice and role of ACP (partners or recipient)?
• Single agreement / framework, with continuity overtime
• Identify clear priorities
• Future of IF/IFE:
• IF framework = fits well 2030 Agenda and SDGs (and current
challenges: migration, climate change,…)
• keep endowment
• Increase endowment with aid money
• Increase capital with EIB own resources
• Open capital to other financiers
• Merge IFE in IF: risk and development impact continuum
• Open to non-ACP
• Increase capacity of EIB (e.g. staff & field presence) and strategic
synergy (with other financial institutions and donors, including
within EU, with EC!!!)

7. Thank you
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Sebastian Große-Puppendahl
Policy Officer, ECDPM
sgp@ecdpm.org
Dr San Bilal
Senior Executive
Head of the Economic Transformation and Trade Programme
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