{"id":7241,"date":"2020-06-03T06:46:04","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T05:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consecon.gov.md\/en\/?p=7241"},"modified":"2022-09-18T21:33:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T18:33:24","slug":"ebrd-investment-councils-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consecon.d.ourbox.org\/en\/2020\/06\/03\/ebrd-investment-councils-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"EBRD Investment Councils Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3 June 2020 &#8211; The EBRD Investment Councils Conference took place between 2 and 3 June 2020. The conference focused on the Investment Councils\u2019 role in supporting the EBRD\u2019s Countries of Operation in the economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The conference was opened by EBRD\u2019s First Vice President, Mr Jurgen Rigterink, who reconfirmed the support to the countries through EBRD\u2019s Solidarity Package, aiming to combat the economic impact of Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Two panels took place during the conference. Panel 1: Key COVID-19 policy responses supported by the Investment Councils;&nbsp; Panel 2: The way forward \u2013 long-term policy responses to re-boost economic activity and build a resilient private sector.<\/p>\n<p>The representatives of the Investment Councils mentioned that the unfolding economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is presenting a scale of challenges unprecedented in recent years. During the conference, the experience of the councils in supporting Governments in overcoming pandemic challenges was reviewed.<\/p>\n<p>Milica Delevic, Director, Governance and Political Affairs, EBRD mentioned that ICs are playing a central part of EBRD policy response to the crisis by continuing to facilitate public private sector dialogue in order to ensure that policy responses are designed in a way to effectively meet the specific challenges that businesses are now faced with. Through the IC platform, the EBRD is supporting governments across the EBRD region to design policies that help restore confidence, build resilience and inject new vigour into economies.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the EBRD supports 12 Investment Councils across Eastern Europe and Caucasus, Western Balkans, Central Asia and Southern and Eastern Mediterranean. They operate in Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kosovo, the Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Montenegro, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ui--blog-content\">\n<div class=\"ui--blog-content\">\n<div>\n<p><em>The Secretariat of the Economic Council to the Prime Minister is supported by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, funded by the UK Government\u2019s Good Governance Fund, and the International Finance Corporation\u2019s Investment Climate Reform Project funded by the Government of Sweden\u2019s International Development Agency.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4385 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/consecon.gov.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/logooooo-300x47.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/consecon.gov.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/logooooo-300x47.jpg 300w, https:\/\/consecon.gov.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/logooooo-768x121.jpg 768w, https:\/\/consecon.gov.md\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/logooooo-1024x161.jpg 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"47\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ui--blog-metas clearfix\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 June 2020 &#8211; The EBRD Investment Councils Conference took place between 2 and 3 June 2020. The conference focused on the Investment Councils\u2019 role in supporting the EBRD\u2019s Countries of Operation in the economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic. The conference was opened by EBRD\u2019s First Vice President, Mr Jurgen Rigterink, who reconfirmed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":""},"categories":[113,115,66],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consecon.d.ourbox.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consecon.d.ourbox.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consecon.d.ourbox.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consecon.d.ourbox.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consecon.d.ourbox.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/consecon.d.ourbox.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23901,"href":"https:\/\/consecon.d.ourbox.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions\/23901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consecon.d.ourbox.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consecon.d.ourbox.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consecon.d.ourbox.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consecon.d.ourbox.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}