This CEI Trust Fund supported activity will assist the EBRD Western Balkans Sustainable Energy Direct Financing Facility – WeBSEDFF. With a EUR 50 million endowment, this facility is an investment instrument established by the EBRD to provide debt financing for renewable energy and industrial energy efficiency projects to small and medium-sized enterprises in the Western Balkans. This TC assignment will help the Bank to further mainstream energy efficiency and climate change-related activities and to increase their impact in the Western Balkans (in terms of volume of financing, number of operations, coverage of sectors,energy savings and emissions reductions, innovative financing instruments, etc). To achieve this, the EBRD has decided to create a position of Associate / Principal Banker who will work in the EBRD Resident Office in Podgorica or Sarajevo (location to be decided) as part of the Country Team. The CEI Trust Fund contribution will provide the funding necessary to staff this position with an expert in the fields of sustainable energy investments and climate change.