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Asset Management for water and sanitation sector in South-East Europe

Status: Completed Start date: 01.12.2013 End date: 30.06.2016 Budget 500.000,00€

The municipalities and public utilities lack effective methods for Asset Management for their water supply and sanitation systems in order to offer efficient services and to plan necessary investments. The sub-project is aimed at improving the Asset Management and to contribute to a more efficient and ...


BIRN (Balkan Investigative Reporting Network) - A Paper Trail to Better Governance

Status: Completed Start date: 01.10.2013 End date: 30.06.2016 Budget 500.000,00€

The promotion of the rule of law, accountability and transparency is key for the countries in South-Eastern Europe and the Danube Region in their ambitions towards EU integration. A professional, free and independent media surely contributes to this aim. Therefore, the renowned Balkan Investigative ...


Bordaipol II

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.2016 End date: 30.06.2018 Budget 367.225,00€

Support to the sustainable development of cooperation among border police in Southeast Europe


Boys and Men as Allies in Violence Prevention and Gender Transformation in the Western Balkans

Status: Completed Start date: 01.12.2013 End date: 30.11.2016 Budget 850.000,00€

Das Projekt baut auf mehrjähriger Erfahrung von CARE mit der Young Men Initiative (YMI) in der Region auf, interpersonelle und geschlechtsspezifische Gewalt zu bekämpfen und Geschlechtergleichstellung voranzutreiben. Das Projekt wird in Kooperation mit 4 lokalen Partnerorganisationen in Albanien, Bosnien ...


Breaking the cycle of exclusion for Roma children through ECD (early childhood development) and education

Status: Completed Start date: 10.10.2013 End date: 31.12.2016 Budget 1.965.000,00€

Roma children in South Eastern Europe experience significant gaps in the realization of their rights, compared to other groups of children. They are often born into impoverished households, and are at a severe disadvantage from the beginning. The first years are decisive about their future. The project ...


Building integrity - kapasitetsbygging i forsvarssektoren

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.1970 End date: 01.01.1970 Budget 662.126,00€


Business Friendly Certification in South East Europe – Growing towards Sustainability

Status: Completed Start date: 01.12.2013 End date: 31.05.2015 Budget 500.000,00€

Certification of Business Friendly Municipalities (BFC) is a process which promotes standards of efficient and transparent local administration and enables evaluation of the quality of the services municipalities offer to businesses. The project aimed at building up the capacity of the certification ...


Capacity and Capability Development

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.2014 End date: 31.12.2016 Budget 241.812,00€

Capacity and Capability Development


Capacity Building in Ländern des Westbalkans und der Republik Moldau

Status: Completed Start date: 01.12.2014 End date: 30.11.2017 Budget 900.000,00€

Ziel des Projektes ist die Intensivierung der Vernetzung im Donauraum auf Städteverbands- und kommunaler Ebene sowie die Unterstützung der Verwaltungskapazitäten auf lokaler, regionaler und nationaler Ebene in den Ländern des Westbalkans und der Republik Moldau. Dabei werden Synergien mit der EU-Strategie ...


CEI Know-how Exchange Programme – KEP AUSTRIA 2014-2016

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.2014 End date: 31.12.2016 Budget 400.000,00€

Die Zentraleuropäische Initiative (ZEI) ist eine Internationale Organisation bestehend aus 18 Mitgliedsstaaten (10 EU-Mitgliedsstaaten und 8 Nicht-EU-Mitglieder). Die ZEI wurde 1989 als Forum zur Kooperation der ZEI-Mitgliedsstaaten untereinander, insbesondere zur Förderung der sog. Transitionsländer, ...


Civil Society Facility Action for Albania 2014-2015

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 4.340.000,00€

The main objectives of this Action are to strengthen the cross-sector cooperation between the Government and civil society and to develop the Civil Society Organisation’s (CSOs) capacities. A specific Technical Assistance will be provided to the Albanian Government to set up a structured mechanism ...


Civil Society Facility Action for Albania 2016 - 2017

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 4.000.000,00€

The main objectives of this Action are to strengthen the cross-sector cooperation between the Government and civil society and to develop the Civil Society Organisation’s (CSOs) capacities. Support will be provided to CSOs to take part to the policy dialogue and play their role of lobbying, advocacy ...


Civil Society Facility Action for Albania 2016 - 2017

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 4.000.000,00€

The main objectives of this Action are to strengthen the cross-sector cooperation between the Government and civil society and to develop the Civil Society Organisation’s (CSOs) capacities. Support will be provided to CSOs to take part to the policy dialogue and play their role of lobbying, advocacy ...


Civil Society Facility Action for Bosnia and Herzegovina 2014-2015

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 4.970.000,00€

The IPA II assistance within Civil Society Facility 2014-2015 will encourage sector based networking and cooperation among full name first (CSOs) in areas of journalism and human rights concerning the right to a free access to information, freedom of expression, protection against violence and pressure; ...


Civil Society Facility action for Kosovo 2016- 2017

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 3.360.000,00€

The Action will promote an enabling environment for civic engagement by strengthening capacities of civil society and media for their active participation in Kosovo's reforms. Through broadening and deepening the basis for civic engagement, these reforms can be better understood and supported by society ...


Civil Society Facility action for Kosovo 2016- 2017

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 3.360.000,00€

The Action will promote an enabling environment for civic engagement by strengthening capacities of civil society and media for their active participation in Kosovo's reforms. Through broadening and deepening the basis for civic engagement, these reforms can be better understood and supported by society ...


Civil Society Facility Action for Kosovo* 2014-2015

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 5.200.000,00€

This action aims at enabling and stimulating a participatory democracy in Kosovo by creating an environment which promotes partnership and dialogue between civil society and public institutions, and by building the capacity of full name first (CSOs) to be effective and accountable independent actors. ...


Civil Society Facility and Media action for Bosnia and Herzegovina 2016-2017

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 0,00€

IPA II assistance within Civil Society Facility 2016-2017 will encourage sector based networking and cooperation among CSOs in areas of social inclusion, education, social entrepreneurship, environment and climate change, and youth. Gender and inclusion of minorities will be a cross cutting issue. The ...


Civil Society Facility and Media action for Bosnia and Herzegovina 2016-2017

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 0,00€

IPA II assistance within Civil Society Facility 2016-2017 will encourage sector based networking and cooperation among CSOs in areas of social inclusion, education, social entrepreneurship, environment and climate change, and youth. Gender and inclusion of minorities will be a cross cutting issue. The ...


Civil Society Facility and Media Action for Montenegro 2014-2015

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 3.750.000,00€

The underlying Action will help to improve the level of participation of civil society organisations in the policy-making processes in Montenegro. This will be supported through promoting an environment that is conducive to civil society activities and building their capacity to be effective and accountable ...


Civil Society Facility and Media Action for Serbia 2014-2015

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 7.100.000,00€

The programme aims at supporting civil society and media sector in Serbia in line with EU guidelines to support civil society and media freedom in enlargement countries. Support to civil society will focus on achieving an environment that is conducive to civil society activities, including the development ...


Civil Society Facility and Media Freedom Action for the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 11.000.000,00€

Civil Society and Media are an important actor in society that can provide support to any reform process and act as its engine. It contributes to building integrity of the public administration, enforces fundamental rights, support vulnerable groups, and is an oversight of the national polices. The programme ...


Civil Society Facility and Media Programme for Serbia

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 3.000.000,00€

The programme aims at supporting civil society and media sector in Serbia in line with the "Guidelines for EU support to civil society in enlargement countries, 2014-2020" and the "Guidelines for EU support to media freedom and media integrity in enlargement countries, 2014-2020". Support to civil society ...


Civil Society Facility and Media Programme for Serbia

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 3.000.000,00€

The programme aims at supporting civil society and media sector in Serbia in line with the "Guidelines for EU support to civil society in enlargement countries, 2014-2020" and the "Guidelines for EU support to media freedom and media integrity in enlargement countries, 2014-2020". Support to civil society ...


Civil Society Facility and Media, Action for Montenegro 2016-2017

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 2.500.000,00€

This programme will improve the level and quality of participation of civil society organisations throughout the Montenegrin policy-making processes. This will be achieved through the promotion of an enabling environment that is conducive to civil society activities and building their capacity to be ...


Civil Society Facility and Media, Action for Montenegro 2016-2017

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 1.500.000,00€

This programme will improve the level and quality of participation of civil society organisations throughout the Montenegrin policy-making processes. This will be achieved through the promotion of an enabling environment that is conducive to civil society activities and building their capacity to be ...


Civil Society Facility Turkey ("Sivil Düşün III" including support to the Resource Centre)

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 10.000.000,00€

The Civil Society Facility Turkey ("Sivil Düşün III" including support to the Resource Centre) aims to improve the environment for active citizenship and to strengthen the capacity of organised active citizens. The action will contribute to an improvement in the enjoyment of freedoms of expression, ...


Civil Society Facility Turkey (“Sivil Düşün II")

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 5.000.000,00€

The Civil Society Facility Turkey ("Sivil Düşün II") aims to improve the environment for active citizenship and to strengthen the capacity of organised active citizens. The action will contribute to an improvement in the enjoyment of Freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly and association; to an ...


Climate Forum East II (CFE II) - Klimaforum OST II

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.2015 End date: 31.12.2017 Budget 64.000,00€

Climate Forum East II (CFE II) - Klimaforum OST II


Co-financing of Connectivity Projects in the Western Balkans Action ID

Status: Underway Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2024 Budget 144.900.000,00€

The action is to support the construction of energy and transport infrastructure, namely Projects of the Energy Community Interest (PECIs) and the Trans-European Transport Core Network (TEN-T core network) in the Western Balkans region. The European Commission will, via the Western Balkans Investment Framework ...


Co-financing of Connectivity Projects in the Western Balkans

Status: Underway Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2024 Budget 538.800.000,00€

The action is to support the construction of energy and transport infrastructure, namely Projects of the Energy Community Interest (PECIs) and the Trans-European Transport Core Network (TEN-T core network) in the Western Balkans region. The European Commission will, via the Western Balkans Investment ...


Co-financing of Connectivity Projects in the Western Balkans 2016

Status: Underway Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2025 Budget 145.500.000,00€

The European Commission is, via the Western Balkans Investment Framework (WBIF), co-financing mature energy and transport infrastructure projects together with loans from the international financial institutions, as part of the Connectivity Agenda/Berlin Process. After the initial round in 2015, ...


Contribution to the Roma Education Fund (REF)

Status: Completed Start date: 01.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 598.726,42€

REF's goal is to close the gap in education outcomes between Roma and non-Roma, through the design and implementation of policies and programs that support quality education for Roma, including the desegregation of the school system REF Strategy 2015-2020 is built around four core priorities: (i) Access ...


Cooperation on Cybercrime: targeting crime proceeds on the Internet (CyberProceeds@IPA)

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2019 Budget 5.500.000,00€

The objective of the Action is to strengthen the capacity of authorities in Western Balkans and Turkey to search, seize and confiscate cybercrime proceeds and prevent money laundering on the Internet. This is to be achieved through seven expected results related to public reporting systems, legislation, ...


Cross-Border Institution Building (CBIB+) – Phase II

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 2.000.000,00€

The action will continue to provide technical and expert support to the National Authorities in charge of implementing cross-border cooperation (CBC) programmes at intra-Western Balkan borders with a view to enhance regional coordination and harmonisation of approaches and mechanisms in line with EU ...


Disaster Risk Assessment and Mapping

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2016 End date: 31.12.2019 Budget 3.000.000,00€

To contribute to the capabilities of the Western Balkans and Turkey to develop effective, coherent and EU oriented national systems for disaster loss data collection, risk assessment and mapping, and to ensure their approximation and integration into the Union Civil Protection Mechanism. - To improve ...


Dissemination of an e-building permit system in South-East Europe

Status: Completed Start date: 01.12.2014 End date: 30.06.2016 Budget 500.000,00€

The duration of issuance of construction permits in most of the countries in South-East Europe (SEE) is very long, nontransparent and complicated. Moreover, the procedure is very often burdened with corruption. The sub-project will focus on transferring the capacity developed in Macedonia to set up ...


Ecological status according to EU Water Framework Directive in the WB

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.1970 End date: 01.01.1970 Budget 266.505,00€


Economic Governance

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 8.000.000,00€

This Action in cooperation with the IMF will provide targeted technical assistance for strengthening public finance reforms (including on the revenue side, public expenditures and the overall PFM system) in the context of the Commission’s enhanced dialogue on economic governance. The IMF’s technical ...


Employment and Social Affairs Platform (ESAP)

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2016 End date: 31.12.2019 Budget 3.450.000,00€

The overall objective of the Employment and Social Affairs Platform is to assist the Western Balkans with the employment/labour market and social policy reforms in their pre-accession process. The focus is on improving the policy dialogue related to labour market institutions, labour mobility, working ...


Energy Efficiency in Municipal Associations

Status: Completed Start date: 01.09.2014 End date: 31.03.2016 Budget 450.000,00€

The sub-project supports regional cooperation between municipal associations in developing roadmaps which will serve as a guideline for the municipalities for formulating and implementing the energy plans and for expanding their own capacity. It will also develop instruments enabling better sharing and ...


Enhancing mobility, connectivity and competitiveness in South East Europe – Support to RCC

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 7.500.000,00€

The action will support the RCC Secretariat in the implementation of its Strategy and Work Programme 2017-2019. The objective of the action is to support regional cooperation and help remove obstacles to increased intraregional mobility, enhanced connectivity and improved competitiveness in South ...


ENVSEC: Transforming Environmental and Security Risks into Cooperation in the South Eastern European Region (Phase II); and Climate Change and Security in Dniester River Basin

Status: Completed Start date: 01.12.2012 End date: 31.12.2016 Budget 1.300.000,00€

The objective of this project is the reduction of environment and security risks, and an increased cooperation on environment and security issues both between and within countries. It will cover Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, F.Y.R Macedonia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia in the SEE region and Moldova ...


Establishment of an Early Warning Information Sharing Network along the Migration Route from Greece to Hungary and Croatia

Status: Completed Start date: 19.10.2015 End date: 18.10.2016 Budget 250.001,28€

The overall objective of IOM initiative is to contribute to the ongoing efforts of the Governments of the above mentioned countries in addressing the emergency situation through the establishment of an Information Sharing Network that ensures the provision of key information on the nature and scale of ...


EU/Council of Europe Horizontal facility for Western Balkans and Turkey

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2016 End date: 31.12.2019 Budget 22.220.000,00€

The objective of the Action is to support reform processes in the areas rule of law, democracy and human rights through the Council of Europe utilizing its unique position of offering a highly interconnected system between standard setting, monitoring and technical assistance in these key areas. ...


European Integration Facility

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2016 End date: 31.12.2019 Budget 2.000.000,00€

The objective of the EU Integration Facility is to assist the IPA II beneficiaries in the overall development towards EU accession, by supporting the civil and public administration and helping them to efficiently manage the pre-accession funds and effectively manage the process of EU integration. The ...


European Integration Facility

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 3.000.000,00€

The objective of the European Integration Facility is to assist the IPA II beneficiaries in the overall development towards EU accession, by supporting the civil and public administration and helping them to efficiently manage the pre-accession funds and effectively manage the process of EU integration. The ...


European Integration Facility

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 3.000.000,00€

The objective of the European Integration Facility is to assist the IPA II beneficiaries in the overall development towards EU accession, by supporting the civil and public administration and helping them to efficiently manage the pre-accession funds and effectively manage the process of EU integration. The ...


European Western Balkans Joint Fund

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.1970 End date: 01.01.1970 Budget 2.979.567,00€


FAIR II – Förderung der sozialen Einbeziehung & Rechte von Romafrauen am Westbalkan

Status: Completed Start date: 01.11.2015 End date: 31.10.2018 Budget 1.100.000,00€

Das Ziel des FAIR II Projektes ist eine bessere soziale Inklusion und sozioökonomische Stellung von Roma Frauen und Gemeinschaften in den Zielgemeinden von Bosnien und Herzegowina, Montenegro und Serbien zu erreichen sowie zu einer aktiven politischen Partizipation von Roma-Frauenrechtsorganisationen ...


Frieden aufbauen: Vertrauen - Dialog - Zusammenarbeit

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.2016 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 143.300,00€

Frieden aufbauen: Vertrauen - Dialog - Zusammenarbeit


Green for Growth Fund, Southeast Europe SA, SICAV-SIF

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2023 Budget 20.000.000,00€

The Action supports the Green for Growth Fund, GGF, which was initiated in 2009 to facilitate energy efficiency (EE) in the public and private sector and to advance renewable energy (RE) based on a proven public private partnership model. For this purpose GGF combines a broad range of public, multilateral ...


IFC-PEPSEI Infrastructure Western Balkan

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.1970 End date: 01.01.1970 Budget 485.559,00€


Implementation of SDC’s Culture Percent (Culture %) in the Western Balkans

Status: Completed Start date: 01.09.2014 End date: 31.12.2016 Budget 1.479.705,00€

Artists and cultural practitioners have played an important role in transition and democratisation processes since the end of the Balkans wars in 1999 –also supported by SDC. The creativity of independent cultural actors can today be observed in a wide range of productions. However culture is not top ...


Improving economic governance and competitiveness

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2016 End date: 31.12.2019 Budget 16.840.000,00€

In the context of the EU enhanced approach to economic governance, the Action contributes to stimulate innovation and competitiveness of the private sector through assisting the beneficiaries in designing, implementing and monitoring structural reforms, thus supporting ...


Improving the living conditions and reintegrating migrant children in Albania

Status: Completed Start date: 01.04.2016 End date: 31.03.2019 Budget 640.550,00€

The project aims to sustainably improve the living conditions of 160 families and vulnerable children in the regions of Fier, Korca, Lezha and Shkodra in Albania, to prevent their engagement in unsafe migration and to facilitate their reintegration by improving their access to quality social services, ...


Institutional Support to Network of Associations of Local Authorities in South East Europe (NALAS)

Status: Completed Start date: 01.07.2013 End date: 31.12.2017 Budget 234.507,34€

With an institutional support to the Network of Associations of Local Authorities of South – East Europe (NALAS), SDC supports the decentralization and democratization processes as well as stability in South East Europe (SEE). NALAS strengthens national associations of local governments and fosters ...


JASPERS' assistance to Turkey in the environment sector

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 1.000.000,00€

The Action will provide technical assistance to prepare successful, high quality environment infrastructure projects in Turkey, jointly identified by the European Commission, the EU Delegation in Ankara and the beneficiary Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation. It will contribute to bring these priority ...


Joint Assistance to Support Projects in European Regions - JASPERS

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2016 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 4.000.000,00€

The Action will provide technical assistance to prepare successful, high quality major infrastructure projects identified by the beneficiaries' National Investment Committees. It will contribute to bring these priority investments projects to maturity by offering support to develop, ...


Measuring and assessing organised crime in the Western Balkans: supporting evidence-based policy making

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 2.200.000,00€

The objective of the Action is to measure and assess organised crime in the Western Balkans, and to develop and implement a framework for quantifying and analysing organised crime and mechanisms to monitor it in the beneficiaries. This framework will be based on reliable data and a set of common benchmarking ...


Multi-Country Civil Society Facility and Media Action 2014 -2015

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 33.820.000,00€

This Action aims at strengthening participatory democracies and the EU integration process in the Western Balkans and Turkey by improving the legal, policy and financial environment for civil society and pluralistic media, by building the capacities of CSOs and media organizations as well as enhancing ...


Multi-Country Civil Society Facility and Media Action 2016 -2017

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 23.500.000,00€

This Action aims at strengthening participatory democracies and the EU integration process in the Western Balkans and Turkey by improving the legal, policy and financial environment for civil society and pluralistic media, by building the capacities of CSOs and media organizations as well as enhancing ...


Multi-Country Civil Society Facility and Media Action 2016 -2017

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 23.500.000,00€

This Action aims at strengthening participatory democracies and the EU integration process in the Western Balkans and Turkey by improving the legal, policy and financial environment for civil society and pluralistic media, by building the capacities of CSOs and media organizations as well as enhancing ...


Multi-Country Civil Society Facility and Media Programme 2016-2017

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 2.650.000,00€

The programme aims at supporting civil society in the country, in line with the EU guidelines for support to civil society and media freedom. Firstly, it addresses strengthening of the civil society as actor through grants and support to National Resource Centre. Secondly, it supports work of organisations ...


Multi-Country Civil Society Facility and Media Programme 2016-2017

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 2.650.000,00€

The programme aims at supporting civil society in the country, in line with the EU guidelines for support to civil society and media freedom. Firstly, it addresses strengthening of the civil society as actor through grants and support to National Resource Centre. Secondly, it supports work of organisations ...


Multi-Donor Trust Fund on Jobs, with special focus on Solutions for Youth Employment (S4YE)

Status: Completed Start date: 01.12.2014 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 1.600.000,00€

The World Bank Group established an Umbrella Trust Fund to support the design and implementation of its jobs strategy, aiming to improve jobs and earnings opportunities for workers worldwide, contribute to the eradication of poverty, and boost shared prosperity.


NETUCATE - Einführung transformativer Bildungsansätze mit den Schwerpunkten Demokratie und Partizipation in SOE

Status: Completed Start date: 01.11.2015 End date: 30.10.2018 Budget 550.000,00€

The overall objective of the project is to contribute to sustaining the democratisation process and enhancing conflict sensitivity in the Western Balkans through reforms and implementation of changes in the formal schooling system that will intensify democratic education. The project strives to achieve ...


Open Regional Fund for Sotuh East Europe - Modernisation of Municipal Services "Local Leaders in South East Europe – Lead for Charge"

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.2013 End date: 31.03.2017 Budget 1.500.000,00€

Project objective is to enable LGAs to improve management and leadership competencies of local decision-makers for planning and implementing municipal infrastructure investment projects. The project is aimed at developing a structured training concept and the related training offers for human capacity ...


Open Regional Fund for South East Europe - Biodiversity

Status: Completed Start date: 15.08.2015 End date: 15.08.2018 Budget 3.000.000,00€

“Open Regional Fund Biodiversity (ORF BD) is designed to support conflict-sensitive planning and implementation as well as to ensure that opportunities for the involvement of civil society are identified and supported. ORF BD promotes regional cooperation of biodiversity-related organisations - in ...


Open Regional Fund for South East Europe - Biodiversity "Ecosystem Services Assessment and Valuation (ESAV) in future course of action in SEE"

Status: Completed Start date: 06.06.2016 End date: 31.05.2018 Budget 432.000,00€

The project ‘’Ecosystem Services Assessment and Valuation (ESAV) in Future Course of Action in South-East Europe (SEE)’’ is designed to support cross-sectoral approach enabling recognition, demonstration and capture the value of biodiversity and ecosystem services for development planning in ...


Open Regional Fund for South East Europe - Biodiversity "Regional Network for Biodiversity Information Management and Reporting (BIMR)"

Status: Completed Start date: 16.06.2016 End date: 30.06.2018 Budget 490.000,00€

Objective: Strengthen capacities of partner institutions that are needed to meet the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and EU requirements. The challenges will be addressed by ensuring participation and engagement of all relevant stakeholder groups in the design and implementation of three ...


Open Regional Fund for South East Europe - Biodiversity "Regional Network of Biodiversity Related Civil Society Organisations (BioNET)"

Status: Completed Start date: 16.06.2016 End date: 31.05.2018 Budget 150.000,00€

Establishment of a regional network of biodiversity-related CSOs promotes democratic development and strengthens the cooperation and dialogue between local authorities, national governments, civil society, private sector and international governmental and non-governmental organizations conducive to nature ...


Open Regional Fund for South East Europe - Biodiversity "Transboundary Ecosystem Management (TEM)"

Status: Completed Start date: 15.01.2017 End date: 01.06.2018 Budget 250.000,00€

Component 1: Institutional Framework for Transboundary Management at local and regional level Component 2: Sustainable Tourism for Sharr Mountain TEM area


Open Regional Fund for South East Europe - Foreign Trade Promotion “Addressing Sectoral Trade Barriers”

Status: Completed Start date: 01.10.2014 End date: 31.07.2016 Budget 500.000,00€

The aim of the project was to strengthen CEFTA capacity to dismantle sector-specific trade barriers in selected sectors in dialogue with the private sector. The project used a four-stage approach: Analysis and selection of regional value chains, identification of priority trade barriers in selected ...


Open Regional Fund for South East Europe - Foreign Trade Promotion “Custom(s)made - Application of Trade Preferences and Rules of Origin (RoO)”

Status: Completed Start date: 01.10.2016 End date: 30.05.2017 Budget 100.000,00€

The main goal of the project is to facilitate the access to information and know-how for the private sector in selected countries on using rules of origin potentials for their business development. This is mainly being done by assessing the needs of the private sector, analyzing capacities of the Customs ...


Open Regional Fund for South East Europe - Foreign Trade Promotion “Introduction of the Export Management Course”

Status: Completed Start date: 01.05.2015 End date: 01.05.2016 Budget 95.000,00€

The aim of the Project was to support the introduction of the Export Management Training Course as a part of the regular training curricula of interested local service providers such as Chambers of Commerce and - training centers from Serbia, Macedonia and B&H. Open Regional Fund for Foreign Trade Promotion ...


Open Regional Fund for South East Europe - Foreign Trade Promotion “Seizing the Potential of Diagonal Cumulation for Trade in CEFTA”

Status: Completed Start date: 01.02.2014 End date: 31.05.2015 Budget 200.000,00€

The main goal of the Sub-project within the Open Regional Fund for Foreign Trade Promotion was to strengthen capacities of CEFTA structures to maximaze the potential of diagonal cumulation. Within the Sub-project CEFTA Parties were assisted in conducting a comprehensive analysis of the implementation ...


Open Regional Fund for South East Europe - Legal Reform "Development of Collective Redress for Consumers in SEE"

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.2017 End date: 31.10.2018 Budget 200.000,00€

Starting point is a comparative legal analysis of collective redress in consumer protection in the EU and South East Europe carried out by legal experts from the SEELS Network, CPOs from the region and international legal experts. The SEELS Network will concentrate on the regional implementation of ...


Open Regional Fund for South East Europe - Legal Reform "Gender and Land Rights"

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.2017 End date: 01.06.2017 Budget 200.000,00€

The objective of the subproject is to improve regional exchange on gender sensitive enforcement of property rights in South East Europe. The expected results of the project are as follow: “Registration offices and notaries in the partner countries have improved their internal regulations for gender ...


Open Regional Fund for South East Europe - Legal Reform "Investor-State Dispute Resolution"

Status: Completed Start date: 01.03.2017 End date: 01.09.2018 Budget 100.000,00€

The objective of the project will be to improve regional cooperation in the area of investments dispute resolution. During the implementation of the project some of the expected results are: Legal Practitioners from SEE countries are aware of recent legal discussing in UNCITRAL and are contributing ...


Open Regional Fund for South East Europe - Legal Reform "Strengthening Regional Cooperation of the Western Balkans’ Judicial Training Institutions"

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.2017 End date: 01.10.2018 Budget 200.000,00€

Starting point of the sub-project are agreements between JTIs to jointly work on certain topics, which can improve judicial training in their area of responsibility. The academies have identified the complete European law and the quality of training as the most essential topics. To meet these challenges, ...


Open Regional Fund for South East Europe – Energy Efficiency

Status: Completed Start date: 01.10.2012 End date: 31.08.2017 Budget 7.481.743,00€

The Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – Energy Efficiency (ORF-EE) promotes regional cooperation among stakeholders with the capacity to drive the processes of reform in the energy sector and thereby contributes to the achievement of national energy efficiency targets in their respective countries. ...


Open Regional Fund for South East Europe – Energy Efficiency Project: “Strengthening capacities for implementing the NEEAP cycle”

Status: Completed Start date: 20.08.2015 End date: 28.02.2017 Budget 490.000,00€

EU’s energy saving targets represent a major challenge for many EU countries. This is also true for South-East European (SEE) states which lag behind the EU with reference to energy policy. There is currently an ongoing debate among the contracting parties of the Energy Community Secretariat (ECS) ...


Open Regional Fund for South East Europe – Energy Efficiency Project: “Facilitating Multi-level Governance for Energy Efficiency”

Status: Completed Start date: 01.03.2015 End date: 01.08.2017 Budget 2.175.796,00€

Public administration plays a key role in reaching European energy and climate targets. This concerns both the nation-state level, at which the energy policy of the country is formulated and support programs are initiated, as well as the local level, at which the implementation of concrete energy efficiency ...


Open Regional Fund for South-East Europe – Promotion of EU Integration through Regional Cooperation

Status: Completed Start date: 23.08.2012 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 6.800.000,00€

Context Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia have made EU membership one of their top priorities. While they are each at different stages in the accession process, they face many common challenges when it comes to reforming their economic and political systems and ...


Performing and Responsible Social Sciences Research (PERFORM)

Status: Completed Start date: 01.11.2013 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 4.820.680,00€

Social Sciences in the Western Balkans lack recognition and influence. This project is designed to improve the quality and relevance of social research for political and social reforms in the region. Strengthened research communities, defining their research agenda and delivering quality research, a ...


Preparatory measures for the participation of beneficiaries in EU Agencies

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 4.460.000,00€

The action is supporting EU Agencies by allowing them to carry out preparatory measures with the Beneficiaries and stakeholders in view of their future participation in these EU Agencies upon membership or earlier. The support aims as well at knowledge transfer and capacity building in the area of expertise ...


Preparatory measures for the participation of IPA II beneficiaries in EU Agencies

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 3.000.000,00€

The action is supporting EU Agencies by allowing them to carry out preparatory measures with the IPA II Beneficiaries and stakeholders in view of their future participation in these EU Agencies upon membership or earlier. The support aims as well at knowledge transfer and capacity building in the area ...


Preparatory measures for the participation of IPA II beneficiaries in EU Agencies

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 3.000.000,00€

The action is supporting EU Agencies by allowing them to carry out preparatory measures with the IPA II Beneficiaries and stakeholders in view of their future participation in these EU Agencies upon membership or earlier. The support aims as well at knowledge transfer and capacity building in the area ...


Prevention, preparedness and response to floods in the Western Balkans and Turkey, Lot 2

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 4.000.000,00€

This action is intended to help reducing the negative impact that floods have in the target region and its EU neighbours by facilitating the beneficiaries to better deal with floods' risk management and creating capacities for effectively and efficiently deal with this ...


Promoting Gender Equality in the Western Balkans – a Swiss contribution to the World Bank’s gender equality promotion in the region

Status: Completed Start date: 15.12.2012 End date: 31.12.2016 Budget 186.116,94€

The SDC financial contribution to the regional programme of the World Bank will leverage on-going gender equality efforts by national governments, non-governmental or multilateral partners, thereby contributing to enhance women’s economic situation and their social status. As a response to persistent ...


Promoting Gender Responsive Policies in South East Europe - Phase II

Status: Completed Start date: 01.12.2013 End date: 01.12.2013 Budget 1.100.000,00€

The regional project is continuation of the initiatives already under way and previously supported by UN Women and the Austrian Development Agency in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Republic of Moldova. The results of those initiatives and the institutional ...


Promoting Inclusive Labour Market Solutions in the Western Balkans

Status: Completed Start date: 01.05.2016 End date: 31.12.2017 Budget 1.575.000,00€

The objective of the programme is to increase the ability and confidence of hard-to-employ population groups (including long-term unemployed, women, in particular from ethnic minorities underrepresented at the labour market, people with disabilities, youth/first time job seekers) to access decent employment ...


Public Expenditure Management – Peer Assisted Learning (PEMPAL)

Status: Completed Start date: 01.07.2012 End date: 31.12.2017 Budget 4.668.425,00€

The ECA region comprises a diverse group of countries that have suffered a major economic downturn in the early 1990s, moving from socialism toward market economies. Since then, governments have been undertaking macroeconomic stabilization and fiscal adjustments. As a result of the 2008 global financial ...


RACVIAC Programme Support 2016

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.1970 End date: 01.01.1970 Budget 38.624,00€


Rahmenprogramm Volkshilfe 2014-2016

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.2014 End date: 01.01.2014 Budget 950.000,00€

Rahmenprogramm Volkshilfe 2014-2016


RAI/UNODC - Antikorruptionsmaßnahmen auf institutioneller und zivilgesellschaftlicher Ebene in SOE

Status: Completed Start date: 01.12.2015 End date: 30.11.2018 Budget 1.000.000,00€

The Programme aims to build and strengthen the capacity of governments and civil society organizations (CSOs) from the South East European (SEE) region to prevent and fight corruption. It contributes directly to ADA objectives and priorities of reducing poverty, promoting gender equality, good governance ...


Reduction of Water Losses (Non-Revenue Water) in South-East Europe

Status: Completed Start date: 01.10.2014 End date: 30.06.2016 Budget 500.000,00€

The objective of the sub-project is: Managerial capacities for the reduction of water losses (Non-Revenue Water) in South-East Europe are strengthened. This shall be achieved by a multi-level and multi stakeholder capacity building measures addressing the individual, organizational and institutional ...


Regional benchmarking initiative for the water and sanitation sector in South-East Europe

Status: Completed Start date: 01.08.2014 End date: 30.04.2016 Budget 570.000,00€

This sub-project aims at creating systems and tools for improving the information available on water utility performance of the water and waste water management in SEE.


Regional Child Protection Resource Centre (RRC) for South Eastern Europe

Status: Completed Start date: 01.10.2014 End date: 31.12.2017 Budget 780.000,00€

Regional Child Protection Resource Centre (RRC) for South Eastern Europe


Regional cooperation and networking in the field of agriculture, rural and economic development of cross-border areas

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 500.000,00€

The focus of this action is to foster regional cooperation among institutions and stakeholders in the agriculture and food sector, with a view to enabling a more balanced territorial development of the Western Balkans in the perspective of EU integration. The activities will create opportunities ...


Regional Cooperation Council RCC Sarajevo, support to operational budget

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.1970 End date: 01.01.1970 Budget 51.369,00€


Regional dialogue platform on water and waste water in South-East Europe

Status: Completed Start date: 01.05.2014 End date: 30.04.2016 Budget 500.000,00€

This sub-project is focusing on improving the regional dialogue on water and waste water between the associations of municipalities and associations of public utilities in South-East Europe (SEE) and other actors, which influence the water and waste water services. The proposed dialogue platform is a ...


Regional Energy Efficiency Programme for the Western Balkans (“REEP Plus”)

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 15.000.000,00€

The Action supports the extension of the Regional Energy Efficiency Programme for the Western Balkans – a comprehensive programme managed and administered by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), designed to deliver energy efficiency finance using investment grants and technical assistance ...


Regional Energy Efficiency Programme for the Western Balkans (“REEP Plus”)

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2023 Budget 30.000.000,00€

The Action supports the extension of the Regional Energy Efficiency Programme for the Western Balkans – a comprehensive programme that will be implemented by two lead IFIs (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - EBRD and Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau – KfW), with aim to deliver energy ...


Regional Housing Programme (RHP)

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 11.500.000,00€

Embedded in the context of the Sarajevo Process, the Regional Housing Programme (RHP) aims to make a substantial contribution to the satisfactory resolution of the protracted problem of the remaining refugees and displaced persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia by providing ...


Regional investment policy programme

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 2.500.000,00€

Following the conclusions of the Vienna Summit to increase investments and of the South East Europe Ministerial meeting on Investment, the objective of the project is to contribute to the gradual harmonisation of the investment policies in the Western Balkans with the relevant EU and international standards, ...


Regional Model for a Smart Municipal Services Reporting System for the citizens

Status: Completed Start date: 01.09.2014 End date: 30.11.2015 Budget 85.000,00€

This sub-project is aimed at identifying the conditions for the development and implementation of such a reporting system in the municipalities SEE by ensuring a dialogue between the Local Government Associations (LGAs) and representatives from the consumers to agree upon goals, to define precisely functionalities, ...


Regional Program: Scientific Cooperation between Eastern Europe and Switzerland (SCOPES), Institutional Partnerships and Research

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.2013 End date: 31.12.2016 Budget 747.823,79€

The Swiss National Fund implements the SCOPES project, which has been ongoing since 1990, with partners from Eastern Europe and the CIS. Within the scope of this cooperation, research institutes from partner countries are supported in their tasks. As a further element, research teams from Eastern Europe ...


Regional School of Public Administration

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2016 End date: 31.12.2019 Budget 3.500.000,00€

ReSPA’s principal aim is to improve regional cooperation in the field of public administration, to strengthen administrative capacities as required by the European Integration process and to develop civil services in line with the principles of public administration in the Western Balkans, hence supporting ...


Regional support to protection-sensitive migration management systems

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 8.250.000,00€

The objective of the Action is to further developand operationalize a comprehensive migration management system in the IPA Beneficiaries applying a human rights based approach. Complementing IPA assistance at the national level, the regional programme will focus on identification of migrants, improving ...


Remittances and Payments Program (RPP)

Status: Completed Start date: 01.12.2014 End date: 30.06.2019 Budget 34.532.109,00€

The Remittances and Payments Program (RPP) aims to make the transfer of remittances (i.e. the money that is sent home by migrants) cheaper, safer and more convenient. This will result in an increase of the available resources for migrants and their families and in an increased usage of formal transfer ...


Roma Decade 2020, Phase 1

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 1.600.000,00€

The aim of the Action, “Roma Decade 2020”, Phase 1, is to advance towards the integration of Roma women, men and children in order to improve the lives of Roma people in the IPA II Beneficiaries aspiring to join the EU. This is to be achieved by extending and expanding the work of a regional advisory ...


Secondments Western Balkans 2011

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.1970 End date: 01.01.1970 Budget 566.879,00€


SEEDLING - Einführung der Nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziele der UN in den Schulen Südosteuropas

Status: Completed Start date: 01.11.2015 End date: 31.10.2018 Budget 1.533.333,33€

The project aims to strengthen education, capacity building and awareness raising on the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in SEE countries by incorporating them into national school curricula and by means of regional cooperation and networking among decision makers, educators and teachers. Moldova ...


Solid Waste Data Collection in South-East Europe

Status: Completed Start date: 01.09.2014 End date: 30.06.2016 Budget 500.000,00€

Within the sub-project, the representative sample of municipalities and public utilities from four participating countries in SEE will be supported in applying the methods for collecting accurate and reliable solid waste data. In order to ensure their effective use, the capacities in selected municipalities ...


Solid Waste Management in cross-border rural and coastal areas of South Eastern Europe

Status: Completed Start date: 01.05.2015 End date: 30.06.2016 Budget 430.000,00€

The sub-project will support two regional networks, the Regional Rural Development Standing Working Group (SWG) in SEE and the Network of Associations of Local Authorities of South-East Europe (NALAS), to establish cooperation between different pilot regions and facilitate networking of stakeholders ...


Southeast Europe and Central Asia IFC ECA Public-Private Partnership Infrastructure Advisory Program

Status: Completed Start date: 01.06.2015 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 5.158.609,00€

The ECA Program, managed by the International Finance Corporation IFC, is providing infrastructure transaction advisory and capacity building services to the public sector authorities to promote PublicPrivate Partnerships in Southeastern Europe and Central Asia. Infrastructure investment requirements ...


Statistics

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 8.280.000,00€

The Action aims to support the IPA II beneficiaries in the process of harmonisation with EU standards by aligning their present methodologies and output with the statistical acquis and gradually integrating them into the European Statistical System. In addition the Action targets specifically at improving ...


Statistics

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2016 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 16.300.000,00€

The Action aims to support the IPA II beneficiaries in the process of harmonisation with EU standards by aligning their present methodologies and output with the EU acquis in statistics and gradually integrating them into the European Statistical System. In addition the Action targets specifically ...


Stärkung der Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Good Governance in SEE durch Ausbau der International Law Enforcement Coordination Units (ILECUs) zur Bekämpfung der grenzüberschreitenden organisierten Kriminalität

Status: Completed Start date: 01.02.2013 End date: 31.03.2016 Budget 750.000,00€

Die nachhaltige Verbesserung der nationalen, internationalen und regionalen Kooperation im Kampf gegen die grenzüberschreitende organisierte Kriminalität (OK) ist für die Stärkung von Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Good Governance eine wichtige Herausforderung in Südost- und Osteuropa. Als wichtiger Meilenstein ...


Stärkung zivilgesellschaftlicher Netzwerke und Inklusion älterer Menschen

Status: Completed Start date: 01.02.2016 End date: 31.07.2019 Budget 55.300,00€

Stärkung zivilgesellschaftlicher Netzwerke und Inklusion älterer Menschen


Strengthening Consumer Organisations for better Municipal Services in South-East Europe

Status: Completed Start date: 01.11.2014 End date: 30.06.2016 Budget 400.000,00€

Strengthening the capacities of Consumer organisations SEE in advocating for the rights and protection of consumers of municipal services with support from the Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs (BEUC), fostering a dialogue between these organisations and representatives of public utilities ...


Strengthening economic governance and public financial management

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 8.000.000,00€

The EU enlargement strategy 2013-14 puts emphasis on strengthening the dialogue on economic governance with candidate countries and potential candidates. In accordance with this strategy, the beneficiaries are invited to enhance economic policy and its governance through the ...


Strengthening of the Western Balkan Enterprise Development and Innovation Facility

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2023 Budget 32.000.000,00€

The Western Balkans Enterprise Development and Innovation Facility (EDIF) was launched in December 2012 in response to the demand for enhanced private sector financing in the region, in particular for the innovative and high-potential SMEs which are the engines of economy. The initiative was originally ...


Strengthening the CEFTA Structures and their implementation capacities (2015-2017)

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 4.470.000,00€

The overall objective of the Action is to promote intra-regional trade and investment flows by strengthening the secretariat of the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA). The CEFTA secretariat will thus be able to provide support to the parties of the agreement, in particular in areas where special ...


Support for Improvement in Governance and Management (SIGMA) in the Western Balkans and Turkey

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 18.306.122,00€

SIGMA contributes to strengthen public administrations in the Western Balkans and Turkey so that beneficiaries' administrations correspond to European values of democracy, human rights and the Rule of Law, strengthen integrity, predictability, accountability, legality and transparency and provide quality ...


Support for Low Emission Development in SEE (SLED)

Status: Completed Start date: 01.06.2013 End date: 30.06.2016 Budget 1.255.500,00€

The project is proposed by REC and UNDP Kosovo to support low emission development in the South East European region. The project provides background for stakeholders involved in developing strategies, policies and measures as well as identifying opportunities for direct investment. It will build upon ...


Support to CEFTA Secretariat

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 285.000,00€

Since 2001, regional trade policy in the region of South East Europe has been developed and implemented under the auspices of the Stability Pact’s Trade Working Group. With the entry into force of Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) in 2006 responsibility for facilitating, managing, monitoring ...


Support to judicial reform in the Western Balkans

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.1970 End date: 01.01.1970 Budget 186.068,00€


Support to preventing and combating violent extremism (P/CVE) in the Western Balkans

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 3.000.000,00€

The action aims to assist the Western Balkans in their efforts to prevent and combat violent extremism, notably by introducing the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) model and its approach in the Western Balkans and by carrying out small scale actions with specialised (international) organisations ...


Support to SEETO (South East Europe Transport Observatory) Strategic Work Programme 2015-2017

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2016 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 755.000,00€

This action aims at securing the support for the implementation of the SEETO (South East Europe Transport Observatory) Strategic Work Programme (2015-2017), with the objective of fully integrating South East Europe into the European Transport market, as well as enhancing the overall performance of the ...


Support to the follow-up of electoral recommendations in the Western Balkans

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 1.400.000,00€

The action aims to assist the five OSCE participating States in the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia), as well as Kosovo*, in bringing the conduct of elections closer in line with OSCE commitments and other international ...


Support to the Regional Rural Development Standing Working Group

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 1.000.000,00€

The action will provide support to the Regional Rural Development Standing Working Group (SWG) in South Eastern Europe. The SWG is an intergovernmental organisation operating in the field of agriculture and rural development. The focus of its activities is related to economic development of rural ...


Support to the Western Balkans Investment Framework for Technical Assistance for 2016

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2022 Budget 36.000.000,00€

The Action will provide technical assistance for the successful preparation and implementation of major investment projects. It will in particular support investment projects identified in the Single Project Pipelines with a regional dimension, which are priorities for the IPA II beneficiaries in ...


Support to the Western Balkans Investment Framework for Technical Assistance for 2015

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2016 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 30.000.000,00€

The first and principle component of this Action will allow financing Technical Assistance for the successful preparation and implementation of major investment projects. In particular, it will support investment projects with a regional dimension, which are priorities for the IPA II beneficiaries in ...


Support to Transitional Justice

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 850.000,00€

The specific objective of the Action is to build capacity of the national prosecutors and young professional of post-Yugoslav countries to carry out effective war crimes investigations and trials at national level and improve cooperation among the national prosecutors' offices and to strengthen regional ...


Support to Western Balkans Infrastructure Investment projects for 2014

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 35.540.000,00€

This Action will allow financing Technical Assistance for the preparation of major investment projects. In particular, it will support investment projects with a regional dimension which are priorities for the IPA II beneficiaries in the Western Balkans and the enlargement process. The Western Balkans ...


Swiss Contribution to the Regional Housing Programme for Durable Solutions for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in the Western Balkans

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.1970 End date: 01.01.1970 Budget 0,00€

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia have agreed in 2011 on a comprehensive regional program for the provision of housing for internally displaced persons and internally displaced persons (IDP) of the 1991-95 war. Switzerland is participating in this initiative, which allows 27 000 ...


Swiss IMF Technical Assistance Subaccount

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.2016 End date: 31.01.2016 Budget 22.100.000,00€

It is widely recognized that sound Public Financial Management (PFM) and a strong and stable financial sector are essential conditions for socio-economic development and poverty reduction. Therefore, demand for technical assistance in these areas is increasing. The IMF, with its proven expertise in the ...


Swiss Regional Police Cooperation Programme in the Western Balkans

Status: Completed Start date: 01.08.2011 End date: 30.06.2017 Budget 5.285.991,00€

The Western Balkan countries have made substantial progress towards stability and security. Yet, transnational organized crime is a serious problem for the entire region and Western Europe. Countries have recognised the need for a common legal framework and standards, and the importance of transnational ...


Technical Assistance and Information Exchange (TAIEX)

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 12.200.000,00€

The overall aim of the Technical Assistance and Information Exchange instrument (TAIEX) is to provide peer-to-peer technical assistance and capacity building in order to support IPA II beneficiaries in the approximation with, and implementation of the EU acquis. TAIEX supports short term, demand-driven ...


Technical Assistance and Information Exchange (TAIEX)

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 1.200.000,00€

TAIEX, the Technical Assistance and Information Exchange instrument, supports IPA II beneficiaries by providing short-term, peer-to-peer capacity building with regard to the approximation, application and enforcement of EU legislation as well as advice about EU best practices. The instrument is largely ...


Technical Assistance for Roma integration at community level (TARO)

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 5.000.000,00€

As part of the EU policies for better integration of Roma the action aims to build capacity and empower local Roma communities working with local authorities in the Western Balkans and Turkey in achieving sustainable results and lasting impact for Roma women, men and children in the areas of education, ...


Technical Assistance to Connectivity in the Western Balkans

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2016 End date: 31.12.2021 Budget 10.354.000,00€

The Action is to support the development of a regional energy market and the extension of the electricity and gas networks as well as of the Trans-European Transport Core Network (TEN-T core network) in the Western Balkans region. In this perspective, the Action will not only contribute to bringing ...


Technical assistance towards the implementation of the new Paris Climate Agreement

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 500.000,00€

The Action is to support the implementation of the 2015 Paris climate agreement in the Western Balkans and Turkey. Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey have formally submitted their contributions to the new climate agreement as a first ...


Technology Transfer Capacity Building in the Western Balkans

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2016 End date: 31.12.2019 Budget 1.500.000,00€

The overall objective of this action is to support regional economic growth and to promote job creation via the establishment of an eco-system that would encourage intra-regional cooperation on research, increase levels of collaboration with industry and SMEs, and further foster the integration ...


The Western Balkan Enterprise Development and Innovation Facility (WB EDIF) Coordination

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2016 End date: 31.12.2023 Budget 5.100.000,00€

The Western Balkans Enterprise Development and Innovation Facility (EDIF) was launched in December 2012 in response to the demand for enhanced private sector financing in the region, in particular for the innovative and high-potential SMEs which are the engines of economy. EDIF includes three regional ...


Themis Network – Stage 2: Promoting regional cooperation in SEE via networking within the authorities responsible for the environment and justice sectors

Status: Completed Start date: 01.10.2014 End date: 30.09.2017 Budget 1.050.000,00€

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, and Kosovo are facing major difficulties in the implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, resulting in inefficient environmental protection and loose natural resource management. The proposed project, ...


TRIALOG: Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen am Westbalkan für Globale Entwicklung

Status: Completed Start date: 01.12.2015 End date: 30.11.2017 Budget 150.000,00€

TRIALOG: Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen am Westbalkan für Globale Entwicklung


Trusteeship agreements for European Fund for Southeast Europe and Green for Growth Fund, and replenishment of the Green for Growth Fund TA Facility

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2016 End date: 31.12.2023 Budget 9.000.000,00€

This action aims at securing continuation of the EU investments in the two financial instruments: the Green for Growth Fund (GGF) and the European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE). The GGF has been set up in 2009 to enhance energy efficiency and reduce emissions ...


WBIF. Norwegian co-chairmanship 2016.

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.1970 End date: 01.01.1970 Budget 70.869,00€


Western Balkan Municipal Infrastructure Development Fund (MIDF)

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.2013 End date: 31.12.2016 Budget 7.000.000,00€

Local infrastructure across the Western Balkans suffers from a significant backlog of investments The Municipal Infrastructure Development Fund is an innovative financing vehicle dedicated to support municipal infrastructure projects by providing the long term funding and sustainability in municipal ...


Western Balkans Youth Window under Erasmus +

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2015 End date: 31.12.2018 Budget 3.600.000,00€

The European Union shares with the Western Balkans ambitious objectives for smart, inclusive and sustainable growth with a view to delivering high levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion. Investing in human and social capital is an essential condition to achieve those growth targets. The ...


Western Balkans Youth Window under Erasmus +

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2016 End date: 31.12.2019 Budget 3.600.000,00€

The European Union shares with the Western Balkans ambitious objectives for smart, inclusive and sustainable growth with a view to delivering high levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion. Investing in human and social capital is an essential condition to achieve those growth targets. The ...


Western Balkans Youth Window under Erasmus +

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2017 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 3.000.000,00€

Western Balkans Youth Window under Erasmus + The European Union shares with the Western Balkans ambitious objectives for smart, inclusive and sustainable growth with a view to delivering high levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion. Investing in human and social capital is an essential ...


Witness Protection

Status: Completed Start date: 31.12.2016 End date: 31.12.2020 Budget 5.000.000,00€

The Action aims to reinforce the institutional capacity of the Witness Protection units and other relevant agencies in the beneficiaries to offer protection to witnesses and collaborators of justice, before, during and after the trial, within and/or outside their territory; and to strengthen the inter-agency ...


World Bank Trust Fund Strengthening Accountability and Fiduciary Environment (SAFE) in Public Financial Management

Status: Completed Start date: 01.01.2010 End date: 31.01.2017 Budget 6.213.803,21€

Strengthening the quality of Public Financial Management (PFM) responds to the widely shared concern that many governments in transition countries are not spending their financial resources as effectively and transparently as they should, and that institutional controls on public expenditures are weak. ...


* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence