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Donor Assistance for Supporting Local Democracy in South Eastern Europe Vera M. Budway-Strobach Program Manager PASOS vbudway@pasos.org October 15, 2005. Donors’ Assistance Database for 2003 for the Stability Pact Beneficiary Countries on Local Democracy.
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Donor Assistance for Supporting Local Democracy in South Eastern Europe Vera M. Budway-Strobach Program Manager PASOS vbudway@pasos.org October 15, 2005
Donors’ Assistance Database for 2003for the Stability Pact Beneficiary Countries on Local Democracy • Donor Assistance Mapping Exercise project on Local Democracy (DAME), undertaken by : • Open Society Institute – Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (OSI-LGI), under the auspices and in close cooperation with • the OECD / Development Assistance Co-operation (OECD/DAC) and the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe (SP) • http://lgi.osi.hu/projectsdb/ • http://www.stabilitypact.org
Key Conclusions • The amount of specific local government aid in terms of the total amount of donor assistance to the Stability Pact countries is 10 - 15 % • The biggest recipients of local government assistance are Albania and Serbia and Montenegro with 31% and 22% of all local govt. assistance,respectively • Croatia, FYRMacedonia, Romania, and Moldova follow, all amounting to between 6% and 13% of all local government assistance • 20 donor countries were active in funding local government assistance projects in the region (EC, IFIs counted as separate donors) • There is a large concentration among donors: more than 2/3 of assistance funds were provided by Germany, Greece, EC, and IDA. • More than 1/3 of local government related assistance supported water supply and sanitation projects. • 1/5 of aid funds were spent on both education and government/civil society projects. The remaining 1/4 was spent on other fields such as health and population programs
Donor Assistance for Supporting Local Democracy in South Eastern Europe Vera M. Budway-Strobach Program Manager PASOS vbudway@pasos.org October 15, 2005