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Bosnia-USA Business Exchange Program
Start Date: February 1999
Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Country Background: Bosnia's 1992-95 war left the country geographically, politically and economically divided along ethnic lines. Private sector development remains weak due to the country's war damaged infrastructure, internal divisions, and inadequate legal and administrative framework. Widespread government corruption also hampers private enterprise and discourages foreign private investment. In this environment, emerging business leaders and government leaders have few opportunities to develop private sector skills.
Program Overview: : Freedom House recruits and selects participants for the Bosnia-USA Business Exchange Program, a U.S.-based training program designed to enhance the business, entrepreneurship and governance skills of Bosnian businesspeople and government officials. Through this program, Freedom House has recruited and selected 163 Bosnian entrepreneurs, business academics, and local government officials from Sarajevo, Mostar, Banja Luka, Brcko, Bijeljina, Orasje, and Tuzla to participate in two- to four-week, U.S.-based training programs in Cleveland, Dayton, or Toledo, Ohio. The participants are assigned to work in internships with American counterpart businesses.
Updates: Following the second renewal of its recruitment and selection activities in February 2001, Freedom House initiated a recruitment and selection program targeting the Northeastern Bosnian cities of Brcko, Bijeljina, Orasje and Tuzla. 28 participants from this region were selected to travel to the U.S. in July and September 2001.
Contact: Mike Staresinic, Freedom House Balkans Representative, Sarajevo
Partnership for Civil Society in Serbia
Reintegration and Leadership Development Project in Serbia (RLD)
Start Date: June 2000
Countries: Serbia
Country Background: Having emerged from a decade of war, repression, and isolation, FRY/Serbia is among the last countries in Eastern Europe to begin its political, economic, and social transition in earnest. FRY/Serbia faces many obstacles, such as: an unreconstructed judicial and law enforcement system; a devastated economy; corruption throughout most state institutions; largely new and inexperienced governmental leaders; a constitutional crisis; a volatile situation in southern Serbia & strained relations with Montenegro and Kosovo, and neighbors; obligations to comply with the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia; and massive emigration of educated/trained personnel.
The transformation of government and other power structures in Serbia after the October 2000 events have led to an improved relationship between the new government and the NGO sector. This change in the position of NGOs in the FRY provides an opportunity for greater involvement of NGOs in the country's political development, most specifically in policy-making processes at the federal, republic, and locallevels.
Program Overview: Since October 2000, support is delivered primarily through sub-grants, which provide funds for project activities, material assistance, training, and core operations. The program emphasizes regional initiatives that transfer expertise and create networks among democratic (government and NGO) activists in Serbia and elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The grant program is just one component of FH's multi-faceted approach towards Serbia - other components include high-level contacts between Washington and the new FRY/Serbian government, considerable US-based training, regional linkages with counterparts in CEE, and other forms of assistance.
Under the RLD program FH will support Serbia's reintegration into Southeastern Europe (SEE) and CEE for reconciliation, stability, and prosperity; help develop a cadre of leaders, managers, and institutions with the experience, expertise, and institutional capacity and support to lead FRY/Serbia through its transition; and, strengthen Serbia's formative civil society.
In year two of the "Partnership for Civil Society" in Serbia program, funded by C.S.Mott Foundation, Freedom House will award a total of $200,000. Of the total, $150,000 will be awarded for institutional/project grants and $50,000 for NGO projects specifically intended to address social and political tensions in southern Serbia. Activities with a focus on enhancing citizen understanding of civil rights and ethnic tolerance issues will have priority.
Download Information:
Long-Term Development of the NGO Sector (MS Word format)
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Long-Term Development of the NGO Sector (in Serbian -- MS Word format)
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Reintegration for Reconciliation, Stability and Prosperity (MS Word format)
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Reintegration for Reconciliation, Stability and Prosperity (in Serbian -- MS Word format) PDF format
Download Applications:
U.S. Internships (Visiting Fellows Program)
American Volunteers for International Development (Host Application)
American Volunteers for International Development (Volunteer Application-U.S. citizens only)
Contact: Patrick Eagan, Deputy Director, Budapest
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