www.usaid.org.yu
Mission Director: Spike Stephenson
Serbia
Knez Milosa 50
11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Telephone: (381-11) 361-9344
Fax: (381-11) 361-8267
Montenegro
Krusevac BB,
8100 Podgorica, Montenegro
Telephone: (381-81) 241-050
Fax: (381-81) 241-251
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Overview
U.S. assistance to Serbia and Montenegro (SAM) is
based on fundamental U.S. national interests in Europe.
SAM is crucial to the economic development of Southeast
and Central Europe and to the political stability of
Europe as a whole. As a social, political and geographic
crossroad amid Western and Eastern Europe, Turkey,
and Greece, SAM occupies a key geographic juncture
in the Balkans. With a large population, a potential
for strong economic growth, and an important geo-strategic
location, Serbia and Montenegro’s economic and
democratic development remains central to the future
prosperity and stability of the region. USAID’s
role is to focus on democratic and economic reform
and conflict mitigation.
Serbia and Montenegro in Action
The United States of America Donates Ten Solid Waste Collection Trucks to Public Communal Enterprises
On Thursday, February 5, 2004, Roderick Moore, Charge d'Affaires, U.S. Embassy Belgrade, will hand-over ten solid waster collection trucks donated by the people of the United States through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to the municipalities of Ruma, Sabac, Vladimirci, Arilje, Uzice, Bajina Basta, Pozega, Krupanj, Mionica and Valjevo. The donation was made possible under the USAID Community Revitalization through Democratic Action (CRDA) program, a civil society program mobilizing citizens throughout Serbia to engage in improving their quality of life. In Western Serbia , the CRDA program is implemented through International Relief and Development (IRD). The hand-over ceremony will start at 12:00 noon on the parking lot in front of the Hotel Intercontinental in Belgrade. Read More...
$25
Million Raised for Balkans Through Public-Private Partnership:
Donors Leverage Funds to Solidify Democracy
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the
German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), and the
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation are pleased to announce a
new $25 million initiative to support good governance in
Southeastern Europe. The grant-making effort, called the
Balkan Trust for Democracy, is a project of GMF made possible
through a public-private partnership between GMF, USAID,
and the Mott Foundation. Read
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USAID/Serbia & Montenegro
Announces Launch of its New Website
USAID has been working in Serbia and Montenegro since 1997.
The USAID program supports Serbia and Montenegro in their
goal to be democratic, prosperous and moving toward Europe.
Our strategy aims to strengthen democracy and governance,
to support a large civil society program that fosters democracy
at the local level, and to support sustained private sector
growth and economic integration with Europe through broad-based
policy reform. Visit
their website ...
Serbia
Heating and Energy Efficiency Program
In the immediate aftermath of the resignation of President
Milosevic in October 2000, the new government of Serbia faced
critical shortages of electricity in large part caused by
extremely low prices that artificially increased demand.
Serbia’s use of electric heating is much higher than
elsewhere, where it is usually more expensive than other
heating methods. In March 2001, USAID funded a Heating and
Energy Efficiency program to help citizens deal with energy
shortages as well as with the large increases in prices that
were widely understood to be inevitable. Read
more ...
Southern
Serbia: Sowing Seeds of Change
The Presevo Valley is a remote finger of Serbia located
between Bulgaria to the east, Macedonia to the south, and
Kosovo to the west. Its gently rolling farmland lies nestled
between mountains to the north that separate it from the
rest of Serbia, even higher ranges on the east and west that
demarcate its respective boundaries with Bulgaria and Kosovo,
and a broad plain it shares with Macedonia to the south.
The area is flecked with a few major towns and numerous small
hamlets which are generally either ethnic Albanian or Serb. Read
more ...
The
Building Blocks of International Relations
(Read the write-up in the Bowling
Green News, 9/12/02)
As we approached the airport the scene from above appeared
one of tranquility and beauty. Small villages sprawled throughout
a rural landscape, country houses with tiled roofs and farm
animals roaming in nearby fields. Read
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