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Donor Coordination MeetingBelgrade, 4th of June 2012

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Presentation of the Report on International Assistance to the Republic of Serbia in 2011;

Status of IPA 2013 programming and complementarity with IPA 2012

Aid Coordination Mechanism

Main topics:

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Structure of the Report on International Assistance to the Republic of Serbia in 2011:

1. REPORT OVERVIEW2. POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT3. COORDINATION OF DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA4. STRUCTURE AND THE LEVEL OF IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE5. FUTURE ACTIVITIES AND CHALLENGES6. ANNEXES

Annex 1 – Overview of estimated disbursement of international assistance in 2011 by development partners and sectors (The amounts are in millions of EUR)

Annex 2 – Overview of trainings held in 2011 in the field of international assistance coordination

Annex 3 – List of international assistance agreements concluded in 2011

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COORDINATION OF DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN 2011:

Increased ownership in coordination of donor activities

Improved cooperation with civil society organisations

Development of NAD (indicators), monitoring tool ongoing

Challenging IPA 2012 programming – introduction of sectoral approach

Introduction of Decentralised Management – compliance assessment has been finalised

Capacity building improved, communication and awareness (Conference „Ten years of development assistance to the Republic of Serbia” organized in April, trainings, manuals prepared, ect.)

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STRUCTURE AND LEVEL OF IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE

Trend of estimated disbursement of international assistance during the period 2001-2011, expressed in millions of Euros, source: the ISDACON information system

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Report on International Assistance to the Republic of Serbia in 2011

Proportion of estimated disbursement of grants and concessional loans during the period 2001-2011, expressed in millions of EUR, source: the ISDACON information system

Grants and Concessional Loans Estimated disbursement of the total international assistance in 2011 is about 1.02 billion Euros

Relation between estimated disbursement of grants and concessional loans in 2011, expressed in millions of EUR, source: ISDACON information system

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Overview of International Assistance by Sectors

Report on International Assistance to the Republic of Serbia in 2011

Estimated disbursement of international assistance in 2011 by the sectors defined in the document “Needs of the Republic of Serbia for international assistance 2011-2013” Source: the ISDACON information system

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FUTURE ACTIVITIES AND CHALLENGES

Main challenges in the area of use of international assistance for 2012 are:

Elections and possible consequences of slow-down of certain activities in the period until the establishment of the new Government

Preparation of Serbia for the use of funds from the new EU Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance, within the new EU financial perspective and budget for 2014- 2020

Reaching Conferral of Management Powers (Decentralised Management)

Preparation of new donor strategies

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In parallel with the finalization of IPA 2012 Program throughout the first half of 2012, national administration has embarked programming of IPA 2013. This first (identification) phase encompasses following steps:

Joint seminar on programming for EU Delegation and SEIO on lessons learnt from programming of IPA 2012 – end March 2012;

Sector based discussions on strategic priorities for IPA 2013 in the scope of national working groups for programming - 1st half of April 2012;

Preparation of the sector (gap) analysis – 1st half of May 2012 Preparation of Sector/Project Identification Fiches (SIFs/PIFs) by national

authorities under supervision of SEIO – ongoing; Follow-up meetings with EU Delegation and DG ELARG representatives in the

scope of sector working groups – mid June 2012 Submission of SIFs/PIFs by SEIO to DG ELARG for quality review – end

June/beginning of July 2012; Review of SIFs/PIFs by Commission (parallel review by the donor community in

order for national authorities to receive full set of comments)

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Second phase – Preparation of Sector/Project Fiches (SFs/PFs) (throughout 2nd half of year 2012)

Preparation of the SFs/PFs by national authorities under the supervision of SEIO on the basis of comments received from the Commission and the Donor Community;

Commission (and Donor Community) review of SFs/PFs; Revision of SFs/PFs by national authorities coordinated by SEIO;

Third phase – Adoption process

Commission initiates the formal adoption process (IPA 2013 Financing Proposal); IPA Committee, Commission Decision and Financing Agreement for IPA 2013

* It is expected that IPA 2013 Program shall be implemented in the decentralised management modality

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Status of the aid coordination groups

5 aid coordination groups established: Environment, Transport, Agriculture, Gender equality and Energy

4 Rule of Procedures (or ToR’s) developed, RoP for agriculture in preparation.Discussions on establishment of the cross sector aid coordination group on Roma integration issues ongoing

Training on SWAp integrated into Strategic Planning Training organized by General Secretariat in cooperation with Human Resource Office

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