Filip Stoyanovich, RCI Director Regional Competitiveness Initiative

 Number of USAID Missions Involved – 15  Number of USAID Projects – 42  Number of Other Donors – 17

Events (Conferences, Workshops, Round Tables, excluding trainings): 30 SEE Region 05 Kiev 09 Belgrade 05 Sofia 05 Skopje 07 June 2009June 2005 Zagreb 06 Belgrade 06 Belgrade 08 SEE Regional 06 Bucharest 06 Budva 08 Skopje 08 Ohrid 08 Tirana 08 Yerevan 08 Sarajevo 09 Astana 07 Almaty 07 Bucharest 06 Skopje 07 Belgrade 08 Skopje 08 SEE Regional 09 Tirana 09 Skopje 09 Belgrade 09

Event Participants (excluding trainings) Around 1700 (over 40% business reps )

Besides the continuous events, RCI has:  RCI Newsletters – 14 to over 1,000 recipients ( )  Regional Information Sharing Networks for Agribusiness and Tourism – 201 documents (currently disseminated to 195 stakeholders)  Documents disseminated at events – 1,606 (over 1.8 GB of memory)

 Events (awareness, training, workshops, practical in-house) – 123  Countries – 13  Cost Sharing Partnership for the IT QS Initiative: RCI share - 33% Companies‘ share - 32% USAID Country Competitiveness Projects’ share - 13% Other donors’ share – 22%

 Participants at Trainings – 2233  Companies at Trainings – 694  Appraisals– 39 (Certified 29)  In the Process of Certification – 22

Two Annual Conferences (over 200 participants) – Budva, Montenegro and Kiev, Ukraine Four Regional Workshops (30 to 70 participants) on: Belgrade Competitiveness Round Table; Armenia Best Practices; MIC in Varazdin; Workforce Development in Skopje; EU Funding for the Agribusiness Sector in Belgrade Seven Regional Round Tables (up to 30 participants) – 3 for agribusiness (Skopje, Tirana, Belgrade) and 3 for tourism (Ohrid, Tirana, Sarajevo) National Geographic Familiarization Regional Tour of the Western Balkans

Regional Competitiveness Report 2008 (updated 2009) Macedonia Workforce Development Study (in cooperation with USAID Macedonia) Regional Workforce Development Research for AL, BiH, KS, MK, CG, SR Market Research on Regional and Global AMIS and agribusiness database web sites Research on current FDI interest in the SEE region

Quality Mark Manual – disseminated to AL, BiH, KS, MK, CG, SR, UKR (over 700 copies) Regional Agribusiness Companies Database for AL, BiH, KS, MK, MD, CG, SR (includes 812 companies and 2061 products) National Geographic Supplement – Presenting the Western Balkans: Top 50 Sites (in development) Regional IT Business Solutions Catalogue (from AL, AR, BiH, BG, HR, GE, KS, MK, MD, RO, SR, UKR) – over 80 products and services (in development)

 Events – Sector Round Tables (IT, tourism, agribusiness, etc.), Thematic Workshops (global crisis, FDI, workforce, etc.) and the 5 th Annual Conference  Regional Information Sharing – RCI Web Site, Newsletters, Information Networks, etc.  Regional IT Quality Standard Excellence Hub and Regional Competence Centers  Workforce Development Pilot Projects

 Promoting the Regions – National Geographic Supplement “Top 50 Sites” of the Western Balkans  Regional Tourism Portal for South East Europe  International Standards: Tourism – Quality Mark Initiative, Agribusiness – HAACP, Organic Produce Certificate, others  Microsoft Innovation Centers  Access to Finance and FDI