Belgrade, Donor Coordination Meeting Belgrade, 4 th of June 2012

Belgrade,  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:

Belgrade, Structure of the Report on International Assistance to the Republic of Serbia in 2011: 1.REPORT OVERVIEW 2.POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT 3.COORDINATION OF DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA 4.STRUCTURE AND THE LEVEL OF IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE 5.FUTURE ACTIVITIES AND CHALLENGES 6.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 Report on International Assistance to the Republic of Serbia in 2011

Belgrade, 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.) Report on International Assistance to the Republic of Serbia in 2011

Belgrade, STRUCTURE AND LEVEL OF IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE Trend of estimated disbursement of international assistance during the period , expressed in millions of Euros, source: the ISDACON information system Report on International Assistance to the Republic of Serbia in 2011

Belgrade, Report on International Assistance to the Republic of Serbia in 2011 Proportion of estimated disbursement of grants and concessional loans during the period , 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

Belgrade, 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 ” Source: the ISDACON information system

Belgrade, 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  Reaching Conferral of Management Powers (Decentralised Management)  Preparation of new donor strategies Report on International Assistance to the Republic of Serbia in 2011

Belgrade, In parallel with the finalization of IPA 2012 Program throughout the first half of 2012, national administration has embarked programming of IPA 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 - 1 st half of April 2012;  Preparation of the sector (gap) analysis – 1 st 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) Status of IPA 2013 Programming

Belgrade, Second phase – Preparation of Sector/Project Fiches (SFs/PFs) (throughout 2 nd 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 Status of IPA 2013 Programming

Belgrade, 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 Aid Coordination Mechanism

Belgrade, Thank you for your attention!