1. ESTONIAN ROUNDTABLE FOR DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION (AKÜ)
Riina Kuusik
AKÜ coordinator

2. The main success of the Platform during 2004
Continued form of operation – an informal network
Improving partner relations with the MFA
A few funding applications submitted and approved:
for capacity-building:
- CIDA/ODACE
- Baltic-American Partnership Program
- Open Estonia Foundation
for awareness raising:
- Fair Trade (Estonian Green Movement/FoE)
- Eastgate (Estonian European Movement)
- Terveilm (Estonian Fund for Nature)

3. Main challenges facing AKÜ during 2005
Financial sustainability
Institutionalization
Professionalization

4. Financial sustainability
Very difficult to receive an institutional support
Project based support is short-term and limited
Member organizations not (yet) ready to contribute

5. Contact Riina Kuusik, AKÜ coordinator E-mail: rkuusik@online.ee
Address:
C/O Open Estonia Foundation
Estonia Ave. 5a, Tallinn 10143, Estonia
Tel
Fax

6. Thank You!