The Joint EC/World Bank Office for South East Europe has completed its donor polling exercise launched over the Summer to determine the status of donor pledges to the Quick Start Package that were made at the Regional Funding Conference in March 2000. This covers financing of projects under the three Working Tables of the Stability Pact. Similar to the exercise it carries out every six months on Kosovo, the Joint Office has received and analyzed financial amounts from 24 donor governments and 6 international organizations to 22 sectors and some 220 projects. The report concludes that in the three months (data on financial flows date for cut-off was June 30, 2000) following the Regional Funding Conference, donors made good progress in committing pledged funds for all three Stability Pact Working Tables. Out of the total requirement for the Quick Start Package of euro 1.8 bn, as of the end of June, 1.6 bn had been committed to Quick Start projects and programs, while about euro 400 mn had in addition been allocated to Near Term projects (all in Working Table 2--Infrastructure). As shown in the separate report, Stability Pact Infrastructure Projects: Implementation Status as of October 2000, further substantial progress has been made by donors in committing funds to the Quick Start Infrastructure projects. The next exercise will be carried out to capture donor commitments, contracts and spending as of December 31, 2000.

See the Joint Office's mid-year report: Note on the Status as of June 30, 2000 of Pledges to the March 2000 Regional Funding Conference for Southeastern Europe. (pdf, 70 KB)