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 Serbia Gets its First ‘Disaster Resilient’ Municipality
In summer 2008, the Serbian city of Kragujevac, in cooperation with the local Red Cross and USAID, hosted a best practices fair for disaster management and prevention... Read More ...
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 Sound Accounting Key to Improving Armenian Healthcare
On April 1, 2008, fifteen accountants from primary healthcare (PHC) facilities in Armenia’s Tavush region completed a 36-hour “Financial Accounting and Cost Accounting” training course delivered by USAID/Armenia’s Primary Healthcare Reform Project (PHCR)... Read More ...
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 Civil Registry Gains Momentum in Georgia
The Civil Registry Agency (CRA) provides Georgian citizens with essential documents such as passports, birth certificates, and national identification cards. USAID support to the CRA—through its Civil Registry Reform II activity... Read More ...
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 Public, Businesses Profit from Public Registry Reforms
Giorgi Goglidze was skeptical when he heard a public service announcement on television saying that he could call the Information Center of the National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR) from the comfort of his home... Read More ...
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 Tajik Leaders Consider Australian Example for Land Code Reforms
Recently, the USAID Tajikistan Land Reform and Market Development Project organized a study tour for a group of Tajik government officials and parliamentarians to Australia, where, like in Tajikistan, all land is owned by the state... Read More ...
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 Revenue Service Posts Georgia Business Registry Online
Thea Shonia, a start-up businesswoman, is helping to save Georgians an estimated 126,000 trips a month to their local tax inspectorates to obtain business registry abstracts... Read More ...
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 Permit Reforms Give Entrepreneur, Community Reason to Cheer
A modern children’s playground is replacing the ugly garages and old, dirty trash containers that used to fill a large yard across from the Zugdidi Railway Station in Georgia... Read More ...
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 US Supports Roundtable on Oil Revenues and Institutional Reforms
With the support from USAID, Eurasia Foundation (EF) and the Entrepreneurship Development Foundation concluded their final one-day roundtable entitled “Oil Revenues and Institutional Reforms” on July 12 in Baku... Read More ...
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 Accounting Experts Convene to Help Uzbekistan Develop Audit
In February USAID’s Accounting/Certified International Professional Accountant project organized a round-table discussion entitled “International Federation of Accountants and Development of Accounting and Audit in Uzbekistan.”... Read More ...
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 Kosovo’s Third “One-Stop Shop” Opens Its Doors
Bringing municipal services closer to the people is the overarching goal of the USAID-supported Citizen Service Centers, also known as "one-stop shops." On April 24, Kosovo’s third and newest Center opened in its doors... Read More ...
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 Bulgarian Local Government Initiative Celebrates Achievements
At a conference on April 17, USAID celebrated the successful completion of its local government reform assistance program in Bulgaria... Read More ...
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 USAID’s Project Standardizes Municipal Development
In early April, Eurasia Foundation (EF) Azerbaijan, through USAID’s Strengthening Municipal Budget Transparency Initiatives and Increasing Public Participation project office, hosted a workshop and presentation... Read More ...
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 Youth Fund Hits Stride in Azerbaijan
Thirty-four young Azerbaijanis ages 16-30 gathered on February 19-20 in Novkhani, Azerbaijan to participate in the third workshop of Eurasia Foundation-run (EF) Youth Fund program... Read More ...
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 Helping Kyrgyzstan Develop a Land Reform Policy
At a conference in February, the USAID Land Reform and Market Development Project presented to the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan, national and local government agencies, and the general public, its findings and recommendations... Read More ...
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 Georgia’s IT Experts Get ‘Networked’
Alumni of a USAID training exchange recently established the Information Technology Association of Georgia—the first of its kind—to support Georgia’s burgeoning Information Technology (IT) industry... Read More ...
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 Court Reforms Benefit Citizens, Attract Investors
When Zana Perla went to the Sarajevo Municipal Court to check on the status of her court case, she gave the clerk her case number and was finished in just a few minutes. “It was fast and efficient,” she says... Read More ...
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 USAID Boosts Azerbaijan’s Economic Research Capacity
The USAID-supported Public Investment Policy (PIP) Project is a technical assistance project which helps the Government of Azerbaijan to develop its capacity in long and medium term investment planning and programming... Read More ...
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 One-Stop Shops Demonstrate Enduring Success
One of the goals of USAID’s BIZPRO project has been to support the development of permit-issuing one-stop shops (OSS) for businesses. From 2004 to 2006, BIZPRO helped open 41 one-stop shops in cities across Ukraine... Read More ...
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 Moldova, US Sign $24.7M Millennium Challenge Agreement
On December 15, Moldova and the US signed a $24.7 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Threshold Program agreement aimed at reducing government corruption... Read More ...
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 Representatives of Central Asian Customs Agencies Discuss
Improvements in Customs Procedures
From December 7-8, USAID organized a seminar for Central Asia’s customs officials to present the results and recommendations of a USAID-funded assessment on the local customs compliance with international standards... Read More ...
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 Commercial Law Reform Program Celebrates Successes
After three years of promoting reforms, the USAID/Bulgaria Commercial Law Reform Program (CLRP) announced the completion of work in three of its four program areas... Read More ...
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 Macedonia Modernizes Construction Permit Process
The process for receiving permission to start new construction projects in Macedonia is set to become more streamlined with the distribution of a Construction Permitting Package to all municipalities by USAID... Read More ...
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 Tajikistan Expands Successful School Budgeting Pilot Program
On October 30, the Government of Tajikistan agreed to expand the new school finance mechanism to ten additional regions from the current five pilot regions of Kulob, Vahdat, Yavan, Khojand, and Khorog... Read More ...
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 Kosovo Property Tax Initiatives Bear Fruit
A new strategy applied by Gjakovë/Djakovica municipality, with assistance from USAID's Local
Government Initiative, resulted in an increase of property tax collection during August and September 2006... Read More ...
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 Kyrgyzstan is Recognized as a Leader in Appraisal Reform by Newly Independent States Appraisers
The Newly Independent States (NIS) Council of Appraisers elected Kyrgyzstan to chair the Congress of NIS Appraisers during 2007 in acknowledgment of the country’s leading role among their NIS colleagues in appraisal reforms... Read More ...
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 Serbia’s Citizen Centers Offer Fast-Track to Bureaucracy
The process of going to municipality offices for birth or marriage certificates, notary services, construction permits or other municipal services is generally a tedious undertaking... Read More ...
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 Kosovo’s Budget Department Builds New Skills
Eight staff members from Kosovo’s Department of Budget and Treasury of the Ministry of Economy
and Finance (MEF), participated in a training on performance and program budgeting... Read More ...
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 US Ambassador and Sofia Mayor Inaugurate One-Stop Service Centers
U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria John Beyrle and Sofia Mayor Boyko Borissov inaugurated the first municipal customer service centers in Sofia’s Studentski, Mladost and Vazrazhdane districts on June 12th... Read More ...
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 Kosovo Ministry Unveils New Mission, Credits USAID for Success
Improving the standard-of-living for all of Kosovo’s people by fostering a stable and healthy investment environment is the new vision for the Ministry of Finance and Economy (MFE)... Read More ...
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 State Committee Issues Order to Protect Villagers’ Rights and Pocketbooks
On March 27, the new Head of Ukraine’s State Committee on Land Resources (DKZ), Mykola Sydorenko issued an order that clearly establishes that citizens should not pay fees for the registration of land titles... Read More ...
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 Regional World Bank’s Doing Business Report Identifies Necessary Reforms for
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
Kyrgyz Republic was ranked 84th, Kazakhstan 86th, and Uzbekistan 138th among 155 countries, based on specific regulations that promote or constrain investment productivity and growth... Read More ...
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 BiH’s New Citizen Service Centers Cut Wait Time by Half
When Radomir Macar, a pensioner from Sokolac, needed documents to prove his citizenship, he never expected the process would be so quick... Read More ...
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 Macedonian Workers Get to Choose: Using Today’s Technology to Plan for
Tomorrow’s Retirement
The older we get, the more we worry about our pensions. For most of us, just the thought of sorting out the complexities puts us off... Read More ...
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 Door-to-Door Campaign Doubles Macedonian Municipality’s Tax Base
Little did Mustaf Mustafa know that just a year after finishing his University studies, he’d be in charge of a critical assignment that will have an enormous impact on his community.... Read More ...
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 Ukraine Land Titling Initiative Boosts Private Property Ownership
Nearly 600 citizens gathered at the Liubovytska Village Rada, located in Malyn raion (district), on June 29, 2005 to receive Land Share Certificates for the right to ownership of land parcels... Read More ...
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 New Value-Added Tax Generates Revenue for Serbia
The introduction of a value-added tax (VAT) is a prerequisite for EU accession and a logical successor to the sales tax that provided Serbia's single largest source of state budget revenues
(around 40%)... Read More ...
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 Progress toward Pension Reform – Labor Takes a Seat at the Negotiating Table …
Beograd, Serbia - Two USAID projects teamed-up to discuss the benefits of pension reform with labor and government. USAID partners BearingPoint and the American Center for International Labor Solidarity (ACILS)... Read More ...
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