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Regional Services Center/Budapest
Mission Director: David Leong
Szabadság tér 7-9, Bank Center
1944 Budapest, Hungary
Tel: +36-1-475-4604
Fax: +36-1-302-0693
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Overview
Located in Budapest, Hungary, the USAID Regional Services Center provides legal, contracting, financial management, and administrative services for nine active programs in Southeastern Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia) and Cyprus. The RSC is a major services hub for USAID, with the second largest number of financial transactions processed and management responsibility of the largest number of awards worldwide outside of USAID headquarters in Washington, D.C. The RSC also manages a portfolio of 7 regional activities that support U.S. foreign assistance goals in Eastern Europe and Eurasia: peace, stability, integration into Europe, and transition to market-oriented democracies.
- The Office of the Regional Director has overall responsibility for the planning, direction, and management of all RSC operations. The office manages the regional training program, which provides an average of 19 in-house and regional subject-area training courses for client missions per year (including financial, administrative, information management, legal, ethics, and contracting courses).
- The Regional Legal Advisor provides guidance on a range of legal services to nine USAID Missions in the region, as well as USAID offices in Podgorica, Brussels, Frankfurt, and Geneva.
- The Regional Contracting Office provides the full range of acquisition and assistance support to client Missions and is responsible for each phase of the procurement process. The office manages approximately 200 awards totaling $1.3 billion.
- The Regional Financial Management Center provides accounting, budgeting, payroll, payment, financial analysis and financial management services for client missions in Southeastern Europe, Cyprus, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. It is responsible for an annual program budget of $350 million and $25 million in operating expense funds.
- The Executive Office provides administrative services and logistic support for program operations. It provides on-the-ground assistance for client Missions in the region, including close-out support to three Missions (Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania) and Missions moving to New Embassy Compounds.
- The Regional Program Office manages 7 regional projects active in 11 countries in Central and Southeastern Europe and Moldova. These activities support civil society strengthening, anti-corruption, and interethnic cooperation and integration.
Regional Activities
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