croatia.usaid.gov
Acting Mission Director: Rebecca Latorraca
American Embassy/Zagreb
Department of State
Washington, DC 20521-5080
Tel: 385 1 6612175
Fax: 385 1 6612008 |
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Overview
Croatia's successful transition to a stable, fully democratic country with a strong economy is integral to achieving the U.S. core policy goal of stability in Southeast Europe and serves other important American interests, such as combating terrorism and trafficking in persons.
Since the inception of its program in 1992, USAID has delivered more than $320 million in assistance to Croatia through a comprehensive program that has facilitated economic and fiscal reform, strengthened democratic institutions, created agribusiness programs and established a wide range of professional training. The U.S. has supported Croatia’s entry into the EU and NATO through USAID programming. FY 2006 was the final year of USAID’s program budget for Croatia; USAID’s assistance program in Croatia will cease in 2008.
 Celebrating The Croatian-American Partnership,
USAID Legacy Publication
Croatia has undertaken a remarkable transformation since its independence in 1991. Thousands of courageous, optimistic and enterprising Croatians have realized an enduring dream of independence, democracy, and peace... Read More ...
Croatia in Action
 Croatia Celebrates Transition from USAID Recipient to Partner
USAID Assistant Administrator Douglas Menarchik traveled to Zagreb on May 14-15, 2008, to celebrate the closing of the USAID/Croatia Mission and the achievements made over 15 years of U.S. development assistance to Croatia... Read More ...
Related Items: Croatia
 USAID Welcomes Bulgaria, Romania as Sustaining Partners
USAID marked the culmination of 17 years of direct U.S. foreign assistance to Romania and Bulgaria. The two countries, now members of the European Union and NATO, have achieved key development milestones politically, economically, and socially... Read More ...
Related Items: Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia
 Training Helps Curb Animal Disease in Croatia
An outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) could have extreme economic consequences for Croatia’s extensive livestock sector... Read More ...
Related Items: Croatia, Health
 Monitoring Competition in Croatia’s Banking Sector
As soon as Tanja Ruzic assumed the role of Lead Regulator for Market Competition at the Croatian National Bank (CNB), she turned to USAID for assistance. Up until 2003, market competition in Croatia’s financial sector... Read More ...
Related Items: Croatia, Financial Markets
 Donji Miholjac Experiences Economic Revival
In Donji Miholjac, a mid-sized town located along the Hungarian border in eastern Croatia, high unemployment and a poor business climate depressed incomes for many years... Read More ...
Related Items: Croatia, Business Development
 Reducing IT Risks in Croatian Banks
In March 2002, the Croatian National Bank (CNB) and the wider public in the country realized how vulnerable commercial banks are to information technology (IT) security flaws: it had just been discovered... Read More ...
Related Items: Croatia, Financial Markets
 Dubrovnik and Monterey Commit to Long-Term Relationship
On February 2, Mayor Dubravka Šuica of Dubrovnik, Croatia and Mayor Chuck Della Sala of Monterey, California signed a Sister City Charter. The signing ceremony was witnessed by Siniša Tatalović, advisor to Croatian President Stjepan Mesić... Read More ...
Related Items: Croatia, Social Programs
 Collaboration Creates 100+ New Jobs for Croatia
Just five years ago, the Donji Miholjac area, located in eastern Croatia along the Hungarian border, suffered from high unemployment and a poor entrepreneurial climate... Read More ...
Related Items: Croatia, Business Development
 Floating Mill Restored to Life
During the last century, over 90 river mills were used to grind corn, wheat and rye for entire villages on the Mura river, located in northern Croatia. By 1980, this local tradition disappeared all together... Read More ...
Related Items: Croatia, Environment
 Croatian Climate Station Bears Fruit
Like many farmers around the world, fruit growers in the City of Velika Gorica, situated near Zagreb, struggle with adverse conditions that affect production and quality such as heavy rain, hail, frost, insects and plant diseases... Read More ...
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 Exchange Program Helps Croatian Judges Transform Commercial Law
Croatian commercial courts not only handle case work in bankruptcy, copyright law, and inter-company litigation, they also review business-related documents... Read More ...
Related Items: Croatia, Rule of Law
 Gates Lends Support to Croatia’s IT Efforts
Technology is a driving force in business and everyday life, said Bill Gates, Microsoft President in a special statement for Croatian Television... Read More ...
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 Croatian Dairy Producers Benefit from One Man’s Vision, USAID
Support
In 1992, Tomaic Commerce Ltd. did not exist, except in the vision of one person, Mr. Vladimir Tomaic. He began processing milk and producing hard cheese in his back yard with the support of his wife and children... Read More ...
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 USAID Technical Assistance Helps Croatian Businesses Expand
Many small companies face serious problems when their company outgrows the capabilities of the founding owner... Read More ...
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 Cultural Cooperation in the Dayton Triangle
The Igman Initiative, a network of 140 NGOs from Serbia and Montenegro (SaM), Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), led by the Novi Sad-based Center for Regionalism... Read More ...
Related Items: Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Democracy, Rule of Law
 $25
Million Raised for Balkans Through Public-Private Partnership:
Donors Leverage Funds to Solidify Democracy
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the
German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), and the
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation are pleased to announce a
new $25 million initiative to support good governance in
Southeastern Europe. The grant-making effort, called the
Balkan Trust for Democracy, is a project of GMF made possible
through a public-private partnership between GMF, USAID,
and the Mott Foundation. Read
More ...
 USAID,
Cleveland State University Bring Croatian Officials to
Ohio
USAID and the Unger Croatia Center for Local Government
Leadership at Cleveland State University’s Maxine Goodman
Levin College of Urban Affairs sponsored a two-week conference
for local government officials from Croatia on “Citizen
Participation in Local Government” from November 30
to December 14, 2002. Read
more ...
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