East Europe and Central Asia

Country Projects Date Funding Agency Role, Project Budget

Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan

AGROCOMP – Value chain competitiveness of agro-business & food processing SMEs through sustainable development and eco-innovation.
Objective is to create and reinforce the Professional Network of joint stakeholders’ Expertise – PNE to effectively support food production and processing enterprises for competitive quality leap.

FROM 02/2017
TO 02/2020

EU- EuropeAid
Central Asia Invest

Leader,
1.497.000 €

Kazakhstan

ODAK – Enbek-Kazakh Alliance for Sustainable Economic and Human Development
Objective is to create a favourable environment for using the economic opportunities of Enbek-Kazakh District and increasing jobs and revenues of small farmers, and self-employed people, notably young and women, trough enhancing CSOs’ contributions to governance and local development processes”

FROM 03/2017
TO 07/2020

EU- EuropeAid CSO

Leader,
572,358 €

Azerbaijan

Supporting Azerbaijani BSOs and agro food SMEs in enhancing export, value adding operations and environmental sustainability
The Project seeks to improve capacities of Azerbaijani BSOs to effectively support SMEs from the agro food sector in adding value and environmental sustainability to their business.

FROM 18/10/2015 TO 18/06/2017

EuroChambres East Invest
II Twinning Programme

Partner,
65.000 €

Azerbaijan

“RuralisTornare”
Project objectives are: i) to improve the existing and develop new demand-based services to be delivered by Azerbaijani BSOs to local micro and small enterprises (MSMEs); ii) to boost sustainable tourism development in rural areas of Azerbaijan.

FROM 18/10/2015 TO 18/06/2017

EuroChambres East Invest
II Twinning Programme

Leader,
75.390 €

Russian Federation

“BLAGO- Bettering Livelihood of vulnerable and low income communities in Siberia, through enhancement of capabilities and role of grassroots CSOs and groups”
The Project’s objective is to improve capabilities of grassroots NGOs and community groups in promoting effective and sustainable economic development in deprived rural areas of Siberia.

FROM 1/10/2014 TO 30/09/2017

EU-
EuropeAid Non State Actors
(NSA) Russia

Leader,
627.794,68 €

Armenia

Developing partnership for SME promotion
Objective is to foster technical cooperation among the three business organizations involved, Formaper, Zaragoza Chamber of Commerce and the Foundation for Small and Medium Business in Yerevan.

FROM 02/2012 TO 01/2013

EuroChambres East
Invest Twinning Programme

Leader,
78.000 €

Ukraine Building
capacities and twinning cooperation in
the field of SMEs
training and assistance,
through know-how and good
practises exchange among partners

Objectives are: Tobroaden capacities and services portfolio of Sevastopol Chamber
of Commerce and to develop
partnerships between Siauliai Chamber of Commerce (applicant, Lithuania), Formaper and Sevastopol Chamber. 		FROM 02/2012
TO 01/2013 		EuroChambres East
Invest Twinning Programme 		Leader,

78.000 €

Kyrgyz Republic Women in
Action and Solidarity Against Poverty in Kyrgyz Republic

Objective is to provide comprehensive support and income generation opportunities to vulnerable and
poor women
living in deprived rural areas. 		FROM 02/2012
TO 01/2014 		EU-
EuropeAid Non-State Actors (NSA)
and Local Authorities
in Development 		Leader,

386.446 €

Uzbekistan IBPP
III
–
New
social
assistance schemes to promote income generating opportunities for most
vulnerable households

Project objectives are
to foster positive
economic impact and
livelihood at community level and
support social reintegration
of vulnerable groups of population. 		FROM
June 12/06/2013

TO
30/07/2015

EU- EuropeAid

– Institution Building Partnership Programme (IBPP)

Leader, 249.919 €
Uzbekistan IBPP
II
–
RESOMAR
–
Enlarging
the
network
of
Women
Help
Desks
– an
Integrated Project
to
Reduce
Social Marginality and Empower Vulnerable Women in Ferghana,
Andijan, and Tashkent

Objective of
the Action is to
reinforce and expand
the network of
Women Help Desks and to build the capacities of Uzbek CSOs in spreading a culture of respect and promotion of women’s rights.

FROM 12/2011

TO 06/2013 		EU- EuropeAid

– Institution Building Partnership Programme (IBPP)

Leader,

250.009 €

Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, China “Multi-local
women’s
Partnership
against poverty”

Aim
of the
action is
to improve existing interventions
in support of disadvantaged /vulnerable
women living
in the target regions.

FROM 03/2011

TO 09/2013 		EU- EuropeAid Non-State
Actors (NSA) Multi-country call 		Leader, 989.689 €
Uzbekistan “International Study Tour
for
the
staff
of
the
Chamber of
Commerce and Industry”

Objective
is to
gain international experience in institutional design
of Business
Facilitation Centers or
similar establishments.

10/ 2010 UNDP- United Nations Dev. Leader,

15.000 €

Uzbekistan “IBPP
I –
Promoting
a Culture
of
Women’s
Rights
in
Uzbekistan.
An Integrated Project to Reduce Social Marginality and Empower Vulnerable Women in Tashkent, Kokand and Navoi”

Objective is
to strengthen the
capacity of the Civic
Initiatives Support Center, two
selected regional NGOs and
public institutions of the three target regions. 		FROM 04/2009
TO 11/2010 		EU- EuropeAid Tacis
Institution Building
Partnership Programme (IBPP) 		Leader, 249.830 €
Russian Federation “Building
capacities and
networks
for
immigrant
and
ethnic
minority’s women: an
integrated
approach
and
project
to fight
gender
and
ethnic discrimination in Russia”

The
project is designed
to fight the ethnic and
otherwise discrimination in
8 regions
of the Russian Federation
(Samara, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Izhevsk,
Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Petrozavodsk). 		FROM 01/2008

TO 09/2010

EU- EuropeAid Tacis
Institution Building
Partnership Programme (IBPP) 		Leader,

343.577 €

Russian Federation “Kaliningrad
Alliance for
Women’s
Empowerment”

The
Action aims
in particularly to reduce the
social and economic marginality and consequent vulnerability of women living in Kaliningrad Region. 		FROM 06/2008

TO 06/2010

EU- EuropeAid Tacis
Institution Building
Partnership Programme (IBPP) 		Partner,
41.560 €
Kazakhstan “Boosting
a culture
of
Women’s
Rights
in Kazakhstan
– Integrated Project to Reduce Social
Marginality
and
Empower
Vulnerable Women in Kokchetav,
Chimkent, Enbekshi-Kazak”

The overall objective is to strengthen the capacity building of several civil service organizations,
NGOs, cultural institutions
and entities meant to offer services
to women. 		FROM
09/2008
TO 04/2010 		EU-EuropeAid Tacis- Institution Building
Partnership Programme (IBPP) 		Leader,

236.384 €

Russian Federation “Administrative
Reform II
– Improvement
in Public Expenditure Management/Civil Service
Training
– Lot 2”

The overall
objective of the project is
to assist the
government of the Russian Federation in
its reforms to
build up
a comprehensive
public expenditure
management (PEM) system. 		FROM 07/2005

TO 12/2006 		EU- EuropeAid TACIS Programme Leader 1.479.875 €
Russian Federation “Strengthening
of
civil society as a key for
women’s
empowerment: integrated project to fight
domestic violence and promote women’s self employment
in Kaliningrad”

Project is
meant to strengthen the
capacity of Kaliningrad’s
civil society to address
the needs of women
in crisis and to orientate
women overcoming crisis to entrepreneurship. 		FROM 02/2006

TO 08/2007 		EU- EuropeAid Tacis
Institution Building
Partnership Programme (IBPP) 		Leader,

196.216 €

Russia, Ukraine,
Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, EU 		“MTP
–NIS Managers’
Training
Programme
I and II”

MTP provided
more than
1,738 traineeships
in eight EU countries for managers
from Russia
and other NIS countries.
MTP offered 1,
2 and
3 months sponsored
internships in
EU companies working on substantial management projects.

FROM
1999

TO 2003

EU- EuropeAid TACIS Programme Partner,

21.000.000 €

Russian Federation and Italy “Russian
Managers
in
North-Eastern
Italy
II,
III and IV (e-learning approach)”

The project
objective was to
deliver training in Italy
to Russian young managers as
well as to
create and consolidate
a network
of relations between Italian and Russian enterprises. 		FROM
2003

TO 2004

Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

-Law
no. 212/92.

Partner, 1.673.710 €
Russian Federation and Italy “MDSF fund –
Implementation
of
new knowledge
and
skills
(EU
–
TACIS Managers Training Programme)”

The
objective of the project
was to support trainees and
their home companies to implement targeted projects and changes.

FROM
2003

TO 2003

EU- EuropeAid
TACIS Programme 		Partner, 98,000 €
Russian Federation “Follow-up
events.
(EU
–
TACIS
Managers
Training Programme)”

The MTP Follow-up conference was designed to answer the need of measuring the
actual impact of
MTP on the home companies
as well as on
further professional development and personal growth of former MTP trainees.

FROM
2003

TO 2003

EU- EuropeAid
TACIS Programme 		Partner
Russia and Ukraine “Evaluation of the Project “Entrepreneurship in Education and Training” in Russia and Ukraine”

The project is meant to evaluate the EET project whose overall objective was preparing directors and teaching staff in 8 pilot VET institutions (4 in St. Petersburg,
4 in
Kyiv) for the
reform of the VET system.

FROM
2005

TO 2005

European Training Foundation Leader,

19.000 €

Ukraine “Becoming
a Women
entrepreneur
service sector”

The Project
is aimed at developing
in potential women
entrepreneurs the
business skills and the confidence necessary to initiate, launch
and run a
business successfully in the
service sector.

FROM
1999

TO 1999

EU- EuropeAid TACIS Programme Partner,

20.000 €

Ukraine “Training Programme for managers
for the
economic and international co-operation”

Development and Implementation of training modules for 15 consultants of
the Economic Institute of Management
in Kiev.

FROM
1997

TO 1997

Italian Government of Foreign Affairs – Law 212/92 Partner,

20.000 €