Filip Stoyanovich, RCI Director

Regional Competitiveness Initiative

Number of USAID Missions Involved – 15

Number of USAID Projects – 42

Number of Other Donors – 17

Events (Conferences, Workshops, Round Tables, excluding trainings): 30

SEE Region 05

Kiev 09Belgrade 05

Sofia 05

Sofia 05

Skopje 07

June 2009June 2005

Zagreb 06Belgrade 06

Belgrade 08

SEE Regional 06

Bucharest 06

Budva 08

Skopje 08

Ohrid 08Tirana 08

Yerevan 08

Sarajevo 09

Astana 07

Almaty 07

Bucharest 06

Skopje 07

Skopje 07

Skopje 07

Skopje 07

Belgrade 08

Skopje 08

SEE Regional 09

Tirana 09

Skopje 09Belgrade 09

Event Participants (excluding trainings)

Around 1700 (over 40% business reps)

Besides the continuous events, RCI has:

RCI Newsletters – 14 to over 1,000 recipients (2007-2009)

Regional Information Sharing Networks for Agribusiness and Tourism – 201 documents (currently disseminated to 195 stakeholders)

Documents disseminated at events – 1,606 (over 1.8 GB of memory)

Events (awareness, training, workshops, practical in-house) – 123

Countries – 13 Cost Sharing Partnership for the IT QS

Initiative:• RCI share - 33%

• Companies‘ share - 32%

• USAID Country Competitiveness Projects’ share - 13%

• Other donors’ share – 22%

Participants at Trainings – 2233

Companies at Trainings – 694

Appraisals– 39 (Certified 29)

In the Process of Certification – 22

Two Annual Conferences (over 200 participants) – Budva, Montenegro and Kiev, Ukraine

Four Regional Workshops (30 to 70 participants) on: Belgrade Competitiveness Round Table; Armenia Best Practices; MIC in Varazdin; Workforce Development in Skopje; EU Funding for the Agribusiness Sector in Belgrade

Seven Regional Round Tables (up to 30 participants) – 3 for agribusiness (Skopje, Tirana, Belgrade) and 3 for tourism (Ohrid, Tirana, Sarajevo)

National Geographic Familiarization Regional Tour of the Western Balkans

Regional Competitiveness Report 2008 (updated 2009)

Macedonia Workforce Development Study (in cooperation with USAID Macedonia)

Regional Workforce Development Research for AL, BiH, KS, MK, CG, SR

Market Research on Regional and Global AMIS and agribusiness database web sites

Research on current FDI interest in the SEE region

Quality Mark Manual – disseminated to AL, BiH, KS, MK, CG, SR, UKR (over 700 copies)

Regional Agribusiness Companies Database for AL, BiH, KS, MK, MD, CG, SR (includes 812 companies and 2061 products)

National Geographic Supplement – Presenting the Western Balkans: Top 50 Sites (in development)

Regional IT Business Solutions Catalogue (from AL, AR, BiH, BG, HR, GE, KS, MK, MD, RO, SR, UKR) – over 80 products and services (in development)

Events – Sector Round Tables (IT, tourism, agribusiness, etc.), Thematic Workshops (global crisis, FDI, workforce, etc.) and the 5th Annual Conference

Regional Information Sharing – RCI Web Site, Newsletters, Information Networks, etc.

Regional IT Quality Standard Excellence Hub and Regional Competence Centers

Workforce Development Pilot Projects

Promoting the Regions – National Geographic Supplement “Top 50 Sites” of the Western Balkans

Regional Tourism Portal for South East Europe

International Standards: Tourism – Quality Mark Initiative, Agribusiness – HAACP, Organic Produce Certificate, others

Microsoft Innovation Centers

Access to Finance and FDI