Our research aimed to support the development of a new GTZ program by providing an evaluation of the operation of municipal government and local civil society organisations in the three countries of the South Caucasus.

We highlighted four main domains where action could be most clearly directed in order to achieve CARE’s goal of alleviation of economic need and the enhancement of social justice and security amongst poorest rural communities.

The main focus of the evaluation was to assess the strategic direction of UNDP projects in Belarus. This project evaluated the project portfolio against the goals and also the efficacy of their programmatic focus, keeping in mind UNDP’s skill-sets, the structure of the government priorities and the changing international situation.

At the post-war donors conference approximately USD 3 billion of the USD 4.8 billion (at current exchange rates) total pledge took the form of loans. Half of the loan was pledged to the government and the other half was allocated to help support private companies. This policy paper provides a general overview of loan component of the pledge.