Cooperation Strategy Serbia 2010 - 2013 - Deza - admin.ch

SWISS COOPERATION
5. Budget and programme
management
The overall Swiss programme budget for the
period from 2010 to 2013 is approximately
CHF 63 million. SDC plans with an annual
budget of around CHF 7 million (without the
contingent scholarship project). The envisaged
distribution of the operational budget is
approximately 45% for Education, 35% for Rule
of Law and Democracy, and 20% for Economic
Development. A separate budget is provided to
SDC by the FOM to cover activities related to
migration partnerships.
SECO has allocated an annual budget of
approximately CHF 8 million for Serbia. This
does not include the financing of regional (e.g.
SIFEM) and global programmes (e.g. the SECO
Start-Up Fund) which also target Serbia. Of its
operational budget, some 60% are provisionally
earmarked for Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy and 40% for Economic Development.
The following table provides an overview of the
agencies’ budgets from 2010 to 2013. Further
details are given in Annex 1.
The envisaged slight budget increase over the
period as compared to the Cooperation Strategy
2007-2009 and new demands to improve
the effectiveness and efficiency of programme
management indicate that the current level of
expatriate and local staff must be maintained, at
least. Management staff, in particular, in charge
of policy dialogue, the supervision of operations,
and financial and human resources, should be
kept at the current level. The delegation of additional
tasks from head office to the field, as proposed
in the SDC reorganization process, would
require the corresponding human resources.
Annual bilateral budgets
(estimated disbursements in CHF million)
By agency 2010 2011 2012 2013 Total
SDC 7.0 7.0 7.0 7.0 28.0
SECO 7.1 8.1 9.1 9.1 33.4
FOM (SDC) 1.0 0.5 tbd tbd 1.5
Total 15.1 15.6 16.1 16.1 62.9
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