Overview of Donor Support to BiH
Overall allocation
The data collected in the context of the 2007 DME has revealed that the 19 participating donor agencies have earmarked approximately € 556 million during this year. This figure represents the estimated total activity level, including concessional loans and grant aid.
Of this allocation, € 211.5 million was in the form of grants and € 344.6 million in the form of loans. Compared to figures reported in 2006, there has been a € 131.7 million increase in the total allocation, which is the result of an increase of € 142.7 million in loan assistance and a decrease of € 11million in grant aid.
Donor ranking
The three large international financial institutions – the EBRD, EIB and the World Bank, – which primarily provide concessional loans to BiH, feature high in ranking of donor agencies according to the volume of their total allocation in 2007. The other big loan givers to BiH are Germany/GTZ/KfW and Spain/AECID.
The EC and USA/USAID provide the largest amount of grant aid, closely followed by some of BiH’s traditional donors, such as Sweden/SIDA and the Netherlands. Several other bilateral donors feature in the middle ranking, such as Germany/GTZ/KfW, Italy/IC, Switzerland/SDC/SECO, and Norway.
Sectoral ranking
The Infrastructure and the Economic Development and Social Protection sectors received the bulk of ODA in 2007. When combined, these two areas of intervention make up almost 70% of all allocations. It should, however, be noted that a large part of the funding in these sectors are in the form of loans.
The Good Governance and Institutions Building sector – which comprises the Legal and Judicial Reform, Human Rights, Public Administration Reform, and Civil Society sub-sectors – features in third place in terms of total donor allocations in 2007. This sector received almost 9% of all 2007 funding.
In the middle ranking are the Conflict Prevention and Resolution, Peace and Security, Local Governance, and Cross-cutting sectors (Gender, Youth, and Return and Reintegration).
Charts/graphs
Multi-year comparison of grants, loans and total allocation
Ranking of donors with grant-loan split in 2007
Grant/loan contributions of individual donor agencies
Ranking of bilateral donors according to the relative contribution to BiH of each country’s GDP
Sectoral shares of ODA in 2007 – in percentages
Sectoral shares of ODA in 2007 – in million Euros
Comparison of sectoral shares in 2006 and 2007
