SOURCES OF FUNDING EASTERN EUROPEAN PROJECTS

This project was a comprehensive study performed by WMA for two separate clients. WMA has continued to maintain contact with all of the involved agencies and monitored changes to the various programs and establishment of new programs.

Since 1989, the United States has contributed over $2 billion in grants and other forms of assistance to Central and Eastern Europe. Most of this assistance has been in the form of grants, and the majority of the aid has gone to Poland and Hungary. Today the assistance program also includes Czech and Slovak Republics, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia (parts), Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and most of the countries in the former USSR.

The purpose of this study was three-fold. First, the purpose was to exhaustively identify, describe, and obtain detailed information on all U.S. or multinational (with U.S. involvement) programs that had been established to provide support for the countries in the Central and Eastern European Region. Second, the purpose was to analyze those programs to determine which ones were designed to provide funding support for U.S. companies working in the region and, third, to identify those programs, out of dozens offered, that may be supportive, in some fashion, of the Polish objectives for modernization of its ATC and Airport Systems.