Sigma Activities: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sigma is supporting the reform efforts of Bosnia and Herzegovina in priority areas through its work on the following projects: 

Financial Control and External Audit

• Support to the Development of an Overall PIFC Strategy (April 2007 - June 2008)
• Peer Review of the Supreme Audit Institutions (July 2004 – August 2006) 

Legal Framework, Civil Service and Justice

• Exploring Civil Service Harmonisation (March - December 2008)
• Support to Public Administration Reform (July 2006 - March 2007)
• Study on Federal Systems (August - December 2005)
• Civil Service Training Assistance (May - December 2004)
• State Level and RS Civil Service Screening (July 2002 – November 2004)

Policy-making and Co-ordination Capacities

• Support to Public Administration Reform - continued (March - December 2007)
• Translation of the Sigma Paper on Federal Systems (February - May 2006)
• State Level Centre of Government Review (June 2002 – November 2004) 

Public Procurement

• Peer Review of the Concessions System (April - December 2008)
• Bridging and Complementary Public Procurement Support (June 2007 - June 2008)
• Preparation of TOR for Public Procurement CARDS Project (June 2002 – January 2003)

Trade Policy

• Assistance to the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations (July 2002 – November 2003)

Further sources of information on Bosnia & Herzegovina, such as its Public Management Profile (Sigma, 2004), its geography, people, system of government, can be found by consulting the following sites:

• European Commission's country profile: BiH
• EC Delegation to BiH
• Relations of the EU with this country
• Presidency of the European Union
• Official websites in BiH

You may also wish to visit the European Union website