The OECD's regional approach in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia aims to address a number of common issues relevant for all countries in these regions still grappling at various degrees of intensity with the transition from centrally planned to market economies.

For many of these countries the transition process is not yet complete and they continue to struggle to implement macroeconomic stabilisation and basic institutional and policy reforms.

The OECD aims to support institution building and structural reform by promoting OECD best practices and facilitating information sharing. Policy dialogue focuses on topics such as anti-corruption, pension reform, financial sector reform, corporate governance and tax policy. The OECD also aims to encourage co-operation on specific issues within the sub-regions (in particular Central Asia and the Caucasus) for both economic and political reasons.

The following programmes and institutions participate in the OECD's regional activities in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia:

• The Eurasia Competitiveness Programme
• The Task Force for the Implementation of the Environmental Action Plan for Central and Eastern Europe.
• The Anti-Corruption Network for Transition Economies.
• The Eurasian Corporate Governance Round Table.
• The OECD Regional Centre for Competition in Budapest/Hungary.
• The SIGMA programme, a joint initiative of the OECD and the European Union, principally financed by the EU.
• The OECD Multilateral Tax Centres in: Ankara, Budapest and OECD Multilateral Tax Centre in Vienna.
• The Black Sea Central Asian Economic Outlook