PULSAR

The Public Sector Accounting and Reporting Program (PULSAR) Program is a regional and country-level program targeting the Western Balkans and the EU Eastern Partnership countries to support the development of public sector accounting and financial reporting frameworks in line with international standards and good practice. The PULSAR Partners - Austria, Switzerland, and the World Bank - jointly established the objectives and scope of the PULSAR Program. They provide institutional support for its implementation and mobilize the resources needed for its activities. Beneficiary countries also have an opportunity to shape the Program through regional cooperation platforms and input to Communities of Practice.

EAASURE

The development objective of Enhancing Accounting, Auditing, and Sustainability Reporting (EAASURE) Regional Program is to enhance corporate financial reporting practices and support the adoption and roll out of sustainability reporting in the Europe and Central Asia region.

The program supports ongoing reforms in corporate financial and sustainability reporting in several countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Ukraine.

SQARP

The development objective of the Strengthening Quality of Auditing and Reporting Project for Republic of Albania (SQARP) is to strengthen relevant stakeholder’s capacity to improve, apply and enforce corporate financial reporting in line with good international standards and practices in Albania. The Project will provide a necessary underpinning for the continued reform and will contribute to better enforcement of corporate financial reporting in Albania.

REPARIS for SMEs

Road to Europe Program of Accounting Reform and Institutional Strengthening for Small and Medium Enterprises – REPARIS for SMEs – aims to support: (i) further improvement of access of SMEs in the Western Balkans to professional accounting and financial management services, and (ii) alignment of Western Balkans corporate financial reporting frameworks with relevant EU directives and regulations.

CFREP

The Albania Corporate Financial Reporting Enhancement Project (CFREP) was set up to create a transparent policy environment and effective institutional framework for corporate financial reporting in line with best international practices, aligned with the EU acquis communautaire with a view to Albania’s aspiring to EU accession. The project was active from 2010 to 2013.

Capacity Building for Effective Audit Oversight under the IDF Grant Funded by the World Bank

In June 2013, the World Bank, at the request of the Government of Montenegro, extended financial assistance in the form of a grant from the International Development Fund (IDF) to build capacity for effective audit oversight in Montenegro. The purpose of the program was to assist the Government of Montenegro to establish a system for public oversight and quality assurance for the statutory audit function in Montenegro, and build the capacity of the accounting and audit profession to train and maintain the competence of professionals to implement international standards of accounting, auditing and ethics. The project was successfully completed in August 2016.

Project to Enhance Corporate Financial Reporting: Country Strategy and Action Plan

The Project to Enhance Corporate Financial Reporting in the Kyrgyz Republic was a technical assistance project with the objective to help the country authorities and stakeholders to initiate reforms in the area of corporate financial reporting on the basis of the recommendations of the November 2008 Accounting and Auditing Report on Observance of Standards and Codes (A&A ROSC). The Project was active from November 2010 to March 2012.

Support to the Reform of SOEs in the Republic of Moldova

The Diagnostics undertaken as part of the Support to the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises project offered support to the Government of Moldova to implement diagnostics to identify key state-owned enterprise (SOE) sector reforms issues, problems, challenges and opportunities in Moldova. The analysis focused on the issues identified by the OECD Guidelines on Corporate Governance as important to ensure that SOEs operate efficiently, transparently and in accountable manner.
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