Past projects and initiatives

Under the auspices of the Grant Contract “TA to Connectivity in the Western Balkans, the Secretariat was defined as one of the implementing organisations of the ‘WB6’ initiative. The overall objective of the 24 months technical assistance project, CONNECTA, was to assist the Western Balkan governments to achieve their goal of a regional energy market. In order to monitor and report abou the progress achived, the project resulted in Tracker publications.

With the support of the Secretariat, the World Bank completed the “Sector Study on Biomass-based heating in the Western Balkans” in October 2017. Financed by the Western Balkans Investments Framework (WBIF), it aimed to help Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo*, Montenegro, Serbia, and North Macedonia to identify viable investment options and policy measures to increase the use of biomass for heating in a sustainable manner. The project also resulted in diverse information materials are available in seven languages, grouped in four categories.