In the Municipality of Beocin, six agreements were signed today for the purchase of village houses intended for refugee families from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia under the seventh subproject of the Regional Housing Programme in the Republic of Serbia (RHP).

Funds in the amount of EUR 66,000 for the purchase of six village housese are provided from the Donor Fund of the Regional Housing Programme through the Council of Europe Development Bank. Subproject 7 RHP is worth a total of 9.2 million euros.

Beside the Mayor of Beocin Municipality, Mr. Mitar Milinkovic as the host of the event, representatives of the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration and the Project Implementation Unit in Public Sector (PIU) as well as the beneficiaries were also present.

The Regional Housing Programme (RHP) was set up to provide durable housing solutions to vulnerable refugees and displaced persons following the 1991-1995 conflicts on the territory of former Yugoslavia. The RHP is implemented by Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia and mostly financed by the international donor community. The main donor is the European Union. The other donors are the United States of America, Germany, Norway, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Turkey, Luxembourg, Spain, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and the Slovak Republic.