Twenty one agreements for purchising packages of building material for refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia were awarded today in the Municipality of Secanj under the fourth subproject of the Regional Housing Programme in the Republic of Serbia (RHP).

Funds in the amount of EUR 180,000 for the purchase of 21 packages of building materials were provided from the Donor Fund of the Regional Housing Programme through the Council of Europe Development Bank.

Subproject 4 is worth a total of 18.7 million euros, of which 16.7 million is from the RHP fund, while 2 million euros are a national contribution. It is envisaged to allocate a total of 1,233 housing solutions, 30 prefabricated houses, 261 housing units, 562 building materials packages and 329 village houses in municipalities throughout Serbia.

Beside the President of the Municipality of Secanj, Mr. Predrag Radjenovic as the host of the event, representatives of the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration, the UNHCR, as well as representatives of the Project Implementation Unit in Public Sector (PIU) and beneficiaries were present at the ceremony.

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.