Forty three agreements were signed today in the Municipality of Becej for the purchase of building material for refugee families from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, under the fifth subproject of the Regional Housing Programme (RHP).

Funds in the amount of 270 thousand euros for the purchase of 43 packages of building material were provided from the RHP Donor Fund through the Council of Europe Development Bank. Subproject 5 RHP is worth a total of 52 million euros, out of which 38.8 is donated from the RHP Fund, and 13.2 euros from the national contribution.

Beside the President of the Municipality of Becej, Dragan Tosic, as a host of the event, the Assistant Commissioner for Refugees and Migration of the Republic of Serbia, Ivan Gerginov, Director of the Provincial Fund for Assistance to Refugees, Displaced and Expelled Persons, Dusko Cutilo, representatives of the United States Embassy, the OSCE, the UNHCR, as well as representatives of the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) attended the ceremony and awarder the agreements. 

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.