CREDI is part of the consortium that was selected within the Public call of the SMART Balkans Project to implement the regional project titled “The perfect storm: Food and energy insecurities threaten the economies of the Western Balkan”. The consortium consists of the members of the WEBEcon network: FinanceThink (North Macedonia), Center for Advanced Economic Studies (Serbia), GAP Institute (Kosovo), CREDI (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Albanian Center for Competitiveness and International Trade (Albania) and Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses (Montenegro).
The main goal of the project is to generate evidence and foster a policy dialogue for the food and energy insecurities in the Western Balkan economies pertinent to four key fronts: household livelihoods, firms’ competitiveness, fiscal space and regional integration. The specific objectives include:
- To employ and empower the WEBEcon network for the national and regional policymaking processes on food- and energy-related policies, by generating evidence on the effects of the crisis on the WB economies and the regional integration,
- To enhance the policy dialogue and cooperation on energy and food supply security, by creating space for wide stakeholders’ consultations and networking at the regional level,
- To increase public awareness of the importance, consequences of and solutions to the food and energy crisis, including through regional approaches.
Within the project, a kick off meeting was organized on 13th March 2023, where partners agreed on the activities and timeline for the next period.
More about the WEBEcon can be found here.