Since 2004, EU pre‐accession funds (CARDS, IPA) to Croatia have been provided through the Decentralized Management System (or DIS) which devolves disbursement to national government institutions. CSO funding is managed by the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) of the Government Office for Cooperation with CSOs. Under Instrument for Pre-Accession (IPA), CSOs are principally catered for by Component 1 (Transitional Assistance and Institution Building), through a recently established Civil Society Facility which provides support in three main areas: capacity‐building, exchange of knowledge and experience with EU institutions, and partnership actions between beneficiary and EU CSOs. There are also sizeable grant allocations available under IPA 2, Cross‐Border Cooperation. As a candidate country, Croatia is now in receipt of additional EU support under IPA components 3, 4 and 5 for Regional Development, Human Resources and Rural Development respectively. CSOs can potentially gain support from these components through their inclusion in broader projects and social partnerships. In the period from 2009 on, CSOs are benefiting from the following EU programmes: PHARE (36 projects worth 2.734.750 EUR in the areas of environmental protection and sustainable development, democracy and human rights and youth); IPA 2008(3 grants schemes for capacity building of CSOs for monitoring, advocacy and policy dialogue in several fields in total amount of 3.33 million EUR); IPA 2009 (grants for social policy (service delivery policies) and human rights); IPA 2 CBC (small grants to CSOs and municipalities for a range of socio‐economic two‐country partnership projects in amount of 15.9 million EUR in 2009 and 16.2 million EUR in 2010). CSOs are also eligible to the following Community Programmes: Culture, Progress, Lifelong Learning Programme, Youth in Action and 7th Framework programme on Research, Europe for Citizens.
Other foreign donors are represented in very small percentage of funding in last several years. In last decade majority of them gradually withdraw their funding from Croatia. Currently small funds from World Bank, CNF-CEE, few embassies and regional BTD fund (as well as hardly reachable global funds as UNDEF) are available for CSOs in Croatia.