The main foreign donors are: USAID, Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), the European Commission, German Embassy, British Embassy, USA Embassy (Democracy Commission small grants scheme) Canadian Embassy (Canada Fund), Dutch Embassy (Matra/KAP programme). USAID has been a long‐standing supporter of local CSOs through its Montenegro Advocacy Programme, primarily through small grants for advocacy, policy dialogue and watchdog activities, but this is to end early 2010.
Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) supports a selected number of CSOs working in the field of democracy strengthening, human rights, minority right and gender balance, through its national NGO partners the Olof Palme Centre, Kvinna Till Kvinna and the Swedish Helsinki Committee. Foreign private foundations include: Foundation Open Society Institute ‐ Representative Office Montenegro (FOSI ROM) with several programmes such as Education Reform Programme (2008 budget 159,000 EUR); European Programme (2008 budget 219,000 EUR); Law Programme (2008 budget 137,500 EUR); Public Administration and Local Government Programme (2008 budget 110,000 EUR); Roma Programme (2008 budget 51,400 EUR); Women’s Programme (2008 budget 38,500 EUR); Capacity Development Programme (2008 budget 168,000 USD); East East Regional Programme (2008 budget 72,000 EUR); Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and German political foundations: Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Conrad Adenauer Foundation and Heinrich Boll Foundation.
EU support for civil society is primarily provided through the Instrument for Pre-Accession Component I and II. IPA 2007 supported a grant assistance of up to 1 million EUR to support policy dialogue between local and EU CSOs and local authorities in the fields of social welfare, special education, and health prevention; CSO networking and coalitions in order to help develop a rights‐based approach to policy implementation, the implementation of the memorandum on cooperation between CSOs and governmental bodies and cultural initiatives that will facilitate inter‐cultural dialogue and cooperation between Montenegrin and EU stakeholders. IPA 2009 will give further support to civil society worth around 2.2 million EUR. The IPA II CBC includes small grants to CSOs and municipalities for a range of socio‐economic two‐country partnership projects worth EUR 4.5 million. In addition, EIDHR support is launched on a bi‐annual grant scheme in total worth EUR 800,000 in support of small‐scale human rights and democratization activities by grassroots organizations.