Dancing with Donors

Dancing with Donors is a practical reminder and complementary resource for those working in policy and strategy development, fundraising, and project management. Gordana Miljevic, Education Support Program senior program manager, prepared this booklet with support from OSEP-SEE.

Miljevic worked as the Head of the Department of the International Coordination of the Ministry of Education and Support in the Republic of Serbia between 2001 and 2004. Having found scarce resources on the topic, she has undertaken the task to write this booklet on the coordination of international donor support. The author discusses donor types, forms of support, ways of approaching donors, managing relationship with them, need and mechanisms for the donor coordination, and the potential obstacles in the relationship between donors and recipients. She also gives practical tips based on her experience and observations. Dancing with Donors focuses on the South Eastern European context but can be useful for the government sector, agencies, and those working with foreign assistance for their reform agendas and projects in other parts of the world.