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bulgaria.usaid.gov Mission Director: Michael Fritz (Office/Name), USAID c/o American Embassy/Sofia Department of State Washington, DC 20521-5740 Tel: 359-2-937-5101 Fax: 359-2-939-5748

Overview

Since 1990, the American people, through USAID, have contributed more than $600 million in economic and technical assistance to support Bulgaria’s transition to a market-based democracy. The USAID program in Bulgaria has evolved from its early, dual focus on humanitarian aid and political party strengthening to a broader development approach designed to help the country ocome the challenges of its transition to democratic governance and a market economy. Together with its partners, USAID has assisted with developing private businesses, improving local democratic governance, supporting rule of law reforms, building new systems and institutions, enhancing human capacity to manage these changes, and addressing the needs of vulnerable populations. Bulgaria’s membership in the European Union, effective January 2007, will end economic assistance provided by USAID under the Support to Eastern European Democracy (SEED) Act in September 2008.

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