Armenia, Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, North Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine, Montenegro

RECONOMY - Revitalize, Reconnect, Reshape

RECONOMY is an inclusive and green economic development program of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), implemented by HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation in the Eastern Partnership and the Western Balkan countries.

Project Name

RECONOMY
Project Phase

2023 to 2026
Funding

This project is a mandate of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)
Thematic focus

Education and Vocational Skills
Gender & Social Equity
Partnership & Capacity Development
Youth

The name of the program, RECONOMY, stands for ‘starting afresh’, revitalizing the transitioning economies in the two regions.

The core of RECONOMY is using current knowledge and practices and encouraging learning and sharing between countries. The program accomplishes this by involving a variety of stakeholders, including public institutions, nonprofits, academia, and businesses. While doing so, the program focuses on common issues that countries of both regions face as well as shared actors that may step up and support systemic improvements.

Since RECONOMY acknowledges that people live in countries, not regions, the program looks at local-regional processes and relationships. Without a place-sensitive frame of view, development efforts that ignore these facts frequently fall short.

RECONOMY is implemented in the Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine) and the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia).

Main Goal

To enable women and youth, including the most disadvantaged and excluded, to benefit from economic opportunities by increasing their income and taking up decent and green jobs, inclusively and sustainably.