IPA – Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance

IPA encourages the efforts of beneficiary countries to strengthen democratic institutions and the rule of law, reform state administration, reform the economy, respect human and minority rights, promote gender equality, strengthen civil society, improve regional cooperation, achieve sustainable development and reduce poverty.

Since the beginning of the implementation of IPA support, which is planned and implemented at the seven-year level, projects supported by IPA funds have been implemented or will be implemented in Montenegro through the financial perspectives of IPA 2007-20013 (IPA I), IPA 2014-2020 (IPA II) and IPA 2021-2021 (IPA III). In addition to individual projects that are implemented through the aforementioned seven-year financial perspectives within national programs, IPA also includes support provided through regional programs and instruments, such as the Multi-Beneficiary IPA program, the Western Balkans Investment Framework and Union Programmes, as well as through cross-border programmes and transnational cooperation.