In the past decade, the East-Central European countries were provided significant external capacity building assistance in order to help their emergence as donors of
foreign aid. This paper aims to map these capacity development programs and identify
where they have helped and what challenges remain for the new donors. The main conclusion is that while capacity building has been instrumental in building
organizational structures, working procedures and training staff, deeper underlying
problems such as low levels of financing, lacking political will, the need for visibility
and low staff numbers continue to hinder the new international development policies
