The Eurasia Heritage Foundation Research Group (eds. by E. Kozievskaya, E. Yatsenko)

Borisenko A., Senior researcher of the Russian Research Institute for Economics, Politics and Law;E-mail: alx.borisenko@gmail.com

Emelyanov А., PhD in Psychology, analyst at Communication Group “Active-Media”;E-mail: ae2003@inbox.ru

Kozievskaya E., PhD in Psychology, Director for Development of the Eurasia Heritage Foundation;E-mail: elenavk@fundeh.org

Yatsenko E., PhD in Technical Sciences, President of the Eurasia Heritage Foundation;E-mail: elenaby@fundeh.org

The article provides an overview of the most effective practices of business and national institutionsinteraction in the sphere of international development assistance. This overview was prepared withinthe research project “Prospects of the Russian Business Participation in Development Assistance in CISCountries (Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan cases)” conducted by the Eurasia Heritage Foundation in 2009.The paper describes main priorities, development assistance status in different countries and typesof interaction between government, business institutions and NGOs in the leading donor-countries.Business involvement in national and international development assistance programs is assessed byanalyzing statistic data on private sector participation in development assistance.