It will support the development of a pipeline of relevant and mature actions for financing from EU funds and, whenever possible, from other sources of financial assistance. The contract will achieve this by strengthening the capacities of the national institutions, and by efficiently promoting coordination, harmonization and alignment of EU and other financial assistance with Serbia’s policies, strategies, and investment priorities, in order to further advance the country’s own reforms in the context of EU accession. The contract will support Serbia to improve the robustness and credibility of planning and programming of pre-accession and accession assistance, by building skills and competencies and by direct support to programme and action preparation.