[...] Fiscal Decentralization Initiative 2003 - Jointly funded by USAID and the OECD, UNDP, Council of Europe, Soros Local Government Initiative, Danish Ministry of Interior, and Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Fiscal Decentralization Initiative (FDI) supports the development of task forces in CEE countries and implemented a wide range of capacity-building and policy-development programs in CEE and SEE to educate governments, think tanks, and academic leaders on the major issues of fiscal decentralization. In FY 2003, FDI supported a research program measuring the progress of decentralization in CEE and the development of indicators for assessment of decentralization. Surveys and...