Whether or not you will be eligible for financial assistance under the Returning Experts Programme primarily depends on the significance of your new position in terms of development policy. A job is classified as potentially suitable for support when it lies in a priority area of bilateral development cooperation. Positions that contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals or the ‘big five’ (basic education, combating HIV/AIDS, renewable energy, energy efficiency, tropical forest protection), or that are in a sector that is particularly affected by brain drain in a given country may also qualify for assistance. If you choose to accept a position outside these categories that is nevertheless particularly important in terms of development policy, we will be glad to review the possibility of support. If this applies to you, please contact us.

Current priority areas in priority countries are as follows:

Afghanistan

• Economic reform and development of the market system
• Urban water supply
• Energy
• Basic education

Egypt

• Economic reform and development of the market economy, vocational training
• water
• Environment, especially waste management

Ethiopia

• Sustainable use of natural resources for food security
• Capacity-building in the governmental and administrative system
• Economic promotion

Bolivia

• Administrative reform, judicial reform and civil society
• Sustainable agriculture
• Water and sanitation

Bosnia

• Democracy / civil society
• Water supply and sanitation
• Sustainable economic development
• Energy

Brazil

• Environmental protection and natural resource management
• Integrated regional development in disadvantaged areas

Chile

• Environmental protection and conservation of natural resources
• Modernisation of the state
• Economic reform
• Democracy, civil society and public administration
• Energy

China

• Training
• Scientific and academic cooperation
• Energy/environment
• Development of rule of law/NGOs
• Financial systems development
• Economic consulting (applying international standards)
• Health management

Georgia

• Economic reform
• Democracy, civil society and public administration
• Energy

Ghana

• Economic reform and development of the market system
• Agriculture
• Good governance

India

• Economic reform
• Health
• Energy
• Environmental policy, protection and sustainable use of natural resources

Indonesia

• Training
• Scientific and academic cooperation
• Decentralisation/support in implementing regional development plans
• Aceh (transition from post-disaster reconstruction to sustainable structural development)
• Transport
• Health
• Environment

Jordan

• Water and sanitation
• Environment (including forestry)
• Health
• Decentralisation

Cameroon

• Environment (including forestry)
• Health
• Decentralization

Colombia

• Economic reform and development of the market economy, vocational training
• Water
• Environment, particularly waste management

Morocco

• Training
• Energy/environment
• Civil society/NGOs
• Promotion of the private sector/economic upgrading

Mongolia

• Economic reform and development of the market economy
• Environmental policy, conservation of natural resources and renewable energy
• Energy efficiency

Palestinian Territories

• Water
• Economic reform
• Democracy, civil society and public administration

Pakistan

• Energy (renewable energies and energy efficiency)
• Primary health system, family planning, HIV/AIDS
• Basic education

Peru

• Democracy, civil society and public administration
• Drinking water supply and sanitation
• Sustainable rural development, conservation and sustainable management of natural resources

Syria

• Water and sanitation

Tunesia

• Economic reform and development of the market economy
• Environmental protection and sanitation

Ukraine

• Energy
• Sustainable economic development
• Health

Vietnam

• Economic reform
• Health
• Environment