At a meeting held on 23 October 2002 at the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia, the United States International Development Agency (USAID), together with Booz Allen Hamilton and Onthe FRONTIER, made public the start of the Serbia Competitiveness and Economic Efficiency (SCEE) Project. This is a one-year project, financed by USAID, with the aim of improving competitiveness in Serbia and identifying local potentials for competitivity in the regional and global economy.

The meeting was attended by Dillon Coleman, project director, Donald Presly, officer in charge of SCEE implementation at Booz Allen Hamilton, Michael Fairbanks, executive director of Onthe FRONTIER, Christopher Williams, project manager, as well as Deputies Vlatko Sekulovic, deputy chairman of the Committee on Development and Foreign Economic Relations, Bojan Pajtic, chairman of the Legislative Committee, and Dragisa Marinkovic, chairman of the Privatisation Committee.