The program goal is to promote regional cooperation among journalists that results in more accurate and objective analysis of political, social, and economic developments in the Balkan region. The grantee, the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, is the regional coordination center for a network that includes six other media organizations across the Balkans. The grantee and other network members work together to regularly analyze key transition issues for the public and policymakers, publish weekly reports, and organize training events and public debates. During the past two years, the grantee published over 110 issues of Balkan Insight with more than 700 articles and 14 in-depth investigative reports on important regional issues, and it trained local journalists and provided fellowships to 30 young journalists from the region. The grantee is based in Sarajevo, and the network includes member organizations in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, and Serbia.

The overall project goal is to assist associations of families of missing persons from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia to become more effective organizations and positive forces for change, particularly with respect to issues of dealing with the past in the Western Balkans. To this end, the International Commission on Missing Persons supports the work and development of associations of families of missing persons through workshops and regional conferences, tailored consultancy, and financial support for projects. During the previous grant period, with Mott support the grantee organized regional intergroup workshops for associations from different ethnic/national groups, financially supported specific projects related to dealing with the past, and strengthened national and regional coordination structures among associations. The commission is a joint initiative of various governments, led by the United States, to identify persons missing as a result of armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. It is based in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The program goal is to build a democratic culture based on human rights and the rule of law in Croatia by stimulating Croatian society to deal with the legacy of war crimes and human rights abuses in the region. To this end, Documenta will research and gather documentation about the conflicts during the 1990s, facilitate public discussion and debate, monitor war crimes trials in Croatia and the region, and work with other groups across the region to establish a regional victims' commission. During the past two years, Documenta increased its technical capacity for maintaining data and documentation, gathered oral histories about events in specific regions of Croatia, organized debates and conferences throughout Croatia on dealing with the past, issued reports on war crimes trials, and played a leadership role in establishing a Balkan-wide coalition to support a regional victims' commission. Based in Zagreb, Documenta works with similar organizations in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.