The Sustainability Index reports on the strength and overall viability of CSO sectors in each of the twentynine countries in the region, from the Baltics to Central Asia. The Index highlights both advances and setbacks in the development of the civil society sector, and allows for comparisons across countries and subregions over time. The Index is an important and unique tool for local CSOs, governments, donors, academics, and others to understand and measure the sustainability of the CSO sector.

USAID published the first Sustainability Index in 1997, covering eighteen countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. The Index has expanded considerably over the past eighteen years. Since 2003, the Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia Index has covered twenty-nine countries. In 2009, USAID introduced the CSO Sustainability Index for Sub-Saharan Africa, which now includes reports on twenty-five countries. The sixth edition will be published in mid-2015. An edition covering seven countries in the Middle East and North Africa was added in 2011. In addition, the Aga Khan Foundation supports the publication of CSO Sustainability Indexes covering Afghanistan and Pakistan, bringing the total number of countries covered by the Index to sixty-three.

Ther presentation about Armenian part of the Report in Armenian can be downloaded here.