The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network was created from the Balkans programme of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting.

The original IWPR Balkan team was mandated to localise the project and make it sustainable, in the light of changing realities in the region. The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network is now a wholly independent regional partner of IWPR.

Supported by a regional hub based in Sarajevo, BIRN has members in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro, Romania and Bulgaria.

Balkan Insight www.balkaninsight.com is BIRN's main publication fetauring cross-regional reporting of the key issues related to the regions development and progress in achieving European political, social and economic standards.

Birn's complete output as well as further information about the project is available at www.birn.eu.com