projects (apartment building in Korenica and two apartment buildings in Knin) are completed. The other four, although supposed to be finalized by end 2017, remain pending for various administrative and technical challenges. UNHCR will closely monitor their progress until their full completion. Considering the extension of RHP in the region until the end 2020, Croatia submitted additional four project concepts and their approval is pending donor’s decision, expected in January 2018. Brief overview per each pending sub-project: RHP HR03 (Home for Elderly and Infirm Persons in Glina) - despite the fact that the construction of the facility was completed in April 2017 and handed over to Sisak- Moslavina County in July 2017, the Home was still not operational at the end of 2017. The selection procedure was completed in October 2017 and all 74 beneficiaries are awaiting to be accommodated in the Home. UNHCR notes several obstacles that prevented planned opening of the facility by the end of 2017 that are related to:    staffing (to date only eight out of 30 planned staff are employed in the Home), securing funds for basic materials required for daily functioning of the Home, the dispute between Sisak-Moslavina County and the Ministry of Demography, Family, Youth and Social Politics on the final price per beneficiary and, lengthy administrative procedures by the respective centers for social welfare to issue individual decisions on the accommodation in the Home. UNHCR addressed all pending issues directly with the Head of CSORHC on 21 November and got assurances that the Home will become operational latest by February 20187. RHP HR 04 (Purchase of 101 apartments) - To date, the State Real Estate Agency purchased 97 apartments. 85 families (218 persons) received apartments (78 within the areas of special state concern and five in urban areas). 12 apartments still need to be allocated to beneficiaries. Four more apartments need to be purchased. UNHCR has been continuously advocating for speedier and more effective and timely allocations of 12 purchased apartments, which have been pending for more than six months because of lengthy administrative procedures. UNHCR was particularly concerned about the case of seven former refugees from Bosnia and Herzegovina who have been granted right to housing care in Zagreb. Following UNHCR’s interventions, five of them received apartments and two are pending. In all cases, the State Attorney Office has been appealing against the first and second instance decisions in administrative procedures and initiated dispute before the Administrative Court against CSORHC, disputing allocation of apartments. UNHCR intervened with CSORHC in September and November 2017 and still awaits response on their activities to address this issue. 7 The Home was officially opened in May 2018. 7