The OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), established by the OPEC Member Countries in January 1976 is also based in Vienna. The OPEC Fund under it's current Director-General Abdulhamid Alkhalifa, which is financed through voluntary contributions derived from the member countries’ oil revenues. It seeks to contribute to the development of Third World countries by offering loans and grants to non-OPEC developing countries and to international development agencies.
Whenever political tensions are at risk of escalating into military conflict in Europe, the Caucasus or Central Asia, there is high demand for the Vienna-based Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). The OSCE primarily contributes to conflict prevention and negotiates confidence-building measures between its 57 participating States, ranging from the USA to Tajikistan. Currently, the OSCE operates 16 so-called field missions in (South) Eastern Europe and in Central Asia, where the organisation provides support in the field of democracy, rule of law and human rights to the respective host countries through concrete project work. The OSCE’s work is based on a comprehensive approach to security. Under this concept, security is not only understood as enhanced political and military cooperation among states, but also encompasses the inclusion of economic issues, environmental protection and human rights.
The global successor to COCOM is the Secretariat of the Wassenaar Arrangement on export controls for conventional arms and dual-use goods and technologies, which started operating in Vienna in 1997.
The European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia was established in the same year by a EU Council regulation and took up office in Vienna in 1998. Following the Council Regulation Nr 168/2007, it was transformed into the European Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA). Having taken office on 16 December 2015, Michael O’Flaherty from Ireland is now Director of the FRA (European Union Agency of Fundamental Rights). It has been mandated with providing the European Union and its Member States with objective and comparable information on racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic phenomena discernible at the European level. The Racism and Xenophobia European Network (RAXEN) was established to support the FRA in the tasks generally related to the collection and provision of data.
By locating the Immediate Central Contact for The Hague Code of Conduct (HCoC) against the Proliferation of Ballistic Missiles at the Federal Ministry for Europen and International Affairs in 2002, a further step was taken towards strengthening Vienna’s position as the seat and headquarters of international organisations. In the same year, the European Space Agency (ESA) decided to base the newly founded European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna.
The Secretariat of the Energy Community has been based in Vienna since 2006. Its Contracting Parties are the European Union on the one hand and the eight Contracting States Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldavia, Montenegro, Serbia and Ukraine on the other. The main goal pursued by the Energy Community is expanding the EU Single Energy Market to include South-Eastern Europe.
Since 2011 Vienna also hosts three offices of the World-Bank Group (International Bank for Reconstruction and Developement– IBRD, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency – MIGA, International Finance Corporation– IFC). Furthermore, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) which fosters the international cooperation in the realm of migration established a regional office in Vienna in the same year. The liaison office has a special focus on Eastern and Southeastern Europe as well as Central Asia.
In 2019 the International Monetary Fund openend the Regional Resident Representative Office for the Western Balkans in Vienna.
The International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) was established in 1993 upon initiative of Austria and Switzerland. The headquarters of this International Organization is located in Vienna. ICMPD has become an important partner for its now 18 Member States and for the EU in the development of innovative and sustainable migration concepts and projects, in particular when it comes to cooperation with Third Countries in the Eastern or Southern neighbourhood of the EU.