A wealth of new reports and interviews on Budget Support in practice can be found on the website www.gersterconsulting.ch. The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), Switzerland, asked Gerster Consulting to take a closer and practical look at budget support from various points of view. On that background a series of field reports and interviews were written to cover experiences made in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, Mozambique, Nicaragua and Tanzania. They aim at illuminating chances and risks, opportunities and limitations of budget support in a practical manner with a focus on Switzerland’s experiences. They reflect the author’s personal opinion. The essays can be downloaded in three languages: English, français, deutsch.