A group of female MA members from South Mitrovica together with counterparts from Pristina, Gjilan/Gnjilan and Ferizaj/Urosevac MAs attended a one-day workshop on “Community-wide Advocacy for Increasing Women Access to Employment” in Pristina. The workshop aimed at identifying specific socio-political barriers faced by Kosovo women related to access to employment opportunities. A draft community-based advocacy and action plan to address different types of discrimination faced by women in the labor market is one of the instant outcomes. Democracy for Development Institute (D4D), one of the organizers, will provide mentoring and coaching sessions throughout the year to implement the action plan. The Norwegian Embassy in Pristina sponsored the event.

Read more at: https://d4d-ks.org/en/activities/launch-increasing-womens-access-employment-project/

Prishtinë/Priština Mitrovicë/Mitrovica South Gjilan/Gnjilane Ferizaj/Uroševac

#GENDER EQUALITY #D4D #NorwegianEmbassy

The ALMP2 project builds on long-standing UNDP achievements in supporting Kosovo citizens, with particular focus on vulnerable young men and women, and readmitted persons, to find a job or establish a new venture through supporting Kosovo institutions in designing strategic, evidence-based policies and programmes, and providing on-the-job training, wage subsidy, as well as grants and consultancy to foster self-employment opportunities.

Read more at: https://bit.ly/1QKDrct

Kosovo-wide

#YOUTH #UNDP #HUMAN RIGHTS

The Integrated Territorial Development 2 project builds on the successes of the ADC-UNDP “Local-level Response for Employment Generation and Integrated Territorial Development (InTerDev)” project that has been implemented in southern Kosovo’s municipalities of Dragash/Dragaš and Shtërpcë/Štrpce since 2014. This project has proven to address some of the paramount challenges citizens of not only the partner areas, but of Kosovo in general, face: high rate and long spells of unemployment, lack of decent income generation, poor public services, as well as socioeconomic exclusion of women, youth, and other vulnerable groups.

Read more at: https://bit.ly/2sinK67

Dragash/Dragaš Štrpce/Shtërpcë Viti / Vitina

#UNDP #HUMAN RIGHTS

Series of meetings with public administration directors and members of committees for communities were held to advocate for proportional employment and design a model to follow for minority communities’ recruitment and inclusion in local administration; create an action plan for addressing the identified proportional employment challenges; and carry out awareness raising campaigns through the media and other communication channels frequently used by non-majority communities to bridge the information gap on government provision and available opportunities for proportional employment.

Read more at: https://www.ngolens.org/en/projects/advocacy-for-proportional-employment-presentation/

Kosovo-wide

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For instance in the Kosovo Police, number of women recruits has declined from initial 16% to 11.49%, therefore the goal of this project will also be focused in increasing the interest of young women to join Kosovo Police, Security Force (military), Custom Service and Correctional Service.

Read more at: https://www.eulex-kosovo.eu/?page=2,26,398

Kosovo-wide

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Project main objective is to support 60 illiterate womens from different ethnicity to access into the labour market both individually and as association.

Read more at: http://www.k-w4w.org/

Kosovo-wide

#GENDER EQUALITY #NorwegianEmbassy #KosovaWomenForWomen #HUMAN RIGHTS

The Overall objective of the project is to increase employability and sustainable employment prospects for disadvantaged groups, particularity youth and women in Kosovo.

Read more at: https://mpms.rks-gov.net/eu4k/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Nwesletter-January-2020.pdf

Kosovo-wide

#GENDER EQUALITY #MinistryOfLabourAndSocialWelfare #YOUTH #EU

The aim of this call, is to contribute in supporting job creation, for youngsters and women age 18-30 years old, through small grants scheme in the municipality of Prishtina, Gjakova and Ferizaj.

Read more at: https://epic-eu.org/2019/11/21/open-call/

Prishtinë/Priština Gjakovë/Ðakovica Ferizaj/Uroševac

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Over the last years, Caritas Kosova successfully conducted several projects linked to self-employment and job creation, with support to start-ups and existing businesses in several fields, thanks to the provision of training and tailor made grants.

Read more at: http://www.caritaskosova.org/women-in-business/

Kosovo-wide

#GENDER EQUALITY #MinistryOfLabourAndSocialWelfare #CaritasKosova #EU