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.

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Kosovo-wide

IOM provides grants for minority businesses under its Return and reintegration initiative, as well as it supports income generation for returnees.

Read more at: https://kosovo.iom.int/eu-return-reintegration-kosovo

Kosovo-wide

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.

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Dragash/Dragaš Štrpce/Shtërpcë Viti / Vitina

UNMIK supported the delivery of vocational trainings for K-Serbs and K-Albanians from Zubin Potok municipality. More than 20 participants took part in trainings aimed at development of different skills - from product design to woodprocessing.

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Zubin Potok

The project aimed to support existing businesses and organizations run by women in order to improve their overall economic performance and outreach and support economic empowerment and societal participation of women beneficiaries. All five businessess received technology/equpment support to increase their production and expand the market.

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https://www.facebook.com/Var%C3%ABse-punim-dore-QPDG-633862057132460/

https://www.facebook.com/medica.gjakova/posts/1236909629811024

Kosovo-wide

With UNMIK support, NGO Women Association Sabor brought together 20 small businesses owned by K-Serbs and K-Albanians (both women and men), in interactive business-to-business meetings to capitalize on opportunities to build their businesses through cooperation. This CBP will also include capacity building trainings in marketing, finance and registration, among other topics.

Read more at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Organization/Sabor-Udruzenje-zena-495566330624407/

Gračanica/Graçanicë Zvečan/Zveçan Zubin Potok Mitrovica/Mitrovicë North Mitrovicë/Mitrovica South Leposavić/Leposaviq Štrpce/Shtërpcë Parteš/Partesh

In the fair, farmers will have the opportunity to promote their products, while citizens have the chance to to buy local bio products.

Read more at:https://gazetametro.net/nis-panairi-i-mjaltit-prodhimeve-bujqesore-dhe-artizanaleve-ne-skenderaj/

Skënderaj/Srbica

More than 40 activities organised during the three first days of the Global Enterpreneurship Week in Kosovo, marked in 180 countries worldwide. Activities are being organised in different cities in Kosovo, aiming at networking enterpreneurs, developing ecosystem in Kosovo, trainings for young enterpreneurs, inclussinveness, sharing success stories, social enterpreneurship, ISO Standards, digital marketing, promoting women enterpreneurship, challenges of enterpreneurs, access to finances and green economy.

Read more at:https://ickosovo.com/images/uploads/files/GEW_Kosovo_2019_Calendar.pdf

Kosovo-wide

The GIZ project “Creating Employment through Export Promotion – CETEP” aims to enable micro, small and medium enterprises in employment relevant sectors to make use of the potentials of international markets. The project organizes its interventions into four fields of action along the needs of the private sector in the sectors such as agriculture, ICT and manufacturing. The fields of action are: business-related information, market-oriented business services, product and process innovations, and export promotion.

Read more at: https://ickosovo.com/innovation-fund?fbclid=IwAR1R2HiXEwlRAJTZeY4ffRoQoQIpLiuHihswGbssAG5HHoyi2gtS96...

Kosovo-wide

The project aims to help advance the trust-building agenda, as well as United Nations human rights priorities by partnering with the Danish Refugee Council to support processes for improving the social inclusion of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian communities in the Mitrovica Region. It seeks to promote the full exercise of social, economic and cultural rights, with a special focus on the wellbeing of women and children. In response to the impact of CoVID-19, DRC delivered food packages to 375 vulnerable Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian families in South Mitrovicë/a who have been particularly affected in their ability to generate income. Distributions also entailed supporting 320 children to stay in school with items that will contribute to relieving their families from a financial burden they could not otherwise bear, as well as supporting nine extremely vulnerable individuals with personal care items.

Read more at: http://drc-kosovo.org/news/2020/5/18/aoyiv2dn17zuzquusygwa4juskcse3

Mitrovicë/Mitrovica South

The original project activities were to address identified weaknesses at municipal level, particularly with four municipal mechanisms supporting the communities and develop action plans to strengthen community support-related issues. Two coordination meetings were organized before physical interactions and movements were restricted due to COVID-19 outbreak. The project activities were modified for the remaining funds to serve as UNMIK support to the municipalities response to COVID-19. UNMIK support to 37 municipalities consisted of 2,159 food and 1,450 hygiene packages distributed from 12 to 16 May 2020. Around 2,764 boxes of personal protective equipment and 265 tablets for educational purposes also formed part of UNMIK's support to local COVID response.

Read more: https://unmik.unmissions.org/

Prishtinë/Priština Pejë/Peć Gjilan/Gnjilane

Project YES, aims to improve the employability of Kosovar youth in the labour market, by adapting and implementing the labour market measures to address the needs of young people, including vulnerable groups (especially minorities, returnees) and meet the needs of employers, and improve the quality of vocational education and training for young people whereas the selected young people in the project regions can have a professional qualification recognized in Germany.

Read more at: https://www.facebook.com/pg/YESforKosovo/about/?ref=page_internal

Kosovo-wide

The project contributes to innovations and credible visible changes in the Food and Natural Ingredients and Tourism sectors respectively. Building upon the objectives, achievements, and lessons learned of Phase I, in this current phase 2017 – 2021 the project will tackle private sector development and job creation with more emphasis on youth, women and minorities.

Read more at: https://ppse-kosovo.org/

Kosovo-wide

Prizren