Kosovo Trust Building

1. At the central level help from international institutions and organizations is needed for financing engagement of more interpreters. Also, measures at the disposal of the Office of the Language Commissioner must be increased and utilized. Furthermore, (to overcome the poor quality of translations) a reorganization of the documents’ translation process is required and all documents should be translated at one office by qualified and skilled interpreters/translators. Proof Reading Officers should check all documents prior to its release to the Parliament.

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2. Institutions should be encouraged to meet minimum prescribed standards for public participation. They are to improve mechanisms for transparency by engaging NGOs in public debates where all issues will be discussed, and citizens will be active participants. That way the citizens will be involved in reaching conclusions and bringing decisions.

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3. All institutions must keep their web pages updated.

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4. All local institutions have to closely cooperate with the Official Gazette so it could be updated regularly.

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5. All institutions that have not delegated clerks to the office for gender equality have to do it.

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6. Training of the staff to be financed by the international community.

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7. Municipalities should not delegate only one person to deal with the gender equality issues, but offices with several staff should be created.

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8. International community to finance workshops and projects aimed at increasing gender awareness.

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9. Municipalities to address sexual harassment at the workplace through workshops, info sessions, thus increasing security and decreasing discrimination of women in the workplace.

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10. The Law on Gender Equality to be strictly implemented.

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11. Encourage cooperation of women in: media, NGO and politics.

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12. Roster of licensed, qualified interpreters should be created. Additional testing and verification of diplomas should be introduced.

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13. It is necessary to increase awareness among politicians so women can have more executive power.

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14. Political parties should allocate more funding resources for women during political campaign.

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15. Municipal Assembly Caucus groups have to be more functional.

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16. Culture projects, such as documentaries, enable rising awareness among people and are the best way to promote gender equality and women’s rights.

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17. Brain-gain, young people that graduated abroad should be encouraged to return by different programs, they should be offered positions without conditioning them to become party members.

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18. A list of employment positions that are in deficit should be created and young people encouraged to pursue their education in that direction.

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19. Encouraging volunteerism and paid internships.

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20. Monitoring mechanism has to be established to follow up on development of all recommendations reached at this Forum.

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21. The Council for Cooperation between the Government and the civil society is one of the mechanisms for addressing the recommendations from this Forum.

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22. At the local level more funds are needed so additional interpreters could be employed, or the translating services could be outsourced.

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23. Recommendations published in the 2017 Report of the Ombudsperson for the Office of the Language Commissioner must be implemented.

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24. Public servants speaking two languages should be paid more. Scholarships for studying language of other communities should be introduced.

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25. Public University should introduce Serbian Language Studies Department.

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26. Administrative Instruction (AI) on the Law on Civil Registration has to be amended or rewritten providing clear instructions for implementing the law and enabling citizens to get identification documents at municipal registry offices. It should provide documents issued in Serbian system to be recognized by Kosovo institutions, so Kosovo documents could be issued.

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27. Northern municipalities still miss the civil registry books that have been sent from Serbia to the central level. MLGA to support this process.

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28. Technical capacities in municipalities have to be improved through projects of international organizations by providing better technical conditions and education of staff.

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