Kosovo Trust Building

1. To strengthen partnership between youth-led initiatives and media actors in order to amplify the positive role of youth in building sustainable peace in their communities through building inter-ethnic trust, promotion of responsible citizenship and awareness-raising on diverse human-rights related issues.

16 Initiatives

Media and communication

2. To undertake efforts to provide media coverage and space for youth-led activities at the key public broadcaster and other media in order to raise the attention of local and central institutions to the problems that Kosovo youth face on a daily basis (education-related issues, bullying in schools, prevention of peer-to-peer violence, employment opportunities and socio-economic empowerment, air pollution, etc.) and empower youth by giving them a stronger voice in their communities

5 Initiatives

Media and communication

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

8 Initiatives

Good governance and access to services

4. Improve cooperation between municipalities and media with no discrimination on any grounds.

2 Initiatives

Media and communication

5. To provide incentives for involvement of young people in awareness raising campaigns offline and online on societal issues, including as key actors in disseminating information.

23 Initiatives

Media and communication

6. To strengthen cooperation between the Ombudsperson, media and civil society in order to develop and institutionalize implementation of the existing legal frameworks on access to official documentation.

0 Initiatives

Media and communication

7. To strengthen cooperation between the local and central media.

2 Initiatives

Media and communication

8. Municipalities of Kosovo could pay the interest for loans taken by local farmers.

0 Initiatives

Economic empowerment and environment

9. Establish link between expertise and the grassroots, specifically youth, to prevent need to import skills: database, skill pool, formalized mentoring by experts. Responsible actor/s - Ministry for Culture Youth and Sport, Ministry of Labor and municipalities

13 Initiatives

Economic empowerment and environment

10. Religious communities should jointly advocate against domestic violence and in promotion of women rights, thus also targeting patriarchal norms in the society;

2 Initiatives

Inter-religious trust-building

11. Traditional practice is prevailing over the Law on inheritance / Women are disadvantaged in the process of property inheritance / Religious leaders should play a role in promoting women rights;

1 Initiative

Inter-religious trust-building

12. Religious communities should effectively work on sustainable programs that counter violent extremism and nationalist political rhetoric as well as different kinds of segregation;

1 Initiative

Inter-religious trust-building

13. Encourage government to adopt Law on Restitution and Law on Religious Freedom

0 Initiatives

Inter-religious trust-building

14. Special measures should be taken to ensure meaningful access to legal aid for women, children, IDPs and groups with special needs.

14 Initiatives

Access to justice

15. Raise the public awareness about the judicial system (and how to better avail of the integrated system i.e. how is the court structured, what citizens expect from the integration of judiciary and what are the functions, etc.)

19 Initiatives

Access to justice

16. Enhance implementation of Anti-Discrimination Law, particularly extra-judicial mechanisms.

1 Initiative

Access to justice

17. Encouraging volunteerism and paid internships.

36 Initiatives

Good governance and access to services

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

0 Initiatives

Good governance and access to services

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

1 Initiative

Good governance and access to services

20. Provide support – mentoring, grants and networking for micro, small and medium enterprises of women entrepreneurs to expand their businesses. Activity: to stimulate through funding ethnically mixed employment. Also to develop a strategy for increasing the number of small and medium enterprises.

14 Initiatives

Economic empowerment and environment

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

0 Initiatives

Good governance and access to services

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

0 Initiatives

Good governance and access to services

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

19 Initiatives

Good governance and access to services

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

5 Initiatives

Good governance and access to services

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

18 Initiatives

Good governance and access to services

26. 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.

38 Initiatives

Good governance and access to services

27. To improve the quality and regular updates of information provided on the web pages of municipalities in all official languages, as well as the prompt response to requests.

3 Initiatives

Media and communication

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

0 Initiatives

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Progress status

29. Increase efforts of informal education initiatives in challenging existing narratives through innovative and creative approaches, such as digital and state-of-the-art technologies in conveying positive narratives;

73 Initiatives

Education

30. Conduct needs assessments/evaluations more often to understand the gap between the needs of the labor market and current educational outputs and create feedback mechanisms with the private and public sectors

11 Initiatives

Education

31. To encourage the public broadcaster to continue having qualitative programs in the languages of the communities, thus increasing the access to information and exchanges between the communities and regional public broadcasters.

2 Initiatives

Media and communication

32. Donors should consider media as a priority area, thus enabling joint coverage of issues of mutual concern.

13 Initiatives

Media and communication

33. To increase collaboration between Albanian and Serbian-language media; For example, to have cross-training or “exchange” programs for journalists, whereby one or more journalists from one Albanian-language media outlet would work for a while with a Serbian-language outlet and vice versa.

2 Initiatives

Media and communication

34. All media in Kosovo should have joint efforts to increase the presence of non-political topics of mutual concern, such as artistic and cultural events and environmental issues in public media in all official languages, while simultaneously insisting upon professional (objective, impartial and unbiased) reporting.

7 Initiatives

Media and communication

35. To avoid sexist and homophobic language on media.

1 Initiative

Media and communication

36. To develop incentives for increase in qualitative multi-ethnic reporting.

4 Initiatives

Media and communication

37. Integrate elective courses for learning regional languages into elementary/secondary school curricula

2 Initiatives

Education

38. Reinstate Faculty of Languages in North Mitrovica/Mitrovicë and Pristina a separate department for Albanian/Serbian language and culture

0 Initiatives

Education

39. Ensure that education reform addresses discriminatory content aimed at other societal groups based on their ethnicity, religion, gender, race, sexual orientation, disability, etc. and devise an oversight mechanism

6 Initiatives

Education

40. To present women as leaders and role models and avoid portrayals that reinforce discriminatory and patriarchal attitudes and social norms about the role of women (especially before and after elections).

3 Initiatives

Media and communication

41. To encourage the Ministry of Education and all relevant institutions in Kosovo to provide opportunities to Kosovo residents (in particular journalists in order to strengthen their capacity to report on the issues pertaining to the non-majority communities) to learn any of the official languages regardless of place of residence through formal and non-formal education.

0 Initiatives

Media and communication

42. To undertake efforts to increase the number of women in media, including in leadership positions;

2 Initiatives

Media and communication

43. Include gender-related issues in the media and do more to reflect gender equality within reporting.

4 Initiatives

Media and communication

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

26 Initiatives

Good governance and access to services

45. Religious communities should be more gender aware, respect for women rights, property rights;

1 Initiative

Inter-religious trust-building

46. Public University should introduce Serbian Language Studies Department.

1 Initiative

Good governance and access to services

47. 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.

7 Initiatives

Good governance and access to services