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Luxembourg Cooperation Annual Report 2019
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Kosovo

Project country

Introduction

The year 2019 saw the Kosovan government resign in July and early elections on 6 October 2019; a government was formed in February 2020. The partnership committee meeting between Luxembourg and Kosovo, planned for the second half of 2019 in Pristina, Kosovo, had to be postponed.

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In 2019, Luxembourg’s offi­cial devel­op­ment assis­tance to Koso­vo amount­ed to more than EUR 5.4 mil­lion. In addi­tion to the tech­ni­cal assis­tance project at the Min­istry of Euro­pean Inte­gra­tion Luxembourg’s Devel­op­ment Coop­er­a­tion focused in par­tic­u­lar on the sec­tors of health and voca­tion­al training.

In par­al­lel with this sup­port, Lux­em­bourg con­tin­ued to co-finance the dis­trict heat­ing net­work devel­op­ment project in the cap­i­tal, Pristi­na, imple­ment­ed by Ger­man devel­op­ment bank KfW. In addi­tion, the project imple­ment­ed by the EBRD since 2018, which pro­vides advice for small and medi­um-sized enter­pris­es in Koso­vo, has hit its stride dur­ing the past year.

The two mul­ti­lat­er­al projects, run respec­tive­ly with UNICEF and joint­ly with the UNDP, the WHO and UNV, devel­oped in a sat­is­fac­to­ry way and will be com­plet­ed at the end of 2020. In 2019, the ​‘Health­i­er Koso­vo’ project (UNDP-WHO-UNV), whose goal is to con­tribute to the reduc­tion of the envi­ron­ment-relat­ed dis­ease bur­den on pop­u­la­tion health, trained the mem­bers of the Envi­ron­ment and Health Com­mit­tee, which reports to the Office of the Prime Min­is­ter. The capac­i­ties of the nation­al pub­lic health insti­tute were strength­ened in order to mea­sure the impact of air pol­lu­tion on health by car­ry­ing out health impact assess­ments using Air Q+, a spe­cial­ly designed pro­gramme. The first stud­ies were com­plet­ed togeth­er with the Koso­van hydrom­e­te­o­ro­log­i­cal insti­tute in 2019. At the same time, an analy­sis was con­duct­ed of poli­cies and laws on air pol­lu­tion man­age­ment, as well as var­i­ous stud­ies on air qual­i­ty in schools.

Lux­em­bourg has con­tin­ued to sup­port action tak­en by Car­i­tas Lux­em­bourg, par­tic­u­lar­ly through Fon­da­tion Koso­vo-Lux­em­bourg (FKL), its Koso­van enti­ty, with the most vul­ner­a­ble groups in Koso­vo. Final­ly, in rela­tion to sup­port for Kosovo’s civ­il soci­ety organ­i­sa­tions (Koso­var Civ­il Soci­ety Foun­da­tion (KCSF)), the third region­al train­ing course for NGOs on the con­tri­bu­tion to Euro­pean inte­gra­tion was held in Octo­ber 2019, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Bruges Col­lege of Europe.

Highlighted project

Koso­var Civ­il Soci­ety Foun­da­tion (KCSF)

KCSF is a well-known oper­a­tor in civ­il soci­ety and plays a role rather sim­i­lar to that of the Cer­cle des ONG in Lux­em­bourg. It is a sig­nif­i­cant and reli­able part­ner, with laud­able deliv­ery and per­for­mance rates. The year 2019 saw the close mon­i­tor­ing and con­tin­ued imple­men­ta­tion of projects from pre­vi­ous years, and 8 of the 12 have recent­ly been suc­cess­ful­ly closed. There have been 10 new projects in the area of pre­ven­tion of rad­i­cal­i­sa­tion through social inte­gra­tion. In Octo­ber 2019, the third region­al ​‘Exec­u­tive Train­ing for CSOs for con­tri­bu­tion on Euro­pean Inte­gra­tion‘ was held in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Col­lege of Europe, focus­ing on the social inte­gra­tion of young people.

Priority areas of intervention

  • Good health and well-being
  • Quality education
  • Gender equality
  • Affordable and clean energy
  • Decent work and economic growth
  • Reduced inequalities
  • Sustainable cities and communities

Reference data

  • Population: 1,810,366
  • GNI (per resident): USD 4,640
  • Life expectancy: 72
  • Indicative Cooperation Programme: 2017-2020

Key achievements 2019

  • In July 2019, an exten­sion of 12 months and a bud­get increase of EUR 700,000 was grant­ed to enable Car­i­tas, through its local enti­ty, the Fon­da­tion Koso­vo-Lux­em­bourg (FKL), to con­tin­ue its impor­tant work with the most vul­ner­a­ble groups in Koso­vo and to con­sol­i­date the results achieved. Mar­gin­alised groups, includ­ing women, young peo­ple and minori­ties, are the main ben­e­fi­cia­ries of Car­i­tas’s cur­rent remit in Kosovo. 
  • In April 2019, the act­ing chargée d’affaires par­tic­i­pat­ed in a con­fer­ence on the impact of air pol­lu­tion held in Pristi­na as part of the ​‘Health­i­er Koso­vo’ project imple­ment­ed by UNDP, the WHO and UNV. Through many events such as this con­fer­ence, the project is mak­ing a major con­tri­bu­tion to final­ly putting the top­ic of air pol­lu­tion at the heart of debate in Kosovo.

Sector breakdown

2019