luxembourg kosovo

KOSOVO
LUXEMBOURG
Development Cooperation
BILATERAL COOPERATION
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Content
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KOSOVO, OVERVIEW
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STRATEGIES & PRINCIPLES
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LUXEMBOURG'S DEVELOPMENT
COOPERATION IN KOSOVO
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FIGURES
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BILATERAL COOPERATION
MULTILATERAL COOPERATION
CONTACTS
Kosovo, overview
7,600 usd
Education expenditure
0.97 %
70
GDP - per capita (PPP)
4.3% of GDP
Population
Population growth rate
Life expectancy at birth
Median age
Human Development Index ranking in 2013
1,859,200
28
87 / 186
92%
45%
Unemployment rate
Literacy rate
10 887 km
Surface
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Intervention of Luxembourg's Development Cooperation
Embassy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in Pristina, Kosovo
LuxDev Regional Office
SERBIA
MONTENEGRO
Mitrovicë
(Mitrovica)
Prishtinë
Pejë
(Peć)
(Priština)
Gnjilane
Gjakovë
Ferizaji
(Đakovica)
ALBANIA
(Uroševac)
Prizren
MACEDONIA
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Luxembourg's Development Cooperation:
Strategies & principles
Luxembourg's Development Cooperation is strongly
committed to eradicating poverty, particularly in
Least Developed Countries (LDC). Actions are
designed and implemented in the spirit of sustainable development including its social, economic and
environmental aspects – with women, children and
men at their core.
life saving operations. Disaster prevention and post
disaster transition work are part of Luxembourg’s
humanitarian assistance strategy.
In parallel, Luxembourg's Development Cooperation
is actively involved in discussions on new quality
standards of international development aid. Luxembourg, as the acting Presidency of the Council of the
European Union in 2005, played an important role in
the negotiation and adoption of the Paris Declaration
on Aid Effectiveness, and Luxembourg also endorsed
the Accra Agenda for Action (AAA) and is committed
to the European Code of Conduct on Complementarity and Division of Labour.
Luxembourg’s Development Cooperation aims primarily to contribute to implementing the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015. The main
intervention sectors for cooperation are: health, education, including vocational and technical training
and access to labour markets, and integrated local
development with a strong emphasis on water and
sanitation. Relevant initiatives in the field of microfinance are encouraged and supported, both at the
conceptual and operational levels.
The general strategy and principles of Luxembourg's
Development Cooperation are complemented by
twelve sector strategies covering the main areas
of Luxembourg's global Development Cooperation,
namely health; humanitarian action; agriculture and
food security; local development; water and sanitation; education, training and employability; environment and climate change; gender; governance, capacity building; fragile states and microfinance.
From a geographic point of view, Luxembourg's
Development Cooperation has a policy of focusing
interventions in a restricted number of partner countries in order to optimise effectiveness and impact.
Since the year 2000, Luxembourg has been one of the
few industrialised countries contributing more than
0.7% of their Gross National Income (GNI) to Official Development Assistance (ODA). In 2013, Luxembourg’s ODA reached 323 Million EUR representing
1% of GNI. This ODA is channelled through bilateral
cooperation, multilateral cooperation, and cooperation through Non Governmental Organisations
(NGOs), as well as through programme support.
Luxembourg’s Development Cooperation and
humanitarian aid policy is characterised by a constant and progressive effort in quantitative and qualitative terms at the service of the poorest. This policy
is an expression of true international solidarity and as
such an important vector of the foreign policy of the
government of Luxembourg..
Besides, whenever natural or man-made disasters
occur, Luxembourg strongly supports rapid humanitarian assistance through crisis management and
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Luxembourg’s Development Cooperation
in Kosovo
Luxembourg’s support to Kosovo began with a broad
humanitarian and reconstruction programme that
was launched immediately after the 1999 conflict.
From 2001 onwards, this effort gradually changed into
a more sustainable development cooperation programme. Today, and with the downscaling of similar
programmes in Montenegro and Serbia after these
countries started EU accession talks, Kosovo remains
the main beneficiary of Luxembourg’s development
aid in the Balkans.
information system, has supported the Ministry of
Health to develop an integrated national health strategy and its corresponding action plan. Because of this
close cooperation with the Ministry of Health, Luxembourg was designated lead donor in the health sector.
In parallel to these bilateral projects, Caritas Luxembourg is implementing, via its office in Ferizaj, a range
of projects that foster employment generation, community development, income generating activities, as
well as support to schools and medical facilities.
On 23 April 2013, the first partnership committee
between the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the
Republic of Kosovo was held in Luxembourg during
which a general four-year cooperation agreement was
signed that set the development aid framework for the
2013-2016 period. This framework lays out the main
principles for Luxembourg’s action, focussing on the
sectors of vocational education/training; health; and
water and sanitation. This increased formalisation
went hand in hand with the strengthening of diplomatic ties between both countries. This is when the
former Development Cooperation Office in Pristina,
established in 1999, was upgraded to an Embassy
headed by a non-resident ambassador.
At the same time UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO are running
a Luxembourg-financed joint programme in reproductive health, in synergy with the bilateral health programme. Luxembourg is also co-financing a UNOPS/
Kosovo Agency of Statistics (KAS)-led population and
housing census.
Finally, Luxembourg is co-financing, via a delegated
cooperation to the European Union, the modernisation of the Pristina district heating system.
Currently three bilateral projects are being implemented by Lux-Development: (i) one in the field of
vocational education, where two vocational schools
in Ferizaj (paramedical sector) and Prizren (trade
professions) are being built and accompanied; (ii) one
in the field of water and sanitation, through which the
Mitrovica regional water network is being rehabilitated
and the capacities of the regional water company
enhanced; and (iii) the third in the health sector. This
last project, which aims at creating a national health
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Figures
1. Bilateral Cooperation
Duration
Code
2009-2014
Title
Sector
KSV/014
Health Sector Support Programme in Kosovo
2009-2016
KSV/015
Support to Vocational Education and Training Reform in Kosovo:
Establishment of Centres of Competence in Ferizaj and Prizren
Health
2011-2014
KSV/016
Institutional and Technical Support for the Water Supply System,
Mitrovica Region
2015-2018
KSV/017
Health Sector Support Programme in Kosovo (II)
2014-2018
KSV/018
Institutional and Technical Support for the Water Supply System,
Mitrovica Region (II)
2011-2014
Caritas
2014-2016
Caritas
Vocational
training
Total
Budget EUR
6,500,000
10,000,000
Water &
Sanitation
4,500,000
Health
6,000,000
Water &
Sanitation
4,500,000
Kosovo: Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Development
Social
3,411,893
Kosovo: Drawing on Experience, Tracing the Future
Social
2,000,000
2. Multilateral Cooperation
Duration
Title
Sector
2012-2015 Pristina District Heating (delegated to EU)
Energy
2007-2016 Improving Health of Women & Children (I & II)
Health
Population
policy
2010-2015 Population & Housing Census in Kosovo
Evolution of funds disbursed
million EUR
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
2011
4,952,467
2012
11,309,659
2013
6,804,216
2014
7,758,903
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2015
5,835,769
2016
7,336,881
Total
Budget EUR
1,500,000
4,834,700
800,000
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BILATERAL COOPERATION
Health Sector Support Programme in Kosovo
2009-2014
As part of the implementation of the National
Health Sector Strategy, the project directly
assists the Kosovar Ministry of Health (MoH) in
strengthening its capacities and implementing an
ambitious reform of the sector.
Project results are achieved through technical
assistance in direct support to the Ministry and
its staff. This technical assistance is focusing
on the elaboration of various policy options for
decision makers and supporting the MoH in the
implementation of these strategic priorities.
KSV/014
in the country. A roll-out to all remaining health
facilities is planned in a second phase.
Lastly, the project has consolidated a previous Luxembourgish intervention in the Prizren
region, where the regional hospital was upgraded.
This time, additional improvements have been
made to this same hospital as well as to municipal health infrastructures in the region.
Contribution from Luxembourg's
Development Cooperation: 6,500,000 EUR
Moreover, the project has conceptualised and
is currently implementing, the first phase of an
electronic health information system covering no
less than 40% of all health provision institutions
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New neonatology unit in Prizren Hospital
BILATERAL COOPERATION
Support to Vocational Education and Training Reform
in Kosovo: Establishment of Centres of Competence in
Ferizaj and Prizren
2009-2016
KSV/015
The project supports the Ministry of Education,
Science and Technology (MEST) of Kosovo and
contributes to the modernisation of the formal
education system through a Vocational and Educational Training (VET) sector reform.
It concentrates on the establishment of two Centres of Competence (CoC), one for health care in
Ferizaj and the other for trade and commerce in
Prizren. Apart from the construction and equipment of the two CoCs, taking into account the
defined occupational profiles and the needs of the
two sectors, the project also includes curriculum
development with the respective training of trainers and capacity building of CoC staff.
The future CoCs' main purpose will be to provide
initial VET in secondary education for youngsters. In addition, these centres will work closely
with private companies in their respective sectors
to develop hands on and "work-based" learning
opportunities for VET students, and will also offer
in-house training and Life-Long-Learning services
for businesses.
These two CoCs, with the other five centres
included in the MEST program serve as pilot projects in the VET sector reform.
Contribution from Luxembourg's
Development Cooperation:
10,000,000 EUR
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Learning to become a Pharmacy assistant in Ferizaj
BILATERAL COOPERATION
Institutional and Technical Support for the Water
Supply System, Mitrovica
2011-2014
As part of a global effort to rehabilitate the
regional water network of the Mitrovica region
this project in particular seeks to increase water
supply capacity.
Most of the region’s water supply first passes
through Mitrovica, the most populated city in
the region. Therefore, the overall efforts to modernise the region’s urban water supply networks
starts with the rehabilitation of Mitrovica’s infrastructure.
KSV/016
knowledge of the distribution network and indicators for good performance follow-up as well as
the maintenance of the system.
These interventions are meant to address the
needs of a modern market-oriented service provider.
Contribution from Luxembourg's
Development Cooperation: 4,500,000 EUR
Moreover, the project concentrates on the
improvement of management capabilities and
investment capacity (cost recovery), a better
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Trenching
BILATERAL COOPERATION
Health Sector Support Programme in Kosovo (Phase II)
Formulation
In view of Luxembourg’s experience in Kosovo,
which was gained through the implementation of
two projects “Strengthening of the Regional Hospital of Prizren” and more importantly the “Health
Support Programme in Kosovo”, the Ministry of
Health in Kosovo approached the Luxembourg
Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (MFEA)
to discuss possibilities for further support in the
health sector.
Both parties came to an agreement, which led to a
project formulation mandate for LuxDev to write
a new project, i.e. phase II of the Health Support
Programme in Kosovo. This new venture aims
at supporting the implementation of the health
sector reform, developing management capacities within the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the
healthcare institutions as well as creating new
financing mechanisms.
KSV/017
The project will specifically focus on three main
areas:
Strengthening the capacity of the MoH and its
relevant institutions with respect to sectorwide strategic management and leadership for
implementation of the health sector reform;
• Operationalisation of the integrated Health
Information System (HIS) at national level as
well as continued implementation of the 20102020 HIS Strategy; and
• Improving skills and capacities of the health
staff.
This support will be implemented from within
the Kosovo MoH and have a direct impact on all
health care institutions of the healthcare system
and naturally the entire population of Kosovo.
•
Contribution from Luxembourg's
Development Cooperation: 6,000,000 EUR
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BILATERAL COOPERATION
Institutional and Technical Support for the Water
Supply System in Mitrovica Region (Phase II)
2014-2018
KSV/018
The "Institutional and Technical Support for the
Water Supply System in Mitrovica Region (Phase
II) project is a logical follow-up to the "Institutional and Technical Support for the Water
Supply System in Mitrovica" project. It consolidates the results achieved through the former
phase in the area of technical capacity development. Moreover the project aims at strengthening the management capacity of the Mitrovica
Regional Water Company (MRWC) and ensuring
a reliable and sustainable water supply for the
population served.
The project’s focus lies in institutional strengthening and support to guide the MRWC with the
objective to upgrade the organisation and its procedures towards a customer-oriented water company.
It will also concentrate on upgrading or replacing
the existing assets of the Mitrovica regional water
supply system in order to reduce pumping and
reduce leakages.
Contribution from Luxembourg's
Development Cooperation: 4,500,000 EUR
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New pipes for Mitrovica
BILATERAL COOPERATION
Activities of Caritas Luxembourg
2007-2016
In 2007, the Luxembourg's Development Cooperation mandated Caritas Luxembourg to establish
an office in Kosovo and implement projects in the
social sectors with the goal to fight poverty and
improve the livelihoods of the most vulnerable.
Since then several multi-annual strategies were
designed and implemented by Caritas.
Strategy in Kosovo 2011-2014: Poverty
Alleviation through Sustainable
Development
Strategy in Kosovo 2014-2016: Drawing
on Experience, Tracing the Future
Drawing on experience, tracing the future is the
follow-up of the previous strategy, maintaining
identical sectors of intervention but reducing the
number of municipalities to four in the South
(Vitina, Hani i Elezit, Kaçanik and Kllokot) while
including the Northern part of Kosovo (Mitrovica, Leposavić, Zvečan and Zubin Potok).
Poverty alleviation through sustainable development focused on the sectors of health, income
generating activities and education. It was developed through a participatory approach involving
all main stakeholders and was based on separate
needs assessments in each sector as well as on
key strategic documents of the Luxembourg's
Development Cooperation and of the Kosovar
government. It was implemented through a community development approach with a geographic
concentration on six municipalities in the Southern region, namely Ferizaj, Hani i Elezit, Kaçanik,
Gnjilane, Vitina and Kllokot. The cross-cutting
issues of conflict prevention, gender and environmental sustainability were integrated in all
project activities but were also tackled directly
though specific interventions.
Contribution from Luxembourg's
Development Cooperation: 3,411,893 EUR
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Contribution from Luxembourg's
Development Cooperation: 2,000,000 EUR
MULTILATERAL COOPERATION
UNOPS: Population and Housing Census
2010-2015
The overall objective of this project is to generate a reliable demographic, social and economic
profile of Kosovo in line with the International
Standards for Census Activities and that can be
used as a basis for socio-economic assessments,
policy and decision-making. The population cen-
sus took place in 2011 and the results were published on 21 September 2012. It is now being completed by an agricultural census.
Contribution from Luxembourg's
Development Cooperation: 800,000 EUR
UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO: Improving the Health
of Women & Children
2007-2016
The comprehensive UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO joint
programme is an initiative to support Kosovo's
government in strengthening the health care system, improving the quality of mother and child
health care services and achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals 4 (reduce child mortality) and 5 (improve maternal health). It is aligned
with the Ministry of Health's sector strategy, as
well as the strategy for maternal, child, adoles-
cent and reproductive health 2011–2015. The
main goals are: (i) improving and implementing
legislation and legal framework; (ii) improving
access to, and quality of reproductive health services; (iii) improving the monitoring and evaluation system; and (iv) developing professional
capacity.
Contribution from Luxembourg's
Development Cooperation: 4,834,700 EUR
District Heating Pristina (delegated to EU)
2012-2015
Through a delegated cooperation to the European Union, Luxembourg is co-financing the
modernisation of the Pristina district heating system and its linkage to the Obiliq power plant, so
that excess heat generated at this coal-fired plant
may in the future serve to heat households in the
capital city.
Contribution from Luxembourg's
Development Cooperation: 1,500,000 EUR
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Contacts
Embassy of the Grand-Duchy of
Luxembourg in Kosovo
LuxDev Pristina
Léon Delvaux
Pascal Rossignol
5, rue Notre-Dame
L-2240 Luxembourg
LUXEMBOURG
Regional Office - Pristina
Regional Representative for Balkans
non resident Ambassador
Email:
Tel:
Rr. Metush Krasniqi 14
(Dragodan)
Pristina - KOSOVO
pristina.amb@mae.etat.lu
+352 2478 2457
Email :
Tel :
Email :
Pierre Weber
Chargé d'Affaires a.i.
rossignol@luxdev.lu
(381) 38 226 780
rof.blk@luxdev.lu
Rr. Metush Krasniqi 14 (Dragodan)
10 000 Pristina
KOSOVO
Email:
Tel:
secretariat.pristina@mae.etat.lu
+381 (0) 38 226 787
Directorate for Development Cooperation
and Humanitarian Action, Ministry of Foreign
and European Affairs
LuxDev Headquarters
Jean-Marc Lentz
LuxDev
Desk Officer Balkans
6, rue de la Congrégation
L-1352 Luxembourg
LUXEMBOURG
Email :
Tel :
jean-marc.lentz@mae.etat.lu
(352) 247 82 448
http://cooperation.mae.lu/fr
Dzeneta Ramic
Geographical Adviser - Balkans
10, rue de la Grève
BP 2273
L - 1022 Luxembourg
LUXEMBOURG
Email :
Tel :
Fax :
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dzeneta.ramic@luxdev.lu
(352) 29 58 58 236
(352) 29 58 58 200
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Luxembourg's Development Cooperation
Edited by LuxDev in August 2014
on behalf of the Directorate for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Action