Kosovo Women's Network

The Long and Winding Road to GRB Institutionalization

01.06.2016

Austria is a global model for the successful institutionalization of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB). First and foremost, GRB is ingrained in the Austrian Constitution itself, but perhaps even more important is the fact that Austria has concrete mechanisms at both local and federal levels that ensure the sustainable institutionalization of GRB. In May 2016 a Kosovo delegation visited Vienna for a study visit on GRB. Among others, the delegation was comprised of the Acting Head of the Agency for Gender Equality (AGE), Municipal Budget Directors, municipal Chief Finance Officers, Ministry of Finance (MoF) budget analysts, representative of the Ministry of Local Governance, and one KWN representative. The Delegation met with various Viennese as well as Federal Austrian institutions, to gain insight from their experience with this successful institutionalization.
    Two particularly captivating meetings for the participants included meeting the Ministry of Finance, and the Budget Fraction of the Austrian Parliament. Representatives of the institutions heavily emphasized that it is very difficult, if not impossible to institutionalize GRB all by itself. It needs to be part of a general public finance reform. They further added that in Austria this reform took over 15 years, but GRB was a vital part of the reform, and that Austria could have never institutionalized GRB has it not been part of the reform from scratch one. This is a lesson persons working on GRB in Kosovo should bear in mind. Kosovo has indeed made many GRB-related successes in the past couple of years, but the successes have not yet occurred within a larger public finance reform picture.
    The Municipal Directorate of the City of Vienna has a specific sector that works solely on GRB. This sector is made of experts on gender issues, gender sensitive planning, gender disaggregated statistics, and gender responsive budgeting. Advocating for GRB sectors in all budget directorates in Kosovo might be too overly ambitious at this point in time. However, what could be done in Kosovo that could be similar to the Viennese experience, is for the MoF to hire one GRB expert amongst its Budget Analysts.
     Returning to the Federal Level, Gender Objectives, Activities, and Indicators are part of the Austrian mid-term planning documents, as well as annual budget laws. Furthermore, all Ministries at the Federal Level, are required to set 5 mid-term objectives, at least one of which needs to be directly related to gender issues. This is very valuable information that could also be implemented in Kosovo without too much effort. A simple re-organizing of the annual budget law could lead to this important result.
    The fact that Austria has an inter-ministerial working group on GRB was also very interesting to hear. A similar group for Kosovo could be able to achieve important successes, including influencing the Medium Term Expenditure Framework/Medium Term Budget Framework, and Budget Circulars.
All in all, the Study Visit gave some important insights on mechanisms that help institutionalize and sustain GRB. The information gathered showed participants that while Kosovo has been making initial steps in this regard, a long and winding road is still ahead of us.
The study visit was organized by the Organization for Security and Cooperation Europe (OSCE) Mission in Kosovo.

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Workshop session on Women’s Rights on Immovable Property Rights and Inheritance

24.05.2016

In line with KWN advocacy objectives to ensure women’s rights on property and inheritance, the two days workshop session took place in Prizren as a part of the efforts to build the capacities of KWN activists on the legal framework and social aspects of property and inheritance rights and gender equality as well as institutional mechanisms involved on gender issues.
    During the first day of the workshop participants had the chance to understand in depth the international conventions on gender equality and property aspects as well as the Kosovar legal framework.
   On the second day participants has been briefed on the institutional mechanisms in place that supports gender equality in general and property rights aspects in particular.
     The workshop has been organized within the KWN project on “Gender Equality on Immovable Property Rights” as a kick off activity which will support activists from five(5) municipalities in assisting women to register their property.
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Mentoring and Data Collection within the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning

11.05.2016

The month of April kicked off the mentoring sessions and data collection meetings with officials from the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) and the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning (MESP) that Kosovo Women’s Network (KWN) organizes with the aim of increasing understanding of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) basic concepts and implementation among these two ministries.

Most of the representatives that KWN mentored this week, where not present at the workshop on GRB that was held in March. These sessions therefore were very fruitful for they resulted into a greater number of officials within the MTI and MESP being informed on the basic concepts of GRB. Besides this, the representatives, same as during the previous meetings, presented KWN the main activities of their departments and also specific expenditures, investments and programs were discussed aiming to integrate GRB in those documents. Agreements were made to send follow-up questions in order to get data which will contribute to the analysis that the grantee will conduct on the budget and policy documents of the ministry.

KWN made some interesting findings during these meetings in relation to the processes of data collecting within some sectors of the ministry. For example, during the meeting with the Chief Executive of the Kosovo Business Registration Agency, it became apparent that the first step of doing GRB has been made within this Agency. For, since 2012 within the framework of business registration, data has been segregated by gender. Meaning that businesses that are registered in this agency are divided by gender. In this way, the agency has been able to generate and analyze data and information based on gender which has shown that the number of businesses owned by women and registered has been growing throughout these years.

KWN is now collecting data, analyzing and processing this for each department, division and agency. The following steps are setting up meetings with a few more representatives, keeping close contact with the ones that have been mentored in order to assist them with the integration of a gender perspective in their activities, policies and budget documents.

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KWN’s Launches Policy Paper Toward “Striking Balance” in Labour Law Amendments

11.05.2016

On 4 May, the Kosovo Women’s Network (KWN) launched its policy paper “Striking a Balance – Policy Options for Amending Kosovo’s Law on Labour”.
The opening remarks were given by Igballe Rogova, Executive Director of KWN; Basri Ibrahimi, Labour Inspectorate, and Edi Gusia, Acting Executive Director of AGE.
“The Ministry should cooperate with women and KWN, as an organisation that represents women’s rights,” said Mr. Basri Ibrahimi, on behalf of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare. “We are aware that society cannot function normally if it does not have emancipated women, with their rights protected.”
Edi Gusia, Acting Executive Director of the Agency for Gender Equality in the Office of the Prime Minsiter of the Republic of Kosovo said – “The amendments to the Labour Law should focus on the Maternity Leave provisions and on the mother, father and child, in order to reeducate a generation of fathers and to protect the interests of mothers and children.”
KWN prepared this policy paper with the purpose of informing the proposed amendements to the Law on Labour. The research includes an analysis of the existing relevant legal framework, a review of practices in other countries, results from a survey of 1,301 women and 374 men in Kosovo and results from a face-to-face survey of a simple random sample of 400 employers (private, public, and civil society) from 30 municipalities.
Responses by employers and surveyed women alike suggest that there is gender discrimination in hiring in Kosovo. Evidence also suggests that some employers are discriminating against women in hiring because of current maternity leave provisions.

When given the choice between a woman and a man with exactly the same education, qualifications, and experience, 45.5% of employers would choose the man.
38.8% of employers say they consider a job applicant’s family plans during the hiring process
Nearly 3 in 4 women said that employers asked them about their marital status and plans to have children during interviews.
40 surveyed women reported being required to take a test to prove that they were not pregnant in order to be hired
12% of employers said they have not hired a woman because they could not afford maternity leave

“The KWN policy proposals give equal opportunities to fathers and mothers with respect to paternity leave. They don’t discriminate against men, as the current maternity leave provisions do,” said Nicole Farnsworth, KWN Lead Researcher and a co-author during her presentation. She called up on the Ministry to ensure that amendments to the law do not discriminate against women or men, as well as to ensure that gender and cost analyses are carried out in order to inform the law with evidence.

The policy paper has interrelated policy proposals for maternity leave, paternity leave, safeguarding women workers’ time for breastfeeding, the importance of establishing more care centres in Kosovo and other recommendations for amending the Labour Law.

This research and launching event was made possible through the kind donations of KWN’s individual members that provide crucial support which enables KWN to undertake urgent research when donor funding is unavailable, Sirius Hotel for the space and audio system for free, Mars A for translation in audio system for free and Night Design for free printing of the report.

To read the report, please visit www.womensnetwork.org.

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Women’s rights organizations from Balkans trained on lobbying for gender equality in Brussels

29.04.2016

The participants also took part in a joint session with European Women’s Lobby addressing the need for gendering EU Enlargement and exploring joint opportunities for Women’s Rights Organizations in Western Balkan. Among others the speakers and guests included: Ulrike Lunacek MEP, Jasenko Selimovic, MEP, Karolina Vrethem, Gender Adviser DG NEAR and Joana Maycock. The importance of having a gender perspective and women’s voices heard through the EU enlargement process was emphasized many times. On the other hand, activists from countries that have recently joined the EU (Croatia, Cezchia, Poland etc.) expressed their concerns about women’s rights in their respective countries after joining the EU, noting how gender equality is not treated as a priority anymore. Their advice consisted on making the best out of the accession process as this is the crucial time to influence gender equality and women’s rights. Lobbying is a more specific form of advocacy that includes communication with key targets and influentials through meetings, briefings and conversations to educate and convince them to support and advance your agenda.The approach you can take can be cooperative, confrontational, and persuasive or a mix of them keeping in mind the advantages and disadvantages that come with every approach. Some of the most important advice when lobbying at the European Parliament or even lobbying to the officials in Kosovo is developing clear messages which can be achieved by keeping your messages simple with information that is locally relevant, clear facts and numbers and presenting a solution if possible, always keeping in mind who your audience is. Before any meeting with relevant stakeholders it is very important that you do your research beforehand, and know what their background is, what their interests are, what informal groups they belong to and if their position is relevant to your cause.

This training was supported by Kvinna till Kvinna and their effort of bringing Balkan’s women’s CSO’s advocacy initiatives closer to the European Union.

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KWN Members Learn about Gender Equality in Real Estate Property

29.04.2016

On 18 April, KWN held its bimonthly meeting. Guests included 52 representatives of member organizations, Board members, friends and supporter of KWN, representatives from institutions, and KWN staff. During this meeting, Gentiana Murati, Project Assistant for the Kosovo Women’s Fund (KWF), informed participants for the beneficiaries of the 9th round of KWF, by informing them on the names of the beneficiary organizations, the amount they are receiving, and which donor is supporting them.

“The 10th round of KWF will open up very soon, so those organizations that did not win this time, do not hesitate, come, visit us, let us work together, and let us hope that you will succeed in the 10th round” – Gentiana stated. Afterwards, one representative of the climbers who went to Mt. Kilimanjaro a few weeks prior, Ms. Merita Gashi, shared her story of this brave account, which included them putting up a banner stating “Justice for Victims of Sexual Violence during the Kosovo war”. This flag was put up together with the Kosovo flag.

Afterwards, Shkumbin Asllani presented with the theme “Gender Equality in Real Estate Property” since KWN soon will start a campaign in this issue, as part of a project supported by PPSE Swisscontact which will include five municipalities in assisting women to register their property. Within this project, NGO Artpolis will use forum theatre in raising awareness in communities; KWN members will be trained and then go in door to door campaigns to support women physically in registering their property, This includes free legal aid and support in cost payment if needed. There will be collaboration with member organizations of KWN which have accepted grants from Kosovo Women’s Fund and with members of Lobby for Gender Equality through the same method, in order to influence as many people as possible.

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Lobby for Gender Equality in Kosovo discusses gender equality, women’s human rights and Kosovo’s EU accession process

29.04.2016

During April 1-3, Kosovo Women’s Network (KWN) organized a meeting of Lobby for Gender Equality in Durres, Albania. The theme of this meeting was “Gender equality, women’s human rights and Kosovo’s accession process in the European Union (EU)”. Diverse 115 women participated, including officers for gender equality, the representative of KtK, KWN staff and assembly members and representatives of KWN members from 26 different municipalities in Kosovo.
Through this three day meeting it was discussed how EU legislation is applied in Kosovo and what is meant to be achieved through EU’s 2016-2020 Gender Action Plan. Also, the meeting aimed to show the importance of lobby members in contributing to this process in advocating for women’s human rights and gender equality. Furthermore, Lobby groups took the opportunity to share their achievements from advocacy initiatives done in their respective municipalities for 2015 pertaining to gender equality, and their newly planned initiatives for 2016.
Among others, Mimoza Shala, assembly member from Gjakova stated “what we have done so far is solely a scratch of the surface and the situation needs to change fundamentally; what we have done is only 10% of our work”.
In order for women to contribute and be involved in Kosovo’s EU accession process, they worked in ten different groups with different subjects, including: women’s involvement in politics, gender pay gap, professional training and education, poverty from a gender perspective, health, childcare, migration and human trafficking, pensions and informal economy. They discussed and then presented their recommendations which will be drafted into a policy brief by KWN. From these recommendations, KWN will have more extensive knowledge on what the needs and priorities of women and girls are, and how KWN and relevant stakeholders can help and work to improve the lives of girls and women in Kosovo. This meeting was supported by Kvinna till Kvinna with financial support from the Swedish Embassy.

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KWN lobbies in Brussels: Women’s human rights should be a priority in Kosovo’s EU accession process

29.04.2016

During 20-22 of April, women’s rights activists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia lobbied for gender equality and women’s rights in Brussels.
Participants met with Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) Jozo Rados (Croatia), Tanja Fajon (Slovenia), various representatives from the Directorate General for Neighborhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR), including Helen Larsson and Isabelle Wertheim from DG NEAR Kosovo, Karolina Vrethem, Gender Adviser, Catherine Wendt, acting Director for Western Balkans, DG NEAR, Björn van Roozendaal from European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) and representatives from The European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO).

Issues raised by KWN included, but were not limited:

Prioritization of women’s human rights, visibility of women’s human rights and inclusion of women CSO in Kosovo’s EU accession process
The need to further mainstream a gender perspective throughout the Progress Report including a more intersectional approach
The importance for the Progress Report to highlight that all public institutions need to keep gender disaggregated data, gender-mainstreaming in all laws, documents, and policies put forth by the government and institutions and implementation of Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB) in accordance with the Law on Gender Equality.
The appointment of a full time, permanent Gender Advisor for EU Missions
Sustainable funding for women CSOs, supporting women’s rights organizations institutionally, and directly
Women’s overall underrepresentation in decision-making processes in Kosovo and inclusion of women in the Kosovo- Serbia Dialogue as per UNSCR 1325
Women’s low participation in the labour market, discrimination in the workforce and the need for parental leave
Lack of funding for health sector improvements and reforms
Gender-based violence, in particular domestic violence and sexual harassment
Budget not allocated for compensating survivors of sexual violence during the war
The lack of gender perspective in the National Plan on the Implementation of SSA (NPISSA)
Obligatory training on gender equality for all civil servants as part of the Public Administration Reform

EU representatives acknowledged the importance of improving gender equality and women’s empowerment and involvement of women’s CSO. They expressed interest in having more in-depth consultation with women’s CSO’s through the process especially in regard to the upcoming Progress Report.

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Women’s Rights Organizations from Balkans trained on Lobbying for Gender Equality in Brussels

29.04.2016

During April 18-19, women’s rights activists from Balkans, had the opportunity to gather in Brussels and enhance their lobbying skills for gender equality at the European Parliament. Diverse participants included women’s rights activists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. The training focused on advocating at the European Parliament and Country Progress Reports. The participants also took part in a joint session with European Women’s Lobby addressing the need for gendering EU Enlargement and exploring joint opportunities for Women’s Rights Organizations in Western Balkan. Among others the speakers and guests included: Ulrike Lunacek MEP, Jasenko Selimovic, MEP, Karolina Vrethem, Gender Adviser DG NEAR and Joana Maycock. The importance of having a gender perspective and women’s voices heard through the EU enlargement process was emphasized many times. On the other hand, activists from countries that have recently joined the EU (Croatia, Cezchia, Poland etc.) expressed their concerns about women’s rights in their respective countries after joining the EU, noting how gender equality is not treated as a priority anymore. Their advice consisted on making the best out of the accession process as this is the crucial time to influence gender equality and women’s rights.
Lobbying is a more specific form of advocacy that includes communication with key targets and influentials through meetings, briefings and conversations to educate and convince them to support and advance your agenda. The approach you can take can be cooperative, confrontational, and persuasive or a mix of them keeping in mind the advantages and disadvantages that come with every approach. Some of the most important advice when lobbying at the European Parliament or even lobbying to the officials in Kosovo is developing clear messages which can be achieved by keeping your messages simple with information that is locally relevant, clear facts and numbers and presenting a solution if possible, always keeping in mind who your audience is. Before any meeting with relevant stakeholders it is very important that you do your research beforehand, and know what their background is, what their interests are, what informal groups they belong to and if their position is relevant to your cause.
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21 KWN Organizations Receive Grants Amounting to €64,400 from Kosovo Women’s Fund

28.04.2016

The Kosovo Women’s Network (KWN) signed 17 contracts with 21 member organizations, some in partnerships, amounting to €64,400. These projects, distributed through the Kosovo Women’s Fund, will contribute to implementing the KWN Strategy 2015-2018. The Austrian Development Agency (ADA) (€23,451) and the European Union Office in Kosovo (€40,949) is supporting these grants.
   The meeting was opened by KWN Executive Director, Igballe Rogova, she spoke about the establishment of the FKG, “at the beginning the highest amount of a grant was €500 and now the amount of grants (in partnership) achieve €8,000.” She emphasised that the fond has grown because of the transparency, successful implementation of the projects by KWN members and thanks to hard work of KWN staff.      One representative of KWN member organisations present talked about the first grant she received from KWF.
    The meeting was opened by KWN Executive Director, Igballe Rogova, who spoke about the establishment of the KWF, “at the beginning the highest amount of a grant was €500 and now the amount of grants (in partnership) arrive up to €8,000.” She emphasised that KWF has grown because of the transparency, successful implementation of the projects by KWN members and thanks to the hard work of KWN staff.
   One representative of KWN member organisations present talked about the first grant she received from KWF.
    “It was the first round of KWF, and the grant that we received was in amount of €600, but the project was much more valuable than the amount of the grant.”
Afterwards Gentiana Murati, KWF Assistant, explained all contract articles in detail and answered all questions and uncertainties.
   While Donjeta Berisha, Public Relations Coordinator, illustrated the details of the communication and visibility requirements for the project, afterwards Dhurata Mustafa-Azemi, KWF Coordinator, explained the financial part of the projects.
And at the end of the meeting the beneficiaries signed the contracts for their initiatives that they will start implementing from the beginning of May, and they include:

Advocacy Grants for a Single Organization:

NGO Artpolis – Initiative: “FEMART – Festival of Human Rights Artists”; Municipality of Prishtina (€2,900.00)
Kosovo Centre for Multicultural Development and Integration – Initiative: “Youth Economic Empowerment (graduated youth) from minorities: Roma, Ashkali, Egyptian, focussing on the women of these communities”; Municipality of Gjakova (€2,980.00)
NGO Venera – Initiative: “Property belongs to you by law, ask for it since it’s not a shame”; Municipality of Peja (€2,944.50)
Mitrovica Women’s Association for Human Rights (MWAHR) – Initiative: “Women Leaders”; Municipality of North Mitrovica (€3,000.00)
NGO Dita – Initiative: “Promoting women’s rights and empowering their role in property inheritance”; Municipality of Gjilan (€2,968.00)
NGO Protect Your Rights – Initiative: “Protecting the Victims of Domestic Violence”; Municipality of Deçan (€2,865.25)
Foundation for Education and Development – Initiative: “Different languages, a common goal”; Municipality of Shtërpce (€2,855.00)
NGO Speranza – Initiative: “Education and Awareness Raising on Domestic Violence”; Municipality of Mitrovica (€2,929.00)
The Association of Deaf Women – Initiative: “Women in healthcare”; Municipality of Prizren (€2,966.00)
NGO Vita-Jeta – Initiative: “Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal aged Women”; Municipality of Prishtina (€2,965.00)
NGO Dora-Dorës – Initiative: “The Development of Gender Policies in the Municipality of Mamusha”; Municipality of Mamusha (€2,944.40)
NGO Gruaja Bashkëkohore – Initiative: “Not just a number’’; Municipality of Prizren(€2,581.00)
NGO Education Code – Initiative: “Women can also Generate Income in Agriculture”; Municipality of Prishtina (€2,999.00)

Networking for Change Grants:

NGO Flaka & NGO Parajsa jonë; Initiative: “Women’s Right in Property Inheritance”; Municipality of Lipjan (€6,911.00)
Active Women of Gjakova (FAGj) & Initiative for Integration of Communities; Initiative: “Empowering Women through Raising Awareness on Property and Inheritance Rights in the Municipalities of Gjakova and Dragash”; Municipalities of Gjakova and Dragash (€6,650.00)
Initiative for Agriculture and Development of Kosovo (IADK) & NGO ATO; Initiative: “Economic Empowerment and Increase of Capacities of Women in Rural Areas in the Municipality of Vushtrri”; Municipality of Vushtrri (€6,990.00)
NGO Rikotta & NGO Gora; Initiative: “More rights in property ownership”; Prevallac village in the Municipality of Prizren (€5,952.00)

The KWN Kosovo Women’s Fund offers small grants for women’s organizations that lack other funding opportunities and that want to work for women’s rights, especially groups in rural areas and those working with marginalized persons. Since 2012, KWF has supported 103 organizations, totalling €295,092.10. In 2016, the Kosovo Women’s Fund is supported by the Austrian Development Agency (ADA) and the European Union Office in Kosovo.

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