On April 19, the Center for the Protection and Rehabilitation of Women and Children "Liria" and NGO "Legend" held the closing meeting of the project "Gender Responsive Budgeting (GRB)". The meeting was attended by officials of the three municipalities of Vitia, Gjilan and Kamenica, as well as representatives of KWN. 
      The Municipality of Kamenica, earlier, with support from KWN, had taken measures regarding GRB and the results were satisfactory, as Kamenica was the first Municipality in Kosovo to integrate GRB in their Medium Term Budget Framework (MTBF) in 2014 and 2015, as well as in their annual budget for the year 2016. Meanwhile, the municipality of Vitia and Gjilan were the most disadvantaged in terms of GRB, since they never before had taken such an initiative and the challenges they faced in these two municipalities have been the fact that previously they had no knowledge of what GRB means; why GRB is important, and many officials had misunderstood noting that "you, women are looking for more" without knowing that GRB does not include only women and girls, but its integration can benefit women, men, girls, and boys from all backgrounds.  Now, both these municipalities have started to do analysis and research regarding GRB, which shows the success that these two organizations have achieved with this project. 
     "Gender Responsive Budgeting can be easily achieved; this can be done every year during the budget approval and the allocation of the budget should be in an equal way," said an official from the municipality of Vitia.  Significant contribution in terms of GRB in the municipality of Kamenica have given the Women’s Group of the municipality, which have made very deep research in schools and health care, to see if women or men are more involved in these institutions, and have advocated on these institutions for changes to be made in terms of gender equality. 
     "Gender equality can be achieved gradually," said an official from Vitia. "Perhaps the reason why we have employed more men than women, was their education, as more men were educated than women, and nowadays the opposite is happening." 
     The director of the organization Liria said that "the goal of this project was the involvement of GRB in these three municipalities. The project has been very important and very successful, since before that very few officials knew what GRB means and very few institutions have implemented it in their jobs." It is important to note that this initiative will build on the prior work of different actors in these municipalities. Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), KWN, and other actors have previously worked in various municipalities, including Kamenica. Liria and Legend helped spread the expertise Kamenica obtained from these actors to two more Municipalities, Vitia and Gjilan. 
  This initiative was supported by the Kosovo Women’s Fund and financed by the European Union Office in Kosovo.