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Establishment 
Staff
Budget
Achievements
Projects
Expertise
Donors
Contact address
Year of
Establishment:
2000
Current Staff:
Dr. Zeqir Veselaj, Director
Merita Fazliu Mehmed, Project Director
Pranvera Firza, Project and Finance Officer
Naim Arifaj, Office Operational Assistant
Operational
Budget in 2005:
EUR 84,876
Major
Achievements:
Despite the difficult political situation in Kosovo, which is under United Nations interim administration, the REC Field Office in Kosovo has managed to quickly reach Albanian, Serbian and international environmental communities and become the main environmental focal point.
The office has established close cooperation with the international donor community (Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency - SIDA, European Agency for Reconstruction, British Liaison Office). Field Office Kosovo offers such services as strategic environmental assessments to these donors, by implementing their programmes (i.e. technical support, capacity building, awareness-raising or sustainable development) and by providing information, coordination and contacts on South East Europe initiatives the REC undertakes, including the Regional Environmental Reconstruction Programme for South Eastern Europe (REReP).
As one of few international organisations in Kosovo, the office has approached by, and offers services to, both the Albanian and the Serbian environmental NGO community. Its services include organising a five-day Environmental Fellowship Programme, training in organisational development and small grants, and providing information services. Information services include a REC Bulletin in Albanian, English and Serbian, a trilingual Website and an environmental library
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Main
Projects:
Through a well planned and organised mix of projects, Field Office Kosovo reaches the entire territory's environmental community.
Key
activities include:
- Policy making in environmental field that includes preparation of Kosovo/a Strategy for Environment and Kosovo/a Environmental Action Plan in close partnership with Kosovo/a Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning.
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Small grants for local environmental NGOs through the competitive, fair, open and transparent REC Grants Programme (trilingual).
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Publishing and distributing a quarterly REC Bulletin in three languages: Albanian, Serbian and English.
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Information services such as a Webpage, an environmental library and support for different awareness campaigns from local environmental NGOs.
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Implementation of an international (South Eastern Europe) project on ecological agriculture consisting of two workshops for farmers and environmental NGOs, development of a practical booklet with suggestions and guidelines on the issue, and ensuring the involvement of Kosovars in international trainer training seminars for agricultural extension specialists.
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Research and reporting on the environmental situation in Kosovo through the strategic environmental assessment for 2001and a needs assessment on environmental NGOs in Kosovo.
Country
Office Expertise:
Civil society development and capacity building
Environmental policy making
Sustainable development practices
Ecological agriculture
Environmental engineering (air quality)
Environmental and waste management (prevention and recycling)
Local environmental action plan
Information dissemination
Donors
for Projects:
European Agency for Reconstruction
Avalon Foundation, the Netherlands
ICCO, the Netherlands
Kosova Foundation for Open Society, Kosovo
Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning and the Environment, the Netherlands
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Prishtina
British Office in Prishtina
Contact
address:
Kodra e Diellit, Rruga 3
Lamela 26, PO Box 160
10000 Prishtina, Kosova
(under UNMIK Administration)
Tel: (381-38) 552-123
E-mail: info@kos.rec.org
Website: http://kos.rec.org
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Related information:
Strategic Environmental Analysis of
Kosovo (144
pages, 170- Kbyte PDF file, July 2000)
Sharri.Net,
Kosovar environmental NGO network
This page was last updated:
June 2006
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