World Learning STAR Network Kosovo

STAR Network Kosovo

Working throughout Kosovo, the STAR Network/Kosovo program addresses:

skill training for women candidates and elected representatives before and after recent municipal elections;
NGO capacity building; and
leadership for economic opportunity through the formation of women's business associations, skill development in micro-credit management, and support services for small business development.



Motrat Qiriazi girls literacy program in Kosovo.

Through the Regional Advisory Board, Kosovar women have new opportunities for skill development, regional collaboration on economic activity and policy advocacy.

Political Empowerment and Skill Trainings increase the capacity of women political leaders in Kosovo to build their skills in the areas of public speaking, issue identification, program development, use of media, and election experience.



	STAR Network helps the Center for Protection of Women and Children, Prishtina, Kosovo, to expand their activities to reach young women.

NGO Leadership Workshops enhance effective leadership through strategic planning, organizational development and management. The workshops also support the effective leadership of local counseling service programs for victims of trauma and their families.

Economic Leadership Building Program supports women entrepreneurs to develop and use new skills to start or grow businesses and women's business associations, thereby fostering an expansion of women's business success. Supported by regional expertise exchanges, Kosovo women's NGO income-generating programs can study lessons from Bosnia about what constitutes success and sustainability, while NGO microcredit providers can learn best practices of enhancing women's access to microcredit.

Over the past months, working in extremely difficult conditions with no electricity and a still politically unstable environment, STAR Network/Kosovo has succeeded in conducting a number of trainings and consultations to women's groups on building facilitation skills and holding post-election trainings for elected municipal assembly members and NGO leaders.

Sevdie Ahmeti, Center for Protection of Women and Children, Prishtina, Kosovo.

Recent Accomplishments

13% increase in number of women-owned businesses in Kosovo
230% increase in number of loans to women by Micro Enterprise Bank, Kosovo
Inclusion of gender requirement in election rules for November 17, 2001
Incorporation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, gender and equal Opportunity into the constitutional framework for provisional self-government in Kosovo
Increase in women's public policy advocacy efforts at national and international levels, driven primarily by Kosovar women's needs and analyses
Increase in organizational capacity of assisted women's NGOs that are in involved in or have the potential for public policy advocacy.

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