Project Summary

The project’s focus is to support joint knowledge and network building between communities in Kosovo to understand, access and uphold their rights through the common interest area of environmental justice, in a gender-responsive manner.

Additionally, the project aims to enhance capacities for horizontal and vertical social cohesion and gender equality, while reducing the risk for inter-community and community-institution conflicts relating to environmental concerns. To achieve this UNDP plans to engage in a cross-community and grassroots knowledge building among women and men, and network building of and with community-based organisations (including women’s rights and/or women-led organisations in targeted communities), to realise their rights.

Outputs/Activities

Output 1: Social Cohesion is strengthened by communities in selected localities having enhanced capacities to understand their environmental rights and collectively mobilise across communal boundaries.

-Activity 1.1: Map existing community-based environmental justice movements including localities at risk of increased environmental tensions.
-Activity 1.2: Conduct conflict-sensitive listening exercises in selected localities and with existing environmental movements.
-Activity 1.3: Capacity development of environmental movements and communities to engage and cooperate across communal boundaries on environmental issues.

Output 2: The human rights and justice institutions are more responsive to communities' demands for environmental justice.

-Activity 2.1: Develop the capacity of Ombudsperson Institution staff on environmental human and women’s rights, and engagement with community-based and women’s movements.
-Activity 2.2: Developing system-wide capacities of justice institutions to promote and implement environmental justice

Output 3: Women are empowered to actively engage in defining measures that respond to their environmental needs which contribute to resilient communities.

-Activity 3.1: Develop an inter-Office gender study on challenges, opportunities and activism related to environmental justice and provide recommendations for civil society and institutions on integrating and supporting these within existing infrastructures for peace and social cohesion programming.

Status:
Completed

Time Frame:
01/06/2023- 31/05/2024

Where:
Kosovo wide

Focus Area:
Environment, Rule of Law
Gender equality and women’s empowerment

Beneficiaries:
Main beneficiaries of the project are individuals, local communities in selected localities, community-led environmental movements. Other stakeholders include human rights and justice institutions.

Partners:
CSOs/NGOs, including women’s rights organizations, Ombudsperson’s Office, Kosovo Judicial Council

Donor(s):
UNDP Funding Windows

Budget:
USD 250,000

Contact: 
Marta K. Gazideda 
Governance and Peacebuilding Portfolio Manager/ Deputy Programme Coordinator
marta.gazideda@undp.org
Tel: +383 38 249 066; 
Mob: +383 49 785 895

Ardian Latifaj
Project Manager
ardian.latifaj@undp.org
+381 38 249 066 (ext. 307)