Projects

Short Description:

Overall goal

To contribute to an improved position of women in the economy and labour market in the Prishtina and Ferizaj Regions.

Expected results

Increased opportunities for employment and self-employment of women through enhanced cooperation with the institutions in the central and local level and other relevant stakeholders in the field; Increased opportunities for employment and self-employment of 230 women by developing their capacities and skills through vocational trainings; 30 new women entrepreneurs benefitted from the business start-ups and capacity development activities; Supported women’s businesses for access to finance and growth opportunities.

Target group / Beneficiaries

This project will benefit young and marginalized women and partially men, with around 545 direct beneficiaries in the regions of Prishtina and Ferizaj. It targets unemployed and unskilled women in the municipalities of Prishtina, Fushë Kosova, Drenas, Graçania, Lipjan, Novobërda, Obiliq, Podujeva, Ferizaj, Hani i Elezit, Kaçanik, Shtërpce and Shtime.

KW4W will cooperate with the Ministry of Finance, Labour and Transfers on employment services and with the Agency for Employment and the Vocational Training Centres on vocational trainings.

Activities

- Organizing meetings and creating solution networks for the mismatch of demand and offer in the labour markets Prishtina and Ferizaj regions;

- Cooperation with businesses for the “on-the-job training” opportunities for the participants of vocational trainings;

- Trainings for 230 women to increase their vocational, soft, business and IT skills as well as their knowledge on access to finance;

- Supporting 30 women entrepreneurs with business start-ups and various types of capacity development activities;

- Supporting up to 200 individual women with small seed money as micro business capital or paid internships;

- Co-financing business and investments ideas of 20 individual or groups of women.

Context

The unemployment rate for women in Kosovo is significantly higher compared to all the countries in the region along with the gap of the unemployment rate between women and men. Challenges for women to join the economy and labor market include missing skills, especially business or computer literacy, limited access to financial resources and mismatch between skills and demands of the local labor markets. In addition, women are under-represented in various services and measures offered by the public employment services.

The project is addressing those challenges on multiple levels and ways in order to eliminate obstacles and create opportunities for employment and self-employment of young and marginalized women.

This is the second phase of the very successful project implemented by KW4W and is extending and largening the measures and interventions.