Civil society organisations at ECMI Kosovo’s grant implementation workshop on 28 October 2025.
Four civil society organisations completed projects on migrant workers’ rights with grants and mentoring from ECMI Kosovo. The grants supported direct assistance, documented workers’ concerns and brought those concerns to public institutions.
What the organisations delivered
- OPEA Bardha combined practical Albanian lessons with wellbeing support for Filipino migrant workers.
- Humanus Vita explored migrant women’s experiences in domestic and care work. It produced an advocacy plan and a media series.
- Jesuit Refugee Service Kosovo mapped stakeholders, convened a national roundtable and produced MigraTalks episodes.
- Youth Association for Human Rights researched working conditions in Lipjan and presented its findings to local stakeholders.
ECMI Kosovo began with civil society training on labour rights, outreach and advocacy in June 2025, followed by a grant call that has since closed. At the 28–29 October implementation workshop, grantees worked through coordination, reporting and documentation. ECMI Kosovo followed progress through mentoring and regular reports and held a January 2026 session to review what the projects had learned. The wider project concluded on 31 March 2026.
ECMI Kosovo implemented Strengthening Migration Governance and Civil Society Capacities in Kosovo with support from GIZ Kosovo on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).