ECMI Kosovo brings community knowledge, legal and policy expertise, and practical programme experience to cooperation with others. Over the years, donors and partners have supported work ranging from legal protections and institutional development to education, livelihoods, health and access to public services.

Support over the years

Our work has received support from national governments, European and international institutions, United Nations agencies and civil-society funding programmes. The following selection reflects that cooperation across different periods.

Public donors and bilateral cooperation

  • United States — USAID and the U.S. Embassy / Department of State
  • United Kingdom
  • Norway
  • Switzerland
  • Finland
  • Germany — including cooperation with GIZ
  • Sweden — through the Community Development Fund
  • Netherlands
  • Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs — through Poradna
  • Kosovo’s education ministry and Office of the Language Commissioner

European and international institutions

  • European Union
  • World Bank — through ATRC
  • OSCE and the High Commissioner on National Minorities
  • Council of Europe
  • Kosovo Specialist Chambers

United Nations

  • UNICEF
  • International Organization for Migration (IOM)
  • UN Women and the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
  • United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  • United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
  • United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)

Funding arrangements take different forms. They include Sweden’s support through the Community Development Fund, British and Swiss embassy support through IOM, and World Bank State and Peacebuilding Fund support through ATRC. Our annual funding table sets out the yearly figures and documented funding relationships.

Partnerships in practice

ERAC: a coalition led by ECMI Kosovo

The Equal Rights for All Coalition brought together ECMI Kosovo, the Youth Initiative for Human Rights Kosovo (YIHR), the Kosovar Gender Studies Center (KGSC), the Center for Equality and Liberty (CEL), Kosovo 2.0 through Kosovo Glocal, the Center for Legal Aid and Regional Development (CLARD), and the Center for Social Group Development (CSGD). ECMI coordinated the project, while partners contributed their specialist research, community relationships and advocacy. Each organisation’s authorship and contribution remain part of the account.

HumanRightivism: community-based rights assistance

Through HumanRightivism, funded by Sweden and managed by the Community Development Fund, ECMI combined community-based paralegal assistance, rights awareness and engagement with public institutions. This cooperation connected people facing everyday barriers with legal information, practical help and routes for institutional response.

PIAKOS: property, inheritance and services

In PIAKOS, World Bank State and Peacebuilding Fund support through ATRC enabled ECMI to bring property-registration, inheritance and service-access questions into community discussions and university workshops. The work connected legal information with the problems people encounter in dealing with property and public administration.

UN Trust Fund: women’s safety and community-based support

The United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women supported ECMI’s 2014–2015 programme with minority women, working with AKTIV, the Network of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian Women’s Organisations of Kosovo, and CLARD. Community-based assistance and prevention went alongside stronger skills for safe, confidential case work.

CARES: cooperation across borders

Our CARES partnership with FORS Montenegro linked research, community outreach and health-service support in Kosovo and Montenegro. FORS led the cross-border partnership, with ECMI implementing the Kosovo activities. European Union support through the IPA Cross-Border Cooperation Programme helped address barriers to reproductive-health services, particularly for socially vulnerable women.

Migrant workers: institutional and local cooperation

Cooperation with GIZ, on behalf of BMZ through the Shaping Development-Oriented Migration programme, combined training for institutions, civil-society support and guidance on migrant workers’ rights. The Youth Association for Human Rights (YAHR) contributed local research and dialogue in Lipjan through the support programme. Our migration-governance account explains how these strands connected.

PAX: research and policy dialogue

ECMI Kosovo produced The Association/Community of Serb-Majority Municipalities: Breaking the Impasse with support from PAX. The report brought legal analysis, comparative experience and policy dialogue into a practical proposal on a difficult institutional question.

Working with public institutions

Our institutional cooperation connects community concerns with the bodies able to act: ministries, municipalities, the Office of the Language Commissioner, the Consultative Council for Communities, the Office for Community Affairs, education institutions and legal-assistance services. Across language rights, participation, education and civil documentation, ECMI contributes research, legal expertise, dialogue and practical support to implementation.