On 26^th of April 2007, municipality of Gjakova/Djakovica, Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning (MESP), the Association of Municipalities of Kosova, OSCE and UN-HABITAT, organized a joint workshop on Informal Settlements in Gjakova/ Djakovica.

The purpose of the field-workshop was to contribute to the drafting of local and central policies within the action plan on Informal Settlements; discuss ways how the Urban Plan can be used as a tool to prevent new informal settlements and improve the existing ones. The workshop contributed to the development of a network for studying Informal Settlements, as well as raising awareness.

The workshop contributed to the formulation of the series of recommendations concerning: Institutional capacity building is needed to deal with the informal settlements; property issues needs to be solved; real stakeholders to be identified and involved in the process  thus a detailed action plan is needed which will determine short and long term interventions. Collaboration between institutions and local community living in the informal settlements should be inevitable. Funding must be visible and donors should be identified, but municipality should allocate funds too.