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UN-Habitat, MESP and KIPA officially sealed collaboration for anchoring MuSPP training modules into KIPA training programme

Today at the offices of the Kosovo Institute of Public Administration (KIPA), Ms. Refike Sülçevsi, Executive Director of the Kosovo Institute for Public Administration (KIPA), Mr. Arben Çitaku, Secretary General of the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning (MESP) and Ms. Gwendoline Mennetrier, Chief Technical Adviser of the UN-Habitat office in Kosovo, signed a Memorandum of Understanding, providing a framework of cooperation for anchorage  of the MuSPP  Sustainability Toolbox within a domestic institution, with the aim to diversify KIPA training offer and respond to needs widely identified in Kosovo municipalities and pertinent central institutions. MuSPP Toolbox contains four modules: Public Participation in Spatial Planning, Drafting Municipal Development Plans, Drafting Strategic Environmental Assessments, and Managing Capital Investment Projects.

Through this memorandum all three parties agreed to cooperate closely in the transferring process of MuSPP/UN-Habitat training modules into the training programme of KIPA. The main results expected from this collaboration are: institutionalization of MuSPP Toolbox; review and endorsement of training modules by a joint Evaluation Committee; certification of MuSPP trainers as KIPA trainers; registration of the training modules and certified trainers into the programme/database of KIPA.

The representatives of KIPA, Ms. Refike Sulçevsi and Mr. Enver Haxhijaj (the Director of Trainings) also stressed the necessity for intensive cooperation during the implementation phase of this MoU, due the fact the four MuSPP training modules are something new and innovative, both for potential participants of these trainings and KIPA itself. All parties agreed on the complexity and multi-disciplinary character of these modules, hence emphasising the need and rationale of having these modules available for civil servants, officials and professionals operating in the field of Spatial Planning. At the end, commitment was made by all parties to closely work together in order to meet the set objectives and lay the foundations for future cooperation.

 

 

 

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