Regional Conference: Enhancing the Right to the City for All by Improving Public Space and Urban Safety in the Balkans

07 December 2017

On 6-7 December 2017, UN-Habitat and UN Women jointly hosted a regional conference on ‘Enhancing the Right to the City for All by improving Public Space and Urban Safety’ in Skopje, Macedonia. The conference provided participants with the opportunity to showcase regional and international best practices, and to discuss improving public space and urban safety in the Balkans, with a particular focus on women and girls. Participants emphasized the urgent need for holistic, integrated and gender-sensitive approaches to urban safety and to public space design, planning, and management.click here for more information

TAKING STOCK AND PROGRAMMING TOGETHER WITH THE NORTHERN MUNICIPALITIES, LEPOSAVIC, MITROVICA NORTH, ZUBIN POTOK AND ZVECAN

24 November 2017

During the third week of November 2017,framed within the Inclusive Development Programme and facilitated by UN-Habitat and Community Building Mitrovica, a programmatic workshop was held with the participation of more than thirty-five representatives from the partner municipalities of Leposavic, Mitrovica North, ZubinPotok and Zvecan, as well as the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning (MESP) and Ministry of Local Government Administration (MLGA).click here for more information

From baseline assessment towards programming together the support for Skenderaj / Srbica and Vushtrri / Vucitrn

15 September 2017

Last week, on 10-14 September, 2017, were held in Durrës the programmatic workshops for two partner municipalities (Skenderaj/ Srbica and Vushtrri/ Vucitrn) of the Inclusive Development Programme. The main purpose of the workshops was to familiarize various municipal officials from diverse departments with the importance of spatial planning and their respective roles, especially when it comes to the drafting and implementation of various planning documents. More specifically these workshops aimed at making all participants further acquainted with the objectives of the Inclusive Development Programme and respective components tailored to their needs and to be supported by UN-Habitat, PAX and CBM, as well as getting commitment by all respective stakeholders to devote and take responsibility during development and implementation of working plans for these components.click here for more information

Inclusive Development Programme Pre-visioning Workshop

30 June 2017

On the 30th of June, 2017, a pre-visioning workshop was held for all Inclusive Development Programme partners. The purpose of the workshop was to share and exchange experiences on the visioning tool and methodology, ahead of future implementation of this method in the seven partner municipalities: Leposavic/Leposaviq, Mitrovica South, Mitrovica North, Zubin Potok, Zvecan, Skenderaj/Srbica and Vushtrri/Vucitrn.click here for more information

Inclusive Development Programme: Cartographic Documentation Workshops Completed

08 June 2017

During the first week of June, 2017, UN-Habitat delivered a series of cartographic documentation workshops for central level and municipal staff from the four Serb-majority municipalities of Zvecan, Zubin Potok, Leposavic and Mitrovica North. The workshops are part of the Inclusive Development Programme , an initiative implemented by UN-Habitat and its partner agencies, PAX and Community Building Mitrovica (CBM), in seven municipalities.click here for more information

GIS Training Delivered for Municipal Planning Teams in north Kosovo

30 May 2017

At the end of May, 2017, UN-Habitat delivered one-day Geographic Information System (GIS) training in partnership with the Institute of Spatial Planning of the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning (MESP). The WebGIS (geo-portal) and QGIS introductory training was held on the 30th of May and given by a GIS expert from MESP. The training was delivered within the framework of the Inclusive Development Programme a four-year programme jointly implemented by UN-Habitat, PAX and Community Building Mitrovica (CBM). click here for more information

Municipal Profile and Gender in northern Municipalities

03 March 2017

The beginning of March was marked with a number of successful bilateral and focus groups meetings, as part of planned activities regarding the 'Gender Analysis' specific to the North Kosovo. These activities fall under the programme ''Fostering inclusive development and good governance in northern Kosovo'' co-implemented by UN-Habitat and PAX/ Community Building Mitrovica.click here for more information

Zvecan, Leposavic and Zubin Potok Municipalities officially embarked in the Inclusive Development Programme!

02 February 2017

On Thursday, 26th January 2017, in two northern municipalities Memoranda of Understanding were signed between respectively Mayor of Zvecan - Mr. Vucina Jankovic, Mayor of Leposavic - Mr. Dragan Jablanovic, and Ms. Gwendoline Mennetrier- Chief Technical Adviser for UN-Habitat along with Michael James Warren - Programme Manager for PAX. Signing of a third Memorandum of Understanding took place on Tuesday, 2nd February 2017, with the Deputy Mayor of Zubin Potok - Mr. Srdjan Vucinic, on behalf of the Mayor of Zubin Potok. All ceremonies took place in respective Mayors' offices with the participation of the partner organization -Community Building Mitrovica.click here for more information