Kosovo has relatively enlightened free market-oriented economic policy in Balkan area. Nonetheless, many reforms are needed to improve its business environment to stimulate economic development and job creation.

Due to historical and political reasons, there are three sets of policy makers and two sets of implementing agencies that must work together to achieve economic reform. Many areas of economic governance are reserved to the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and the Provisional Institutions of Self Governance (PISG). Thus, many bureaucracies and overlapping were involved in decision making process.

In 2004, SEGURA/IP3 was contracted with the USAID to provide short-term assistance to assist Kosovar NGOs to organize and support a business-based reform initiative. The overall tasks of this project aimed to assist Kosovar business community and NGOs to organize and support a business based reform, linking the constituencies of a variety of reform initiatives in order to work collectively and in a more forceful way.

SEGURA/IP3 provided technical assistance for the first phase of the Collective Reform Initiative to assist the local Kosovar organizations in designing and implementing an advocacy campaign leading to reforms in support of Kosovar private sector development. Specifically, two senior coordinators who worked with RIINVEST (local NGO think tank) and the Alliance of Kosovar Businessmen (AKB), assisted the community in organizing a steering committee for the advocacy effort and promoting the concept.

Contact Information:

Jorge Segura
Managing Partner
SEGURA Consulting LLC
Tel. (301) 469-4724

js@segura-co.net