The Executive Director of the Kosovo Local Government Institute, Mr Besnik Tahiri, is taking part in the international conference on local self-government in the Republic of Macedonia. The conference is organised by the…
Clientelism is a worrying phenomenon for local and central government in Kosovo. Indeed, in some cases it can be described as more dangerous than corruption for the normal functioning of the state. This was stressed by…
The Minister of Municipal Affairs of the Kingdom of Jordan, Walid Al-Masri, during a study visit to Kosovo, became directly acquainted with the functioning of municipalities in our country, as the Jordanian state is in…
The Austrian Chamber of Commerce in Kosovo, the Kosovo Local Government Institute, UBT College and the Municipality of Lipjan organised a conference addressing five dimensions of the use of municipal land: (Housing …
Under the coordination of Mr Besnik Tahiri, Executive Director of the Kosovo Local Government Institute, and Mr Gunther Fehlinger, head of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce in Kosovo, a delegation of senior municipal…
During its first module, the Forum for Development and Strategic Policies (PDS) is addressing a considerable number of topics focusing on the modernisation of public management, good governance, leadership versus…
Administrative-territorial reform is an important step in the integration process of the Republic of Albania. Meanwhile, the associations in the Republic of Albania – Shoqatat, or Asociacionet as we call them – must…
As part of the Local Governance Academy programme, separate meetings were held in Skopje, Macedonia, with the Minister of Local Self-Government, Mr Lirim Shabani, and the Executive Director of the Association of the…
Senior municipal officials taking part in the Local Governance Academy training programme held separate meetings at central and local institutions in the Republic of Albania; more specifically, in discussions with Mr…
The Kosovo Local Government Institute (KLGI) held its Annual Conference on local governance, at which the outlook for local governance was set out in the following dimensions: • The necessity of strengthening the local…
Since the agreement on establishing the Association/Community of Serb-majority Municipalities (A/CSM) was reached, a highly contradictory debate has continued to unfold between and within both countries among political…
The main finding of the conference “Association/Community – two names, two purposes” was that the A/CSM should not have executive competences because this would conflict with the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo.…
