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TACSO Strategic Mentoring Learning Workshop

Posted on 20/10/202218/02/2023 by Milutin

In the framework of the EU-funded Technical Assistance to Civil Society Organisations in Western Balkans and Turkey (EU TACSO 3) project, we were invited to participate in the Strategic Mentoring Learning Workshop held on 19 – 20 October 2022 in Pristina, Kosovo.

The Strategic Mentoring Learning Workshop was envisaged as a regional-level activity aiming to consolidate learning from the EU TACSO 3 experience of this capacity development process so far and to provide practical guidance for future activities to the EU TACSO team and other actors involved.

The workshop was organised for 20 representatives of CSOs and CSO networks from the Western Balkans and Turkey who participated in the mentoring process as beneficiaries. DPNSEE President Nebojša Đurasović and Executive Director Milutin Milošević were among participants.

The workshop lasted 1,5 days during which participants have discussed expectations, experiences and learning insights of the strategic mentoring process. The final output of the workshop is a list of recommendations for future similar capacity-building interventions.

The event also presented a networking opportunity since participants represented supported organisations from the region. DG NEAR representatives also participated in the event.

Support. Don’t Punish finally in Kosovo

Posted on 07/07/201910/07/2019 by Milutin

Kosovo* finally joined the Support. Don’t Punish campaign in 2019. Activities were organised on the Global Day of Action in Pristina by Qendra për Informim dhe Përmirësim Social – QIPS (The Centre for Information and Social Improvement), a Kosovo-based NGO, working to improve the wellbeing of people in need and raising awareness for problems hidden by stigma. DPNSEE member organisation Labyrinth joined the campaign.

During the day, a march in the city centre was organised, all the way to the government building. It was followed by marketing on social media for the event, printing and designing banners and making props to place in front of the government building.

Posters were designed and posted around the city during the early morning, while leaflets were distributed during the day.

In the evening, the documentary „How to make money selling drugs“ was projected in the Termokiss, a community-run centre in Prishtina with the mission of urban and civil exchange, reflection and change making.

INCB mission to Kosovo

Posted on 04/07/201922/07/2019 by Milutin

From 23 to 27 June 2019, The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) conducted a mission to Pristina, Kosovo to review the drug control situation there with a view of facilitating access to controlled substances while preventing their diversion.

INCB is an independent, quasi-judicial expert body established by the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 for monitoring member states’ implementation of the UN drug control treaties. It has 13 members, each elected by the Economic and Social Council for a period of five years.

The mission was led by Ambassador (ret.) David Johnson, Member of the Board, supported by Mr. Nodirjon Ibragimov of the INCB secretariat. The mission was facilitated by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMiK).

The delegation met with the representatives of Kosovo agencies involved in pharmaceutical regulation; the administration of justice, including prosecutorial services and the judiciary; law-enforcement, customs and forensics; and public health, addiction treatment and rehabilitation.

The INCB delegation also met with leaders of the international community supporting local institutions, including the EU Office in Pristina, EULEX, the OSCE Mission, UNDP, UNODC, and UNMiK. In addition, meetings were held with officials from the NGO “Labyrinth”, a DPNSEE member organisation, which provides opioid substitution treatment and other elements of a comprehensive treatment and reintegration programme and with the leader of the NGO Community Development Fund, which supports “Labyrinth”.