Support to ethnic minorities in North Kosovo Stöd till etniska minoriteter i norra Kosovo Projektet som Danish Refugee Council, DRC, planerar syftar till att bidra till förbättrade möjligheter till hållbara inkomster genom bland annat anständig sysselsättning för utsatta människor från etniska minoritetsgrupper. Detta inkluderar att erbjuda minoritetsgrupper att skaffa sig färdigheter som banar väg för anställningar eller eget företagande. Mer direkt föreställer sig DRC att de vid slutet av insatsen kommer att ha uppnått några konkreta mål, uttryckta i kvantitativa termer, utvecklingsledd sysselsättning och skapande av egenföretagande från den privata sektorn, bland ungdomar, kvinnor och minoritetsgrupper.
Dessutom ska insatsen bidra till ökad medvetenhet om etniska minoriteters problem och utmaningar inom det bredare samhället i Kosovo. Detta syftar på att övervinna "osynlighetens partiskhet" då etniska minoritetsbefolkningar har få framträdanden i offentlig debatt. DRC strävar också efter att bidra till ökad medvetenhet genom att stödja Kosovos civilsamhälle som syftar till att förespråka etniska minoriteters rättigheter och intressen. Detta inkluderar att stödja icke-statliga organisationer i deras aktiviteter, kampanjer och program för att minoritetsgrupper ska kunna höras mer vid offentliga tillfällen. DRC project aims at contributing to improved income generation opportunities and decent employment for vulnerable people from ethnic minority communities. This includes providing income generating opportunities for ethnic minorities and for target minority community members to gain skills paving the way for employment/self-employment. More directly, DRC envisions that by the end of the intervention it will have achieved some tangible objectives, expressed in quantitative terms.private sector development-led employment and self-employment creation, amongst youth, women and minority communities.
Additionally, DRC will contribute to improved awareness on ethnic minority problems and challenges within broader Kosovo society. In essence, this refers to overcoming the “bias of invisibility” in where the challenges and problems of ethnic minority populations receive little salience in public debate and consciousness. DRC seeks to contribute to increased awareness through supporting Kosovo’s civil sector that aims at advocating for ethnic minority rights and interests. This includes supporting NGOs in their activities, campaigns and programmes aimed at increasing salience. The contribution overall objective is: Members of minority communities (with a focus on Roma) and other vulnerable groups in Kosovo are empowered and included into the socio-economic life of the country. 

DRC has a variety of outcomes that derive from the overall objective and those are divided into sub-objectives and goals which it will aim to achieve. All interventions by DRC are guided by the main objective and remain the guiding goal of their work.

The proposal is further divided into three outcomes: 

1. Improved access to income generation opportunities and decent employment for minority communities and other vulnerable groups, with less dependency on negative coping mechanisms. 

The first outcome is to contribute to improved income generation opportunities and decent employment for vulnerable people from ethnic minority communities. This includes providing income generating opportunities for ethnic minorities and for target minority community members to gain skills paving the way for employment/self-employment. More directly, DRC envisions that by the end of the intervention it will have achieved some tangible objectives, expressed in quantitative terms. These include:

At least 75% of women and men from target ethnic minority communities report increase of their household incomes by at least 20% within the first one year after their involvement in income generating interventions. 75% of women and men from target ethnic minority communities report decent working conditions for the work created through the intervention. At least 400 women and men from target minority ethnic communities received opportunities to get involved in supported value chains through employment or self-employment. 180 women and men from target ethnic minority communities obtained skills in basic literacy and numeracy. At least 40 women and men from target ethnic minority communities gained professional skills.

DRC envisions that this can be achieved through support value chains and identifying synergies and entry points for target ethnic community members to enter into existing market relations. Here DRC also aims to reach an objective of supporting local entrepreneurs engaged in selected value chains and developing their businesses. DRC thus aim to achieve:

The support of at least five value chains in engaging vulnerable people from ethnic minority communities. At least 50% of supported businesses reported an expanded client network and/or market opportunities. At least 50% of supported businesses reported annual revenue increases. At least 40 new or improved jobs were created by supported businesses, including for members from target ethnic minority communities.

2. Enhanced access to rights for ethnic minority and other vulnerable groups, and improved awareness within Kosovo society on the challenges they face.

The second objective is to contribute to improved awareness on ethnic minority problems and challenges within broader Kosovo society. In essence, this refers to overcoming the bias of invisibility in where the challenges and problems of ethnic minority populations receive little salience in public debate and consciousness. DRC seeks to contribute to increased awareness through supporting Kosovos civil sector that aims at advocating for ethnic minority rights and interests. This includes supporting NGOs in their activities, campaigns and programmes aimed at increasing salience.

In quantitative terms, DRC frames these objectives as:

Awareness raising will be an objective that 75% of ethnic majority residents of target communities report improved awareness of ethnic minority challenges. This will be done by supporting at least 9 local NGO projects targeting at least 4000 girls, boys, women and men aimed at assisting representatives of ethic minorities. At least 3 local NGO projects will be dedicated to advocate for rights of ethnic minority communities, and at least 8 position papers will be published in order to raise awareness and make ethnic minority community rights and challenges more salient in public discourse.

3. Improved intra-community cohesion and inter-community relations focussing on the root causes of tensions.

The third objective seeks to contribute to reduced tensions between members of different ethnic communities. In essence a peacebuilding initiative, DRC will aim to involve youth from multi-ethnically populated areas of Kosovo to promote a culture of mutual tolerance, build linkages and networks between people from the different communities. By building these webs of interaction and networks, DRCs objective is to problematize inter-ethnic prejudices which have represented barriers for integration and a peaceful and inclusive Kosovo for all.

DRC will measure these objectives in the following quantitative terms:

At least 75% of targeted boys and girls report positive attitude towards people of different ethnicities as well as at least 75% demonstrating the building of new inter-ethnic linkages during the course of the intervention. At least 80 young women and men are involved in peacebuilding dialogue as well as youth driven projects assisting 2000 people in the field of peacebuilding and reconciliation. On top of that, DRC aims to train at least 80 young women and men in conflict management.