Who Cares? Unpaid Care Work in Kosovo
Research on the time men and women spend in unpaid care work, with quantitative and qualitative findings.
Is Coal the Cheapest Solution?
Joint research with Aarhus University studying health externalities of coal-based energy generation in Kosovo.
Continued monitoring Kosovo Assembly sessions for social policies. Published quarterly and annual reports analyzing engagement in social policies.
Continued monitoring Kosovo Assembly sessions for social policies. Published quarterly and annual reports analyzing engagement in social policies.
The report “Hydropower Plants: Private Gains at the Detriment of Public Environment” is published, with research findings and recommendations
The Institute for Social Policy “MusineKokalari” at a press conference has presented the report titled “Hydropower Plants: Private Gains at the Detriment of Public Environment”. This study has been conducted as a part of “Social Impact of Hydropower Plants on Our Society” project, supported by the Community Development Fund – CDF’s Human Rightivism, and funded […]
Perpetual Peace & Social Justice in the Balkans
Ongoing project fostering new social dialogue between Kosovo and Serbia through conferences and public outreach, in cooperation with the University of Belgrade.
Social Policy Monitor 2021
Three publications addressing social issues: Minimum Wage, Unemployed Mothers, and Youth/Women Employment, with critiques of governmental policies.
Social Impact of Hydropower Plants
Researched the environmental and social impact of hydropower plants in Western Kosovo, focusing on permits, citizen involvement, and private investors’ behaviors.
Setting the Ground
A qualitative research project exploring S&D core values like freedom, equality, and solidarity through 11 focus groups. Initially developed for internal use, later prepared for publication due to significant outcomes.
Le Monde Diplomatique – Shqip
As part of a network of thirty-one publication partners around the world, Le Monde Diplomatique in the Albanian language has started its’ first publication in print in September 2019. With a circulation of 1500 copies, the journal was distributed in the main cities of the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Albania.
Second publication was in October 2019 ; Third was a November-December publication 2019 ; Fourth in January 2020 ; Fifth in February 2020 ; Sixth in March 2020 ; Seventh in April 2020; Eighth in May 2020.
From the beginning of this project, the Institute for Social Policy “Musine Kokalari” has established a partnership with the Institute of Social and Human Studies in Tirana, Albania, which is still the main partner in this project.
More than 140 articles of different genres have been drafted and published (research texts, reports, interviews, editorials, etc). Of these, more than 100 are translated texts and 40 are self-produced articles.
We covered topics from Kosovo, Albania, the Western Balkans, but also from around the globe : Homosexuality ; Geopolitics ; Diplomacy ; Trade relations ; E-commerce ; Covid-19 ; Education ; Health ; Religion ; Gender Issues ; Anti-racism ; Workers’ Rights ; Minority Rights ; Discrimination against the Roma Community ; Multilingualism ; Autocracy ; the Fight against Crime and Corruption ; Demography ; Ecology ; Urbanism ; Anti-fascism ; Media ; Philosophy ; Psychology ; Delinquency ; Cinematography ; Literature.
Geographically the topics have covered a wide range of issues from Senegal; Brazil; Sudan; Algeria; Russia; USA; Great Britain; Switzerland; France; Turkey; Canada; Argentina; Serbia; Albania; Macedonia; Kosovo; Bosnia; Croatia; South Africa; Oceania and Israel. Many “Le Monde Diplomatique – Albanian“ texts have been republished in local and regional media.