On April 16th Ambassador Delawie and his team spent the day in Gjakovë/Djakovica and Junik visiting USAID projects and beneficiaries.
It’s asparagus season in Kosovo and USAID is showing its love for this highly-important crop by taking to the airwaves. Mission Director Jim Hope filmed a cooking segment on the popular local TV cooking show Dicka po Zihet (“Something’s Cooking”), putting his cooking skills to the test and showing off asparagus’s flexibility on a spring menu. While he cooked, Hope shared with the TV audience some of the health benefits of asparagus, as well as its growing importance to Kosovo’s agricultural transformation.
For the second year the Transformational Leadership Program Citizens Corps organized a “Volunteer of the Year” awards ceremony. The April 26th event honored the work of Transformational Leadership graduates and recognized the impact of their volunteer work in bringing change to the public, private, and civil society sectors in Kosovo.
On Monday, March 19th, Deputy Chief of Mission Colleen Hyland helped kick off the 6th annual Week of Women. A number of senior officials from the Government of Kosovo and the international community participated throughout the week, as over a hundred women from different generations, political parties, and ethnicities came together from across Kosovo to network and build their leadership, public speaking, and political skills.
On March 20th Kosovo’s Ministry of Economic Development hosted the 3rd Annual High-Level Energy Forum. The event brought together senior-level stakeholders from across government and the private sector to debate and comment on key energy sector opportunities and challenges, with an emphasis on infrastructure investment.
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