Strenghtening Civil Society Networks in Kosovo

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Welcome

• Strenghtening Civil Society Networks in Kosovo

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• Some considerations for organizing and financing
  quality public education in Kosovo

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AIM

• to improve access to pre-school and compulsory
  education for children from disadvantaged groups,
  including children from low income families,
  disabled, minorities, and so on

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Connection with activities in the project

• Build capacity of partner organizations to
  advocate and engage in policy analyses and
  formulation with central and local authorities by
  providing an appropriate training
• Community-based Parent Education programs to
  promote childrens ability to make choices,
  accept responsibility, respect differences.

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Disadvantaged groups

• exercise

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KEY MESSAGES

• Diversity matters
• Institutions matter
• Decentralization matters
• Public management approach matters

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DIVERSITY MATTERS

• NEEDS RELATED TO VARIOUS ASPECTS OF DIVERSITY
• AGE
• GENDER
• CULTURE
• LANGUAGE
• RELIGION
• SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS
• EDUCATION

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• IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE EQUITY IN PUBLIC EDUCATION,
• ASPECTS OF DIVERSITY SHOULD BE TAKEN INTO ACOUNT
• DIFFERENCES IN
• NEEDS,
• ACCESS,
• IMPACT

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INSTITUTIONS MATTER

• ETHNIC IDENTITIES AND LOYALITIES ARE NOT
  CONSTANS
• THEY ARE SUBJECTS TO DYNAMIC FORMATION AND
  REFRMATION
• MAY OFTEN BE AS MUCH STATE-CUED AS THEY ARE IN
  ANY SENSE INHERENT (RELATIONAL NATURE)
• INTERGVT. INSTITUTIONS HAS TO BE MADE ACCOUNTABLE
  AND ACCESSIBLE

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DECENTRALIZATION MATTERS
CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
VOICE MONEY
SERVICES
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
CITIZEN
VOICE MONEY
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DECENTRALIZATION MATTERS

• Optimized structure to reflect differences and
  adjust size, scale, etc
• Potential for local preference, service mix,
  adjustment to capacity
• System that allows community and individual
  preferences
• Task package and package of tasks
• Intergovernmental finance capacity, regulation
  of flows, equity, etc

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DECENTRALIZATION

• EDUCATION POLICY
• arena for cooperation and mitigation of interests

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PUBLIC MANAGEMENT APPROACH MATTERS

• Service delivery framework - Government, citizen
  provider relations
• Regulation
• Financing
• Organizational scheme
• Performance and accountability framework

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PUBLIC MANAGEMENT APPROACH MATTERS
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PUBLIC MANAGEMENT APPROACH MATTERS

• Definition of institutions - organizations,
  procedures, schemes etc,
• Specific services
• Representation is not only through voting, but
  choice, contribution, etc
• Equal opportunity can mean various needs - equal
  access or equal opportunity?
• Potential for rationalized consumption according
  to priority and demand
• Organizations and mode of operation
• Impact of organization, delivery mode, pricing,
  subsidy, etc
• Impact of institutions that create context for
  service delivery, like
• Regulation, financing, ect
• freedom in selecting operational modes and
  delivery options

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BALANCED MANAGEMENT OF DIVERSITY

• In order to give opportunity to all, not to leave
  behind any
• Division, inequality, conflict result in loss
• Loss in aggregate outputs
• Exclusion of assets, sometimes the best,
• Criteria that are external to choice leads to
  suboptimal solutions
• Parallel institutions and artificial borders, ect

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ROLES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN SERVICE DELIVERY

• Policy, regulation and standards
• Provision
• Financing
• Social assistance
• Ownership

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Thank you!

• Petra Kovacs kovacsp_at_osi.hu
• Trainer
• LGI Mananging Multiethnic Communities Program
  (MMCP)
• http//lgi.osi.hu/documents.php?m_id104