gender experts-summary
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Is from Gjakova. Amir’s areas of expertise include: Advocacy/Lobbying for public policies; Youth in post-conflict; International human rights - standards and mechanisms; Human rights of women – equal opportunities; Development of health systems and policies with an emphasis on critical assessment of current and future policy options and issues;
2. PhD. Anton Berishaj -
Lives in Prishtina. Anton’s areas of expertise in gender studies with works on “Position of women in Kosovo”, Evaluation of satisfaction level within communities; media; “Position of Women in per-war Kosovo”, “Children at work and on the street”,
3. Ariana Qosaj-Mustafa -
Is from Prishtina. Ariana’s areas of expertise include: Human rights/women’s rights and gender-based violence with over 5 years experience in the field of international law. Specific areas of practice include human rights, protection of vulnerable groups i.e. women, children, anti-trafficking, legislative reform, gender equality and institutional capacity-building.
4. Arijeta Rexhaj -
Is from Peja. Arjeta’s areas of expertise include: Political and social lobby in promoting women’s rights in general. Arjeta is Qualified Trainer for Gender Equality with extraordinary skills to become a distinguished trainer throughout Kosovo
5. Arijeta Himaduna -
Lives in Prishtina. Arjeta’s areas of expertise include. Planning and development of projects in the field of education and ability in implementation and evaluation of projects, writing skills and many other organizational skills.
6. Behar Selimi -
Is from Prizren. Behar’s areas of expertise include: legal issues and public administration, public relations, leadership and management. Behar serves as Head of Kosovo Police Administration Support Services Department and currently is Deputy Police Commissioner Recourse Management in Kosovo Police Service.
7. Biserka Ivanovic -
Is born in Split. Biserka’s main area of expertise is gender with experience trainings for Kosovo Serb municipal assembly officials on gender issues, applicable legislation in Kosovo explaining needs for the establishment of Gender Equality Committees on the political level in respective municipalities. She also worked on research with women activists for Prishtina Gender Studies Centre publication about women’s movement in Kosovo from 80’s.
8. Besim Kajtazi -
Is from Prishtina. Besim’s areas of expertise include: Gender Equality, Legislation preparation and management. Besim is Qualified Trainer for Gender Equality.
9. Elita Reshtani -
Is from Prizren and her main working areas are: Return & Repatriation of internally displaced persons from Serbia, Montenegro & Macedonia with Danish Refugee Council. She worked as manager of the NGO Women and Children Rights in Prizren. She also worked for German NGO ASB as Social Mobilization Officer. Her professional fields of interest are: Financial Management, Managerial Accounting; Project Cycle Management and Basic Financial Management
10. Florija Macula -
Lives in Prishtina. Florija’s areas of expertise are gender related issues: She also developed the program for Mitrovica area, provided technical advice of the implementation of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) - Kosovo Women’s Initiative (KWI) program. For the moment she is working with UNIFEM office
11. Florije Pagarusha -
Is from Peja. Florije’s areas of expertise include: Training in Gender Issues; Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality. Florije possess excellent communication and inter-personal skills, ability to work as individual or in group; ability to work independently, offering psychological social support
12. Gjylfidane Morina -
Is from Peja. Gjylfidane serves as field officer for Danish Refugee Council where she is responsible to implement and support the activities in the field as well as monitoring the processes, ensuring that the process of empowerment among the beneficiaries took place. Gjylfidane without any doubt transmitted the process of program towards the establishment of the independent Kosovo Housewife Association.
13. Igballe Rogova -
Is from Prishtina. Igballe’s areas of expertise include: women’s rights advocate, capacity building of local women’s groups and community based education with girls and local women’s groups in villages. She is known for the skills on: Program development, project and program management, staff management, fund raising, public relations.
14. PhD. Justina Shiroka – Pula -
Lives in Prishtina. Justina is a professor in Prishtian University, Faculty of Econoics. She worked as Head of Mathematics and Statistics Departmetn at Economics Faculty at Prishtina, Head of Board of Directors with Kosovo Civil Society Fund (KCSF)and lectured on Health Management;
Justina recently is chosen a Minister of Energy and Mining.
15. Linda Gusia -
Is from Prishtina. Linda’s areas of expertise are gender related issues while she serves as Lecturer “Gender studies” and “Nation and Nationalism” in the Faculty of Sociology and Philosophy of Prishtina University
16. Luljeta Krasniqi -
Is from Prishtina. Luljeta’s in the legal office of Special Representative of Secretary General (SRSG) with UNMIK. She earned MA for faculty of Philology, Prishtina University. She is part of editorial staff with “SFINGA” – Cultural Women’s Journal. Luljeta is trained on gender related issues.
17. Mimoza Kozhani -
Comes from Lipjan. Mimoza’s areas of expertise include” Non-governmental, Governmental (US) agencies combining language and translation services, protocol, administration and customer service, training management, training coordination, project and event management, marketing, training material preparation, election operations, and data entry.
18. Mirlinda Kusari -
Is from Gjakova. Mirlinda’s areas of expertise include: Economic empowerment of women in Kosova. She is known for leading first and major study into activities of women entrepreneurs in Kosovo in 2006. Mirlinda also has two Publications in her professional engagement first was “Gender Budget Analysis and the Impact of Fiscal Policies on the Poverty Level of Rural Women in the Municipality of Gjakova” and second being “Study and Research of Kosovo Women Entrepreneurs”.
19. Nesrete Zeka -
Is from Gjakova. Nesrete’s areas of expertise include: Professional Psychosocial and Expert on trauma. Nesrete possess other skills such as management and coordination skills and excellent communication and interpersonal abilities. She also did professional trainings on treating war trauma with local NGOs from the village of Gllogjan in Gjakova municipality, it is known as mostly affected village in Dukagjini area.
20. Nita Luci -
Is from Prishtina. Nita’s areas of expertise include: Anthropology, European Studies and Political Science, especially gender related issues. Nita did researches, attended many conferences and seminars where all her knowledge gained either academically or through informal education she managed to utilize it and transform them in a very applicable way in her every day work and life. Nita currently lectures in the Faculty of Philosophy in University of Prishtina and Faik Konica, Journalism School in Prishtina. Nita also taught in the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Department of Anthropology as Primary Instructor
21. Valёza Oruqi -
Lives in Prishtina and is a lawyer by profession. Valёza currently works as legal assistant for OSCE Mission in Kosovo, Department of Human Rights and Rule of Law. Valëza is very much dedicated to the report writing on different issues regarding legal issues.
22. Veprore Shehu -
Is from Gjakova. Veprore’s areas of expertise include: providing psychosocial, medical and legal support to war traumatized women and girls, focused on the support of rape survivors and lobbying politically and socially for promotion of women’s rights in general and the rights of women rape survivors in particular.
23. Violeta Selimi -
Is from Prishtina.Violeta’s areas of interest include: Coordinating catch-up class program Kosovo wide, Helping Roma, Ashkalija and Egyptian (RAE) children in Kosovo who have not completed their primary school and Working in close cooperation with OMiK Democratization Department to support the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST).
24. Visare Gorani – Gashi -
Is from Prishtina. By profession Visare’is economist but through different trainings she has developed interest on gender relating issues. Visare participated in different trainings such as: Gender Equality BPRM/Regional Gender Strategy Workshop; Sub-Regional Peace-Building Program Workshop; Conflict Prevention and Recovery Practice Workshop; Professional training - Designing and Managing Projects; Professional training in Designing Project Proposals with Participation; School for European Integration; Gender Equality – qualified Gender Trainer and Applying Tools for Gender Mainstreaming- Implementation of the UN SC Resolution 1325.
25. Xheraldina Vula -
Lives in Prishtina. Xheraldina’ is Deputy Director in Radio Television 21 in Prishtina. Xheralinda is known throughout Kosovo as an expert on gender and media, Co-training on Why Gender matters to Media and Training Women on “How to facilitate/ moderate etc. Xheralinda is known throughout Kosovo as an expert on gender and media, therefore she has been listed in our gender expert.
26. Zejnete Dylatahu -
Is from Gjakova. Zejnete’s areas of expertise include: Psychosocial Counseling, Coordinator of Psychosocial Department & Psychosocial Counselor and Professional psychosocial counseling for war traumatized women, Identification of traumatic symptoms, Behavior between psychic and physical borders.
27. Dren Zeka -
Is from Peja. Dreni-s areas of expertise include; Capacity building, advocacy, lobbing and human rights.
Is from Peja. Gazmir-s areas of expertise include; NGO Capacity building, project proposal writing and conflict management.
Is from Prishtina. Kreshnik-s area of expertise include; media and communication.