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of self-exclusion, whereby some groups have lost the will to seize opportunities for dialogue and participation. To create a genuine momentum for change, the report recommends concrete actions that are not only necessary, but should be well within the capacities of the new administration: • Institute high-level leadership on social inclusion, including setting a timeframe for creation of a Kosovo Development Strategy. This is essential to promote internal coherence and cooperation on social policies; • Refocus on implementation of its policies, introducing accountability, a stronger evidence-base and targeted budgeting into its processes; • Introduce responsiveness into the decentralization process, allowing sector-specific remedial action for the most urgent examples of exclusion; • Institute a public consultation process into policy design and formulation that specifically reaches out to excluded groups and makes extra effort to account for self-exclusion; • Launch a national campaign in support of social cohesion, under high-level leadership, to challenge damaging and discriminatory social norms and give excluded communities and the broader majority 14 | KOSOVO HUMAN DEVELOPMENT REPORT 2010 the opportunity to speak, form alliances and understand their common interests; • Strengthen an inclusive labour market, not only through job creation and rural reform but also by aligning the education system to labour market needs and creating job-seeker and adult education schemes; • Foster self-reliance through retargeting Kosovo’s social assistance programme to reach the poorest, linking unemployment and child benefits where possible to povertyalleviation approaches (for example, linking child benefits for older children to school attendance) as re-formulating social transfers to reduce inequalities across regions; Above all, Kosovo’s youth-heavy demography puts it in a unique and enviable position. Kosovan youth, particularly its young women, can be supported and promoted as the drivers of an inclusive society. An energetic, technologically literate and ambitious generation needs to be connected to outlets for economic enterprise and political activism. Given the chance, this group of nearly one million is ready to step over cultural and ethnic divides that have kept Kosovo far beneath its potential for too long. They are the true stakeholders in Kosovo’s future. They have the most to gain from the opportunities waiting inside them - and in their society - to be unlocked.
Contents Foreword ............................................................................................................. V Acknowledgements ...........................................................................................7 Abbreviations ......................................................................................................9 Executive Summary ........................................................................................ 11 Introduction ..................................................................................................... 17 Chapter 1 Social inclusion and human development - a conceptual background ........ 23 Chapter 2 Economic and labour market exclusion ........................................................... 33 Chapter 3 Access to education and exclusion .................................................................. 53 Chapter 4 Health care services and exclusion ................................................................... 67 Chapter 5 Political participation and exclusion ................................................................. 77 Chapter 6 Findings and Recommendations ...................................................................... 91 Annexes 1. Life in Kosovo 2010 ...................................................................................... 101 2. Technical Notes ............................................................................................ 105 Notes ................................................................................................................ 107 CONTENTS | 15
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