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With the objectives of increasing capacity and
skills for cross-border community project work in the GPKT
micro-region, EWI organised training in basic project management
skills for members of the GPKT Education Committee, the GPKT Women’s
Working Group and the GPKT Youth Council in December 2005.
Participants came from the different ethnic groups of the four GPKT
municipalities, Gjilan/Gnjilane, Presevo, Kumanovo and Trgoviste,
and were a mixture of ethnicities, ages and genders.
From 14 to 17 December in the Gjilan / Gnjilane Didactic Centre, in
overlapping sessions of two days according to Working Groups, a
total of 65 participants were trained on:
 Project planning – including the
project cycle, SWOT analysis and partnerships
Project development – including
objective setting and proposal drafting
Project implementation and
management – including leadership, motivation and team work,
launching projects and communications
Dealing with donors and
reporting – including donor relationships, criteria and application,
reporting and basic principles of financial reporting
Monitoring and evaluation –
including monitoring systems, progress review and reaching targets.
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The training was delivered primarily by the Pristina-based Management
and Development Associates, with the support and additional facilitation
of EWI staff. Simultaneous translation was provided in Albanian,
English, and Serbian / Macedonian, and smaller group-work sessions were
multi-lingual and facilitated by ‘whispering’ translation if necessary.
Participants evaluated the training with a 4.9 average score (out of 5),
and the vast majority of participants expressed great satisfaction with
the way the training had been run and the skills they had gained.
With the development of these additional skills in the four GPKT
communities, EWI will continue to continuing to work with the GPKT
Working Groups on various initiatives, including further
capacity-building, and also with broader GPKT civil society through the
EWI / SEE Change micro-grant programme, launched to fund cross-border
projects in the micro-region.
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