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22.10.2022
Kevin Mitchell’s Remarks for SEEK Cl...
Kevin Mitchell, the Managing Director of Sector Operations Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), delivered opening remarks on the occasion of SEEK Program closing. The majority of energy consumed in Kosovo is consumed by households rather than industry. This means that working with hous...
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10.08.2022
CHANGES IN AIR QUALITY IN KOSOVO OVER THE ...
An interview with Letafete Latifi, Environmental and Social Performance Consultant at MFK, who unveils her experience as an envionmental expert involved in air quality issues for over 20 years. Based on the data of the Kosovo Environmental Protection Agency (KEPA), in Prishtina, the air is...
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05.07.2022
How will Kosovo benefit from the Women in ...
Millennium Foundation Kosovo has put several activities under our Gender and Social Inclusion cross-sectorial considerations, under a single “umbrella” of a project we named Women in Energy. The idea was have an integrated approach of both helping greater inclusion of women in energy sector, but ...
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28.01.2022
‘WOMEN IN ENERGY’ MOTIVATING ENTREPRENEURS...
An article by Rina Abazi, of the MFK Communications team, on the occasion of the Big Energy Saving Week, running from 18-24 January. This campaign aimed to highlight the importance of women’s economic empowerment in Kosovo through the implementation of energy efficiency measures and renewable ene...
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16.12.2021
CDA Giacobbe’s Remarks at ERA DIMËN / Air ...
Chargé d’Affaires, Nicholas J. Giacobbe, Jr. Remarks at “ERA DIMËN”, which marked the conclusion of Air Quality Activities, supported by Millennium Foundation Kosovo and Millennium Challenge Corporation. It is an honor to be here today and join the Millennium Challenge Corporat...
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01.12.2021
Helping Kosovo Economy Recover in a Greene...
An article by MFK Energy Director, Burim Hashani, on MCC supported interventions in the energy efficiency field in Kosovo; what worked best so far and lessons learned from SEEK Program. This article is published on the 15th edition of the MFK’s quarterly newsletter ‘The Challenger’, published in ...
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20.11.2021
How do we Monitor and Evaluate our projects?
A blog based on the editorial by MFK M&E Specialist, Genta Agaj, for the 15th issue of the MFK’s quarterly newsletter ‘The Challenger’, published in December 2021. MFK has brought impactful change to people’s lives. The Women in Energy initiatives transformed the lives of 410 women ent...
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27.10.2021
Women in Energy Scholars becoming Women in...
A blog written by Violeta Rexha Krasniqi, Gender and Social Inclusion Specialist at MFK, about the transformative Women in Energy Program, which has resulted in job creation and professional growth for Kosovan women in the energy sector. Millennium Foundation Kosovo (MFK) has been dedicate...
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30.09.2021
Energy Regulator’s Decision to Publish Ope...
An article published on mcc.gov/blog, by Carolyn Wetzel Chen, Director, Human and Community Development Practice Group Meredith Perry, USAID Open Innovation Advisor Krenar Bujupi, CEO and Managing Partner of KPOWR Solutions MCC’s Kosovo Threshold Program is supporting open data competition...
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30.09.2021
Why are we doing what we are doing?
A blog based on the editorial by the MFK CEO, Petrit Selimi, for the 14th issue of the MFK’s quarterly newsletter ‘The Challenger’, published in October 2021. Millennium Foundation Kosovo is implementing the activities financed by Millennium Challenge Corporation, based on a $49million gra...
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13.09.2021
Working for MFK is working for change in K...
Even before I started the first year of my MBA program at UC Berkeley Haas, I knew that I wanted to complete my MBA internship in Kosovo. Before I came to Haas I had served with the U.S. Peace Corps in northern Albania for more than two years, and I was sure that after a […]
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14.05.2021
From the Balkans to the Hawkeye State: Emp...
An article by Saadia Iqbal, Writer-Editor at Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), about the Graduates of the Women in Energy Scholarship Program. This article is published on mccgov.medium.com. Blerona Rexhaj was 23 years old when she left her home in Istog, Kosovo for the first ...
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31.03.2021
Investing in Energy Efficiency Sparks Chan...
An article by Jozefina Cutura, Director of Gender and Social Inclusion at Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), about MFK’s Women Energy Entrepreneurs (WEE) Program and the series of activities that MFK is implementing with MCC’s support towards empowering women entrepreneurs in Kosovo, t...
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24.11.2020
Women Are Driving Change in Kosovo’s Energ...
An article by Jozefina Cutura, Director of Gender and Social Inclusion at Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) on the importance of women’s economic empowerment in Kosovo and the series of activities that MFK is implementing with MCC’s support towards increasing women’s participation in Kosovo’...
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20.11.2020
Increasing civic trust by supporting judic...
An interview with Gentiana Mahmuti, Judical and Open Data Manager at MFK, on the role of Public Access to Judicial Information (PAJI) activity in increasing judicial transparency and accountability. This interview is published on the 11th edition of MFK’s quarterly newsletter ‘The Challenger’, No...
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16.11.2020
Projects launched, activities commencing
An editorial by MFK CEO, Petrit Selimi, for the 11th issue of the MFK’s quarterly newsletter ‘The Challenger’, published in November 2020. Millennium Foundation Kosovo is the implementing entity of the $49million threshold program signed in 2017 between US federal agency MCC and Rep...
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02.09.2019
Of Butterflies and Tornadoes
Remarks of MFK CEO Petrit Selimi at the closing ceremony of #WomeninScience Summer Camp in Kosovo, which gathered 100 girls from Kosovo, USA, Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia with tutors from Intel, NASA, Microsoft, US Department of Energy and many more. This is the closin...
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02.09.2019
Ambassador Kosnett’s Remarks at the #WiSci...
Ladies and gentlemen, students and scientists – good afternoon. It is a great pleasure to join my colleagues from the Embassy’s Millennium Challenge Corporation office, and the folks from Girl Up and INTEL and the other supporters of WiSciKosovo in congratulating the 100 young women here today –...
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02.09.2019
MCC CD Sarah Olmstead Remarks at the #WiSc...
Hello everyone, I am Sarah Olmstead, Resident Country Director for MCC in Kosovo and I wanted to welcome everyone to the closing ceremony of WiSci Kosovo! Welcome, Mr Ambassador, Minister Shahini and Minister Lluka, our partners from Intel, AAB, AmCham, Jaha Solar and elsewhere, and most especial...
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06.05.2019
Energy efficiency pays back (and not just ...
More than 50% of electricity in Kosovo is used by the residential sector, 80% of which is used for space and water heating. What can we do in our own households to be more energy-efficient? We are entering the summer months, but it’s worth remembering how in each winter season in Kosovo wh...
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22.02.2019
WE Engender Energy / Women in Energy (WE)
Let me make some educated, and hopefully unbiased, guesses in terms of what a big chunk of our (and maybe wider) society would answer when asked about women and their profession? Women in Teaching. Society: of course, my teacher was a woman. Women in Nursing. Society: yes, this professio...
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28.01.2019
American Support For New Generation of Wom...
An interview with Robert Denson, the President of Des Moines Area Community College in Iowa, after the signing of the agreement between Millennium Foundation Kosovo and DMACC enabling education of five Kosovar women in this well-known college. The studies will be focused on two-years, energy-rela...
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25.01.2019
Kosovo became eligible for MCC Compact. Wh...
In December of 2018, Kosovo media reported widely about the decision of the Board of Millennium Challenge Corporation to make Kosovo eligible for a compact. Some media speculated that Kosovo is now receiving tens of millions of dollars. Others called me to ask does that mean our present Threshold...
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16.01.2019
How do Kosovars spend their time?
When Kosovo Government entered into an agreement with Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), back in 2016, we jointly developed a Constraints to Economic Growth Analysis (CA). Through that process, we came across some striking statistics and questions regarding labour market variables that neede...
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16.01.2019
A short story on how DigIt came to be
When I first found out about Millennium Foundation Kosovo, I read about its two major projects, one dedicated to the energy landscape, and the other to good governance. Good and Transparent Governance project is really centred towards promoting and using Open Data formats. It’s meant to en...
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15.01.2019
Gender and Social Equality is at the heart...
Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are widely recognized as major dimensions of human progress. Studies show that countries embracing values of gender equality and social inclusion they also have sustainable economic development. Therefore, Millennium Foundation Kosovo,...
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