Focus group organised within the project “Impact of investments in the North Kosovo after the Brussels Agreement – do we live better?“

Within the project “Impact of investments in the North Kosovo after the Brussels Agreement – do we live better?“, implemented by the Institute for Territorial Economic Development, in cooperation with RTV Mir, and funded by the Kosovo Foundation for Open Society (KFOS), a focus group was organized with the beneficiaries of EU projects from the grant scheme for North Kosovo.

Focus group participants included EU project beneficiaries from different fields of support: support to commercial farms, agricultural sub-industries – dairy, meat processing, grain, fruit and vegetable production, support to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and support to civil society organisations.

Participants answered the questions related to the effects of project implementation to increased production, profit, employment, improved business operations and cooperation with other business entities
from other parts of Kosovo. They also spoke about effects of their business on the community, problems they face in everyday business and their messages to donors.

Focus group was organised on 19 April 2016 in the office of EUICC in Kosovska Mitrovica.