📋 Tender Overview
The project aims to improve key socio-economic conditions of Kukës County and increase youth resilience towards illegal migration, and the joining of the ranks of serious and organised crime in the United Kingdom.
"New Perspectives in Kukës" (Perspektiva të reja) effectively addresses these sociocultural, economic and governance factors, creates new socio-economic opportunities and a more enabling entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Through this initiative, Swisscontact contributes to the increase of the employability of people who currently lack skills or access to (self) employment, through training that is tailored to the labour market and micro-entrepreneurship that allows people to economically prosper in Kukës. The project supports the business development and increases employment opportunities in the area in various sectors such as: (agro) tourism, medicinal and aromatic plants, improved agro-processing or ICT-based services, cultivating local entrepreneurship.
An inclusive approach is adopted to understand and address key issues that influence the decisions of young people and families to migrate illegally. It works with them to enhance their resilience to external pressures and empowers them to seize local economic and entrepreneurial opportunities. It depicts the realities of migrant life in the UK and of people who decided to stay in Kukes and build up a decent livelihood.
The project also collaborates with local and national government, to listen to the citizens’ and business communities’ voices and be more accountable. It assists local authorities to elaborate plans and create a more enabling environment for local economic development that can harness the full potential of the people of Kukës.
Project Goals
The project pursues three key objectives:
to increase communities’ resilience to pressures to migrate illegally to the UK;
to improve social-economic conditions and opportunities in Kukës County, especially for youth;
to enhance relations between communities, private sector and local government for local economic development.
Project Partner
TAG International
