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Projects

CSD is intensively involved with ethnic Dialogue, Return, Reintegration and Infrastructure issues.

Bla Bla Cafe

CSD currently implements the multiethnic youth radio program Bla Bla Café, a UNICEF-funded, Albanian- and Serb-language program broadcast on over 50 radio stations across Kosovo and Serbia. The program covers 70% of Kosovo; Bla Bla Café has evolved into youth forums in Gracanica, Pristina, and other locales, and has received mention in the Kosovo parliament.

Listen to Bla Bla Cafe's Albanian-language program on dialogue

Listen to Bla Bla Cafe's Romanes-language program on Roma in Pristina

Listen to Bla Bla Cafe's Serb-language program on Gracanica

Kucni Prag

CSD also implements the Dutch Government-funded Refugee/ IDP radio program Kucni Prag (‘Welcome Mat’)- a Serbian-language program broadcast on over 40 stations in Serbia and Kosovo, including B92. This project was initially funded by the Canadian International Development Agency.

Play Kucni Prag's program on the IDP summer camp in Gazivode

Play Kucni Prag's Program on Plemetina

Refugee/ Returnee Assistance

CSD currently operates in partnership with CARE, the American Refugee Committee, and the United Methodist Committee on Relief on returns projects. With CARE CSD assists in building the capacity of local NGOs to eventually take over the dialogue process between Serb returnees and the Albanian community in Lipjan/ Lipljan Municipality under the auspices of Care International’s START II project. With the ARC CSD engages in Post-Return Monitoring of Serb & Roma returnees across the ARC’s Areas of responsibility in Kosovo; with UMCOR CSD broadcast post-march 2004 Pogrom broadcasts of minorities who fled Obilic, and CSD currently assists in the visitations of potential minority returnees to Obiliq/ Obilic municipality.

CSD is currently expanding its activities in Returns, Reintegration and the Dialogue process, assisting in the capacity-building of local NGOs and concerned citizens groups, and working in strengthening the infrastructure of local communities across Kosovo. 

Past Projects

CSD worked jointly with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on the Transparent Community project (broadcast by radio ANTENA, Pristina); we have conducted seminars jointly with the Mother Teresa Society on building Kosovo’s multiethnic environment through the media; we have also worked with the local government in Pristina Municipality, promoting such themes as environmental protection and jointly organizing youth sporting events in rural Pristina municipality. CSD has also implemented AIDS awareness campaigns for UNICEF, and created Danas za Sutra (Today for Tomorrow), a Mercy Corps-funded farming radio program promoting sustainable agriculture and broadcast across Kosovo.

CSD also assisted in the Implementation of Who We Were, Who We Are: Kosovo Roma Oral Histories- a project created and implemented by one of our senior staff, and currently the last single repository of information on Kosovar Roma in existence.