(6 Feb 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pristina, Kosovo – 5 February 2025
1. Wide of USAID office
2. Various of USAID sign
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ariana Qosja Mustafa, Kosovo Women’s Network:
"We think that definitely this will have a substantial impact not just for us, but also for our member organizations, which are part of the network. And there are many other organizations that are in Kosovo. As you know, USAID has been the second largest donor in Kosovo after the European Union, and it will impact their contractors, subcontractors, implementing organizations. We already have been informed by a couple of NGOs that are members of the network that their funding has been stopped and everybody is uncertain what will happen and how this will continue. So there are projects that have been running 2 or 3 years or even a year just kicked off and they were just cut off. And this is very worrisome, I have to say, especially in our area where we have instability and financial instability can cause even more potential unrest or potential problems in implementation."
4. Cutaway of hands
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ariana Qosja Mustafa, Kosovo Women’s Network:
"We don’t actually know exactly the numbers of how many people have been affected by this. We know that we are worried additionally, since the executive order has mentioned also banning projects which are related to gender and diversity, and this is a struggle that Kosovo has been in the last 25 years working a lot. And it’s a topic that we need to have more support here, and especially also from the international community. And this might leave women’s groups really stranded and unsupported by the majority because it’s not easy to push these issues. So especially in these projects, we need to see what will happen and how gender and diversity will be continued in what forms."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Pristina, Kosovo – 8 March 2024
6. Various of women’s protest, demanding equal rights
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pristina, Kosovo – 5 February 2025
7. GAP institute sign (GAP Institute for Advanced Studies is a Think Tank established in October 2007 in Kosovo)
8. Personnel working at GAP
9. Close of poster
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Blendi Hasaj, GAP institute, Executive Director:
"In Kosovo there are currently 18 projects that are funded by USAID, with a budget of around €157 million that are affected by the suspension of funds. There may be also additional USAID funding through other sources that are not structured through specific projects. Actually, the most affected institutions from this radical shift are the public institutions in Kosovo who have been benefiting from a lot of support from USAID funding, be that on conducting specific reforms, improving the practices of taxation."
11. Pristina street scene
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina – 5 February 2025
12. Emina Bosnjak, head of Sarajevo open centre, NGO that helps LGBT people, minorities and others affected by hate speech, one of the biggest beneficiaries of USAID donations in Bosnia
13. Various of Bosnjak in the office
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Emina Bosnjak, head of Sarajevo Open Centre:
15. Bosnjak in the office
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Emina Bosnjak, head of Sarajevo Open Centre:
17. LGBT Poster
18. Bosnjak in the office
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Emina Bosnjak, head of Sarajevo Open Centre:
20. Mid of office
21. Bosnjak in the office
STORYLINE:
Several non-governmental organizations in the Western Balkans have been left stranded after US President Donald Trump’s decision to abruptly freeze all foreign aid for three months.
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