Cooperation Agreement between KJI and the GIZ signed

On 29 July 2015, the KJI has signed a two-year cooperation agreement with the GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) with the aim of structuring and determining clearly the objectives of enhancing KJI professional capacities and programs.

The cooperation will focus on the creation of legal tools aimed at developing the judiciary in the country and provision of all commentaries, summary of laws and other legal tools that the GIZ has developed so far in KJI’s e-library; implementation of exchange programs; implementation of trainings for judges and prosecutors and support for the staff of courts and prosecutors’ offices; assistance in the provision of KJI trainings to the judicial non-majority community; advancement of training technology and development of KJI programs.

In his speech, the KJI Director, Mr. Lavdim Krasniqi, praised GIZ’s continued support for the judiciary in Kosovo, especially in enhancing KJI’s training programs and various publications and professional development of KJI staff.

Mr. Malte Kirchner, Project Manager, underscored the importance of commentaries and other legal tools for the judiciary and their role in making the job of judges and prosecutors in the country easier. In this regard, Mr. Kirchner maintained that the KJI is the most appropriate place to be in possession of such legal tools, as it has the required infrastructure to provide them to the judicial community in the country.

They both averred that the signed agreement would help shape cooperation further and that more results would be achieved in accomplishing the mission of building judges and prosecutors’ professional capacities in the country.