On February 10^th Ambassador Delawie joined by Deputy Prime Minister Hajredin Kuci and Minister of Justice Dhurata Hoxha spoke at the launch of the national strategy on land and property rights reform. 

The strategy is the culmination of an 18-month long, government-led effort to bring Kosovo’s property rights regime into the 21^st century.  It will address the biggest impediments to property rights, including a contradictory and outmoded body of law, widespread informality, and inadequate protections for women and non-majority groups.  Updating Kosovo's property rights regime will be a boost to economic development and to the rule of law in Kosovo.

USAID has been assisting the process through its Property Rights Program, a four-year initiative to improve the legal framework and institutional practices and procedures governing property rights, in order to make it easy and straightforward to acquire, register, use and transfer property in Kosovo.