MUNICIPAL PROFILE 2018 PEJË/PEĆ REGION
GJAKOVË/ ÐAKOVICA MUNICIPAL PROFILE 2018 GJAKOVË/ ÐAKOVICA The OSCE regional centre Pejë/Peć covers six (6) municipalities, including Gjakovë/Ðakovica, and has teams working in all of them.
AREA AND POPULATION 586 km² area The municipality of Gjakovë/Ðakovica is located in south- western Kosovo. It covers an area of approximately 586 km² and 91 villages includes Gjakovë/Ðakovica town and 91 villages. According to the 2011 Kosovo Population and Housing Census, the total 94,556 population population is 94,556.
Ethnic composition According to the census conducted in 1981, there were 87,588 Kosovo Albanians, 1,898 Kosovo Serbs and 1,953 Kosovo 1.Kosovo Albanians 87,672 Montenegrins in the municipality; according to the census 2.Kosovo Egyptians 5,117 conducted in 1991*, there were 106,868 Kosovo Albanians, 3.Kosovo Roma 738 1,751 Kosovo Serbs and 1,460 Kosovo Montenegrins in the 4.Kosovo Ashkali 613 municipality. 5.Kosovo Bosniaks 73 6.Kosovo Serbs 17 According to the UNHCR statistics, 1,051 displaced persons 7.Kosovo Turks 16 have returned to the municipality since 1999, of them 117 8.Kosovo Gorani 13 Kosovo Roma, 920 Kosovo Ashkali and Kosovo Egyptians and 14 9.Other 92 Kosovo Bosniaks. 10.Not specified 205
(source: Kosovo Agency of Statistics) *The 1991 census is not accepted by Kosovo Albanians as legitimate.
GOVERNING STRUCTURES AND POLITICAL OVERVIEW The number of voters in Gjakovë/Ðakovica municipality registered for the municipal elections held in 2017 (1st round in October and 2nd round in November) was 114,4181, including out-of-Kosovo voters. The voter turnout in 1st round was 38.41% or 43,948 voters and in 2nd round it was 36.34% or 41,577 voters (source: Central Election Commission). The 2017 municipal assembly election results were as follows: The current seat distribution is as follows:
25.19% AAK Alliance for Future of Kosovo 9 seats 16.87% ALTERNATIVA 6 seats 14.18% PDK Democratic Party of Kosovo 5 seats 13.31% Vetëvendosje! (Self-Determination) Movement 4* seats 9.67% LDK Democratic League of Kosovo 4 seats 9.66% PSHDK Albanian Christian Democratic Party 3 seats 4.70% NISMA Social Democratic Initiative 2 seats 3.30% AKR Alliance New Kosovo 0* seats Independent members 2* seats
1. The overall population figure presented above is taken from the 2011 census (or authoritative estimates where the census figure is not available), whereas the voters list is a reflection of all people with a civil registration entry in the municipality. In some cases, the voters list figure is higher than or similar to the overall population number due to insufficient updating of the civil registry or a significant proportion of people registered in the municipality but actually living elsewhere or abroad.
* Following the elections, one (1) member from Vetëvendosje! and one (1) from AKR have resigned from their parties, and have remained to hold the seats as independent members. GJAKOVË/ ÐAKOVICA
MUNICIPAL PROFILE 2018 LEGISLATIVE ECONOMY € The municipal assembly has 35 seats distributed among nine (9) The economy of Gjakovë/Ðakovica municipality is predominantly political entities, all members are Kosovo Albanian; 15 are based on small businesses. There are around 7,358 registered women. The Municipal Assembly Chairperson is Anton Shala businesses in the municipality, which employ approximately (PSHDK). 15,069 people (source: municipal directorate of economic development/ business registration centre).
EXECUTIVE PUBLIC SERVICES Structure of municipal executive and the executive's political affiliations. Infrastructure The municipality is headed by Mayor Ardian Gjini (AAK), elected for his first term as mayor with 53.4% of votes in the second The overall status of infrastructure in the municipality is round of the 2017 municipal elections. In the previous term, the assessed as good. The roads connecting the urban centre with 86 mayor was Mimoza Kusari-Lila (AKR), who was elected in the villages are asphalted. Gjakovë/Ðakovica town is connected to second round of the 2013 municipal elections with 52.4% of the water supply and sewage systems, while only 47% of the villages votes. Deputy Mayor is Ramadan Hoti (PDK). are connected to water supply, and none to the sewage system, and currently use alternative methods. Power supply covers the There are 12 municipal departments. Three (3) departments are entire municipality (source: municipal directorate of public services). run by women directors: culture, youth and sport (AAK); geodesy and cadastre (AAK); and health and social welfare (PDK), nine (9) departments are run by men directors: administration (AAK); Health inspectorate (AAK); urban planning and environment protection (AAK); budget and finance (AAK); public services (PDK); The primary health care system includes one (1) mental health agriculture (PDK); education (PSHDK); economic development care centre, one (1) main family health care centre located in the (PSHDK); and emergency and preparedness (NISMA). In the town, ten (10) smaller health centres and 16 health houses previous mandate (2013-2017), two (2) directors were women located in different villages. There is also secondary health care (source: municipal information office) system which includes the regional hospital and the Kosovo Occupational Health Institute, both managed by the Ministry of Health. The health sector has 344 employees, including doctors, JUDICIARY nurses and support staff; 245 women and 99 men.
Gjakovë/Ðakovica Basic Court has 15 judges, all Kosovo All communities have access to health care and all facilities Albanian; nine (9) men and six (6) women. It has branches in (source: municipal directorate of health and social welfare). Malishevë/Mališevo and Rahovec/Orahovac. Education Gjakovë/Ðakovica Basic Prosecutor's Office has 12 prosecutors; ten (10) men and two (2) women. The Office also covers There are 43 primary schools with 12,744 pupils, including Malishevë/Mališevo and Rahovec/Orahovac municipalities (source: Gjakovë/Ðakovica Basic Court and Prosecutor's Office). 1,487 from non-Albanian communities, and 1,100 teachers, seven (7) secondary schools with 4,063 students, including 132 students from non-Albanian communities, and 308 teachers, and one (1) kindergarten with four (4) units in different locations with SECURITY PRESENCE 512 children, including 28 children from non-Albanian communities, and 49 educators. There is also a public university Kosovo Police station in Gjakovë/Đakovica has 94 police officers, “Fehmi Agani” providing education to 3,744 students for the 91 Kosovo Albanian, two (2) Kosovo Egyptian and one (1) Kosovo 2018/2019 academic year (source: municipal directorate of education for Bosniak; four (4) are women. Its sub-station in 2018/19 school year). Ponashec/Ponošec village has six (6) police officers.
The Regional Kosovo Police Directorate in Gjakovë/Đakovica has 93 police officers; ten (10) are women (source: Gjakovë/Ðakovica regional police directorate and police). GJAKOVË/ ÐAKOVICA
MUNICIPAL PROFILE 2018 RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL SITES KEY FACTS Gjakovë/Ðakovica municipality has a total 33 mosques, an Islamic Grand Madrassa and 22 tekkes (dervish lodges). Twenty In Gjakovë/Ðakovica there are: (20) mosques and tekkes, including the Grand Madrassa, were destroyed/damaged during the 1999 conflict and reconstructed • 35 seats in the municipal assembly after the conflict. There are four (4) Serbian Orthodox churches. One (1) is functional, destroyed in March 2004 riots and distributed among 9 political entities reconstructed in 2011, the other three (3) remain destroyed since the aftermath of the 1999 conflict (on the site of one of destroyed • 94 police officers in the stations and 93 in the churches located in town's centre, a public park was built in regional command 2006).There are 24 Catholic and six (6) Protestant Evangelic churches, all are functional (source: religious communities' representatives). • 15 judges and 12 prosecutors
A total of 179 cultural heritage sites (archaeological and • 1,457 teachers in 43 primary and 7 secondary architectural) in Gjakovë/Ðakovica municipality are included in schools and 1 kindergarten the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport list of sites under permanent/temporary protection. • 1 public university