USAID Kosovo Investment Promotion and Access to Finance Activity

Scope of Work

Local Expert for Drafting Kosovo’s National Investment Strategy, Action Plan and Monitoring and Evaluation Plan

Project background

DT Global is a fast-growing international development company that focuses on improving the capability, capacity, and effectiveness of development programming in complex global environments. DT Global has been awarded the 5-year USAID-funded Investment Promotion and Access to Finance Activity in Kosovo (hereinafter “Activity”). The Activity aims to strengthen the private sector’s capacity to deliver sustainable economic growth through two mutually re enforcing objectives: 1) attracting and promoting investment; and 2) increasing access and utilization of diversified finance. By achieving these two objectives, the Activity aims to strengthen the resiliency of the private sector, create productive jobs, increase exports, and enable firms to adopt new technologies and business practices.

Assignment background

A key mandate of the Ministry of Industry, Entrepreneurship, and Trade (MIET) is to advance the drafting of policies and legislation in the field of investment. In that regard, MIET is planning to develop the National Investment Strategy (NIS). The National Investment Strategy aims to facilitate opportunities for attracting foreign and domestic investments in Kosovo. Priority areas are expected to be in accordance with sector policies of Kosovo’s priority sectors, the Law on Sustainable Investments, the Strategy for Industrial Development and Business Support 2030, and linked to the National Development Strategy (NDS) 2030. These policies and strategic documents will provide the overall framework that will guide the analyses of priority sectors to be identified for investment, subsequently leading to the definition of intervention areas. The NIS should also identify opportunities and areas for promoting Kosovo to foreign investors. Among others, the NIS should also address obstacles and difficulties that investors face, including recent global economic events that may impact investment flows.

The focus and policy of the strategy will be in accordance with the needs of the private sector, including with the objectives of the EU investment policy, taking into account the green agenda, as well as taking into account relevant recommendations of the European Commission, and recommended relevant investment-related measures from Government of Kosovo (GOK).

In addition to the National Investment Policy, an Action Plan, which is to be costed, will be finalized within a time limit as specified by MIET (within ten months of initiating the strategy development process). The strategy development process is expected to be overseen by MIET’s Department for Investments and will take place within the framework of an already established GOK working group, including other relevant parties related to the field of investments.

In support of this effort, GOK is engaging an international expert, while the Activity has agreed to support the engagement of a Short-Term Local Expert, who will work closely with the international expert and the GOK working group mandated to develop the noted strategy. The Local Expert who will support MIET with developing the National Investment Strategy, a three-year Action Plan, and a monitoring and evaluation plan, which is expected to be drawn up by collecting data obtained from quantitative and qualitative research, secondary data, international studies/practices/trends/developments, as well as with the involvement of relevant participants. The National Investment Strategy will be drafted in full compliance with the requirements of "Administrative Instruction (GRK) No. 07/2018 on Planning and Drafting Strategic Documents and Action Plans.”