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Civil Execution Training Results Kosovo Successful (December 2010)

[source: www.justice-ks.org] As a result of USAID's Comprehensive Civil Execution Training Program, Execution Agents across Kosovo are now empowered to put theory to practice and to reduce crippling case backlog with quick action.

 Following completion of the training program in November 2010, one Execution Agent in Gjakova Municipal Court uncovered a case which a former judge had hidden and delayed for 5 years. The Execution Agent brought the case to a new judge and enabled a judgment to be taken immediately.  The work of the Execution Agent and the judge is enabling the repayment of debt totaling 84,000.00 Euros--a long delayed resolution to the case that proves that training and capacity building are helping to reduce case backlog and raise the quality of judicial services provided to citizens.

The Civil Execution training is an initiative of USAID’s three year Justice Support Program delivered in partnership with the Kosovo Judicial Institute and the Dutch-funded Balkan Enforcement Reform Project. The program has enabled the implementation of the Kosovo judiciary’s National Backlog Reduction Strategy, the first-ever plan developed by the new leadership of the judiciary to reduce case backlog inherited from the emergency/transitional judiciary established after the conflict in 1999.

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