In 13 municipalities of Kosovo during the period 2018-2023, capital investments in rural and urban areas reached a value of 540 million euros. While 442 million euros have been invested in urban areas, while another 98 million in rural areas.

This is stated in the presentation of the report “Practices of 15 municipalities in capital investments across localities 2018-2023” by the GAP Institute and Helveta DEMOS.

While this analysis states that “the distribution of funds across rural localities shows obvious inequality”.

The municipalities included in this report are Drenas, Dragash, Kaçanik, Podujevo, Prizren, Rahovec, Ferizaj, Klina, Kamenica, Obiliq, Peja, Suhareka, Vitia, Junik and Gracanica.

Policy analyst at the GAP Institute, Bekim Salihu, said that capital investments in 15 municipalities in Kosovo during the period 2018-2023 have had an overall budget increase of 40 percent.

Despite this, he emphasized that in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic there was a budget decrease.

Salihu emphasized that the distribution of capital investments by area shows a large focus of investments in infrastructure, which received an average of 65% of the capital budget in 15 municipalities.