Sehida Miftari

Experience

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  OSCE Mission in Kosovo

  Apr 2000 - Feb 2015

  Senior Programme Assistant

  monitoring and analyzing broad range of human rights issues such as minority rights, elections, gender and discrimination issues; drafting reports and background documents, including analysis on the above mentioned issues; interviewing and advising individuals alleging violations of human rights; identifying human rights gaps and consequent capacity building measures to municipal administration; implementing quick impact and long term projects to address gaps in identified human rights issues, municipal civil service, youth, vulnerable groupsdelivering trainings on gender equality, gender responsive budgeting Show less

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  Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Mission in Kosovo

  Jan 2009 - now

  Gender Focal Point

  Monitoring all activities related to gender in six municipalities of Prizren region. Promotion of gender equality by advising office staff on their obligations to include gender perspectives and analysis in all decisions, policies, programs and activities; Coordinating all gender related activities in the organization, including projects, assessments, implementation of activities; Analysing gender specific reports, general reports, and projects from gender perspective; preparing annual mission plans and gender reports, and providing inputs on gender; Participate in creation of OSCE Mission action plan on mainstreaming gender in line with the overall 2004 OSCE Gender Action Plan;Coordination of activities targeting women and promotion of gender equality with local interlocutors (officials and civil society representatives) and other international organizations ; Delivering trainings and facilitating workshops on gender equality, gender mainstreaming in policies, activities, and gender responsive budgeting; Promotion of increased participation of women in decision making processes ;Organizing workshops for students on various gender relate topics, i..e gender equality, domestic violence. Show less

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  OSCE

  Jun 2022 - now

  - Acting as a contact point for the OSCE Mission in Kosovo on youth-related issues;- Liaising with colleagues within the Mission as well as across other Missions on youth issues;- Coordinating youth issues with the international and local NGOs, institutions and international organizations; - Co-chairing internal Youth Working Group;- Preparing Mission’s Youth Action Plans, compiling inputs from colleagues;- Coordinating youth-related tasks and inputs as well as external requests;- Reviews Mission’s documents from youth perspectives and provides support in drafting youth-related documents, advocacy strategies, needs assessments, etc. - Represents Mission in various meetings focused on youth. Show less Assists in formulating Section policy on issues pertaining to human rights and active monitoring, analyzing and reporting on a broad range of human rights issues in Kosovo that are mandated to the Section;Assists in advising local and central level institutions in increasing their compliance with international human rights standards in specific thematic areas;Identifies sources of information, gathers documentation, researches and analyzes international human rights instruments and best practices across Europe for use in professional development training and human rights presentations and delivers selected parts of these training and presentations to relevant central and local level institutions and civil society representatives;Develops, organizes, and delivers human rights training and presentations in English and in Albanian and/or Serbian;Studies and analyzes international human rights treaties, standard-setting international human rights case-law and authoritative commentaries and analyses relevant legislation in Kosovo as it relates to international human rights law, in order to understand how human rights standards can be implemented in the legal context in Kosovo Show less In the absence of the Senior Legal Adviser for the Human Rights and Access to Justice portfolio/Law and Justice Section conducting additional tasks as follows:- Identifying areas and contributing to the development of section policies, formulating strategic goals and priorities of the portfolio - Monitoring, analyzing and reporting about broad range of human rights issues with the focus on non-discrimination, gender equality and domestic violence, rights of persons with disabilities, communities’ rights, and youth;- Reviewing reports and other inputs related to human rights and access to justice;- Managing, implementing, and reporting about project activities;- Coordinating inputs and tasks, liaising with other colleagues in the field and HQ, collecting data, preparing inputs and analyses, recommendations, and feedback on different human rights topics - Legal review of draft legislation and policies from human rights perspective- Managing Extra Budgetary Project;- Co-drafted the Guidelines for the Effective Performance of Municipal Coordination Mechanisms against Domestic Violence (MCMDV) Show less

  • Mission’s Youth Focal Point

    Nov 2020 - now

  • National Programme Officer

    Feb 2015 - now

  • Acting Senior Legal Adviser

    Jun 2022 - Nov 2023