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Partner: Government: Government of Switzerland
International Organizations: Housing and Property Rights Directorate and Claims Commission-United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), UN-HABITAT |
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Cost: US$76,889 |
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Conflict and the subsequent emergence of newly independent states in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s caused a crisis in the housing sector. The physical destruction of thousands of homes and the unlawful occupation of abandoned houses created uncertainty about ownership rights in the region. In 1999, the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) established a Housing and Property Directorate and Claims Commission (HPD/CC) to provide policy and legal advice to temporarily allocate abandoned properties and to settle residential property disputes in Kosovo. The HPD/CC in Kosovo was, until December 2002 managed by UN-HABITAT, but is now administered by UNMIK. The purpose of this project is to administer on behalf of UNMIK a functional branch of the HPD/CC in Belgrade that is responsible for its Serbia and Montenegro operations.
The primary activities of the Housing and Property Directorate's Belgrade office is to assist claimants in Serbia and Montenegro in their interactions with the Head Office in Kosovo. This involves conducting interviews, providing information to claimants on claims processing, and providing feedback and information to the HPD/CC Head Office, as well as receiving and delivering resolved claims to claimants in Serbia and Montenegro.
By February 2004, the Housing and Property Directorate offices in Belgrade had received 1623 claims, of which 940 were resolved/delivered; 236 were sent back to Pristina because they were wrongly addressed and 447 are pending delivery. |
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