Water, Solid Waste and Irrigation

There are 42 utility Publicly Owned Enterprises in the Water, Solid Waste and Irrigation sectors of Kosovo, serving around 2 million people, not all of which are connected to all services. This number of POEs operating in this sector is too high to be efficient or financially effective, so they need to be consolidated to become self-sustaining business units.

The KTA strategy for the Water, Solid Waste and Irrigation sectors was presented to, and approved by, the KTA board at its September 2002 meeting. The 42 utility POEs will be restructured into Regional Utility groups of utility POE companies.

A full consultation process is ongoing to involve all stakeholders in the restructuring changes and process. This restructuring will allow Head Office services to be developed in the regional utility POEs to improve and develop Financial Planning, Business Planning, Operational Planning, IT services, HR Services, Transport and Plant services, Procurements and Laboratories. Local Autonomy will not be lost, Area offices will be maintained in the existing municipal based service areas to ensure front end delivery of day to day utility services including staffing, spare parts, machinery and equipment an customer interface offices.