This report provides an overview of implementing environment for “GrassRoots Action Support – GRAS”, an European Union funded project, managed by the European Union Office in Kosovo, implemented by Kosovar Stability Initiative (IKS), Lens, and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), office in Kosovo. The report also provides an overview of capacities and needs of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) targeted with this research, namely grassroots and local organisations. Given there is no universal understanding on the definition of grassroots organisations many definitions were analyzed before adopting the one provided by The European Union (EU) Civil Society Online Helpdesk, which uses “self-organisation, common interests, volunteer-based, non-profit organisation” as the key words used to define such organisations. Similarly, due to the difficulties in translating the words “constituents” and ”constituencies” into Albanian, when interviewing the organisations the word “community” and several other expressions have been adopted as it was the best way to explain the concept.
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