Social Dialogue involves all types of negotiation, consultation or exchange of information between government representatives, employers and employees on issues of common interest in relation to economic and social policies.

Social Economic Council, or, as it was called in the beginning, the Tripartite Council, initially failed to realize the mission for which it was created. The parties had failed to agree on initiating dialogue between the social partners. Consequently, social dialogue has been and remains one of the issues mentioned and recommended in the Progress Reports of the European Commission for Kosovo.

The Social Dialogue is one of the central pillars of the International Labor Organization’s Decent Work Agenda. The European Commission has concluded that there is a need for improvement of social dialogue in Kosovo. For this purpose, since 2013, the project “Supporting Social Partners – PPS” has been initiated, supported by the EU and led by IKS in direct partnership with Friedrich Ebert-Prishtina Foundation (FES), Economic Chamber of Commerce Kosova (KCC), Independent Energy Union of Kosovo (SPEK), Independent Trade Union of Kosovo Metalists (SPMK), Pau Solidarity Foundation (FPS) and Kosovo Center for Gender Studies (KCGG).