Bosnia and Herzegovina

Local development requires a collaborative effort on the part of different governmental, non-governmental and private sector actors. © UNDP Bosnia and Herzegovina
18 July 2011

Towards systematic and integrated local development planning and management in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Most local governments in Bosnia and Herzegovina have their own development strategies, yet they struggle to produce tangible results. Is the ‘Integrated local development methodology' the way ahead?

Topics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Local governance, Local development, Area based development, Decentralization, Integrated local development

Farmer cooperatives organized by UNDP allow farmers to share costly machinery, equipment and other resources. (cc) Tauno Erik
18 July 2011

High food prices and opportunities for poverty reduction

Are value chains the way to make rising food prices work for the poor in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by creating employment opportunities in the food and agriculture sector?

Topics: Private sector, Rural development, Food security, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Local development, Area based development, Rural poverty, Integrated local development

A man displaying a fragment of a mortar shell. Despite the horrific legacies left by the Balkan wars of the 1990s, citizens in three out of four Western Balkans countries today perceive socio-economic factors as the chief threats to social cohesion. © OSCE/Marko Georgiev
09 March 2010

Measuring quality of life and social exclusion in the Western Balkans

This article describes how methodology from the European ‘Quality of Life’ survey has been used to measure social exclusion in the new EU member states and the candidate countries. These results indicate that, in most of the...

Topics: Poverty, Social inclusion, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria , Croatia , Hungary , Montenegro , The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia , Poverty Reduction , Employment, Global economic crisis, Data, Social policies, Income inequality, Policy development, Western Balkans, Quality of life, EU accession

The elderly were identified as being at the highest risk of poverty and social exclusion in Bosnia and Herzegovina © Flore de Preneuf/The World Bank
09 March 2010

Assessing social exclusion in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Fourteen years after the Dayton Accords were signed, social inclusion remains critically important in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Building on the country’s 2007 National Human Development Report, this article analyses how social...

Topics: Poverty, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poverty Reduction , Global economic crisis, Data, Social policies, Vulnerable groups, Policy development, Social mobilization, National human development report

Water aplenty, but none to drink. Pollution collects against a dam wall of the Drina river, which forms part of the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. © OSCE
09 March 2010

Social inclusion and water: Why a human rights- based approach matters

The authors argue that access to water is a fundamental human right and, as such, needs to be better integrated into social inclusion agendas. It looks at three countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tajikistan, and Kosovo) where...

Topics: Human development, Social inclusion, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Tajikistan , Kosovo – UN Security Council Resolution 1244, Poverty Reduction , Service delivery, Human development report, Ethnic minorities, Governance, Water, Human Rights, Infrastructure, Health