In Kosovo, donors were in “fashion” since 1999. Starting from the most serious ones to other anonymous donor organizations, they were all part of the emergency phase of the after-war. This mosaic of donor sector was not encouraging for coordination between them. This was also because of the lack of a “home-made” agenda for orienting the international aid, thus leaving each of the donors decide its own agenda and priorities. The non-coordination between donors caused not only the duplication of same activities from different NGOs, but also division of NGOs based on their donors (for example so called “US NGOs” and “EU NGOs”). This non-coordination was later impacting also the coordination between local NGOs within the sector. Recently, the NGOs are identifying an emerging need for coordination between themselves, which can gradually reflect also on the donor community, as it can be noticed in a number of current initiatives.

In the government side, within the Office of Prime minister, an Office for Donor Coordination operated until 2009, when it was merged with the Agency for European Integration to establish the Agency for Development Coordination and European Integration. However, regardless their official mandate to coordinate the overall development aid for Kosovo, no evidence was found that the Office and/or Agency deal with the civil society donors in Kosovo.