Writing
Selected writing and published work.
Briefs, diagnostics and essays on social protection system reform, shock-responsive social protection, humanitarian cash assistance and the UN's role in the Western Balkans. Most pieces are linked to the engagement they emerged from.
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Triggers and Financing: The Missing Middle of Shock-Responsive Social Protection in Europe and Central Asia. Lessons from Kosovo
A short analytical piece on the gap between policy intent and operational reality in shock-responsive social protection across Europe and Central Asia, drawing on lessons from Kosovo's SRSP design work.
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Fading Footprint: The UN's Risk of Irrelevance in the Western Balkans
A personal essay on the UN's diminishing footprint in the Western Balkans and the strategic implications of disengagement as the region moves through EU accession dynamics.
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Shock-Responsive Social Protection in Kosovo: Guidelines
Kosovo's first national Shock-Responsive Social Protection Guidelines, developed in partnership with the Ministry of Finance, Labour and Transfers. Translates SRSP readiness findings into operational guidance for government and civil society on humanitarian cash transfers and crisis-responsive scale-up.
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Potential Impact of Serbia's New Economic Measures on Poverty and Children
An analytical brief assessing the distributional and child-welfare implications of Serbia's recent economic policy measures, prepared for UNICEF Serbia.
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Türkiye Shock-Responsive Social Protection System Readiness Assessment
A readiness assessment of Türkiye's national social protection system, drawing on the Syrian refugee response, the COVID-19 cash expansion, and the 2023 earthquakes, with a four-pillar action agenda for government and UNICEF.
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Kosovo Shock-Responsive Social Protection System Readiness Assessment
A diagnostic of Kosovo's social protection system's capacity for shock response, identifying policy and operational bottlenecks. Fed into the subsequent national SRSP Guidelines (October 2025).