Good practice

Le quota de genre de 30 % du Kosovo pour les listes de candidats à l'Assemblée (loi n° 03/L-073, 2008)

La loi n° 03/L-073 (2008) du Kosovo impose au moins 30 % de chaque genre sur les listes de candidats à l'Assemblée, en alternance tous les 3 noms. La part des femmes à l'Assemblée est restée supérieure à ce seuil à chaque élection depuis lors : 32,5 % (2014, 2019), un record de 35,8 % (février 2021) et 33,3 % (2025).

35.8%

Sièges de femmes à l'Assemblée, fév. 2021 (Feb 2021)

33.3%

Sièges de femmes à l'Assemblée, fév. 2025 (Feb 2025)

5.2%

Postes de direction supérieurs de ministères occupés par des femmes (2015)

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: Assembly of Kosovo / Central Election Commission of Kosovo
Period: 2008–present
Keywords: elections, political representation, gender quota, legislation

Context

La loi kosovare de 2008 sur les élections générales (n° 03/L-073) exige au moins 30 % de chaque genre sur les listes de candidats à l'Assemblée, avec une règle de placement garantissant au moins un candidat de chaque genre dans chaque groupe de trois noms, vérifiée par la Commission électorale centrale avant certification.

Results

Le Kosovo utilisant un système de liste ouverte, la part des sièges occupés par des femmes est restée constamment au-dessus du seuil de 30 % sur quatre élections — 32,5 % (2014, 2019), un record de 35,8 % (février 2021) et 33,3 % (février 2025) — mais plusieurs analystes indépendants estiment que le quota fonctionne davantage comme un plafond que comme un plancher, et une étude de 2017 financée par l'UE a constaté que les femmes n'occupaient que 5,2 % des postes de direction supérieurs des ministères en 2015, malgré le respect des quotas sur les listes.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-07-05
Assembly of Kosovo / Central Election Commission of Kosovo — accessed 2026-07-05
NDI — Kosovo Post-Election Analysis, Parliamentary Elections 2021 — accessed 2026-07-05
Equal Future Eurasia — Kosovo country page — accessed 2026-07-05
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung — Beyond the gender quota — accessed 2026-07-05
EU-hosted Kosovar Gender Studies Center — Women's Participation in Decision-Making in Kosovo (2017) — accessed 2026-07-05
ACE Electoral Knowledge Network — Law on General Elections text — accessed 2026-07-05

Quality score: 74/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Observational / pre–post

Top 37% in this catalogue (719 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by C-NAPSE

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Sustainability1/1

The quota has applied without interruption across every Assembly election since 2008, the longest continuous run of the four candidates researched.

Achievement / evidence1/1

A record 43 women elected (35.8%) in February 2021 is a concrete, independently documented achievement (NDI).

Transferability / replicability2/3

The list-alternation quota mechanism is a standard, portable model used across the Western Balkans, though evidence of Kosovo's own law being replicated elsewhere is not documented in the sources reviewed.

Impact on gender equality1/1

Women's Assembly representation has held between 32.5% and 35.8% across five elections since the quota's introduction, a sustained measured effect (NDI, Equal Future Eurasia).

Effectiveness1/1

The 30% floor has been met or exceeded at every election since 2008, achieving the law's core nomination target (Equal Future Eurasia, KGSC).

Efficiency0/1

No cost or administrative-efficiency data for enforcing the quota was found in any source reviewed.

Evaluated outcomes1/1

NDI's post-election analyses and the EU-funded KGSC report provide quantified, cycle-by-cycle outcome data from 2014 through 2025.

Gender-mainstreaming embedding1/1

Kosovo's separate 2015 Law on Gender Equality sets a 50% representation target across legislative, executive and judicial bodies, extending gender considerations well beyond the electoral quota alone.

Curator validation0/1

Not yet reviewed by a C-NAPSE human curator; evaluation reflects automated evidence-based scoring only.

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Evidoria. Le quota de genre de 30 % du Kosovo pour les listes de candidats à l'Assemblée (loi n° 03/L-073, 2008). Persistent ID: 24f37086-e2a6-4e04-bc22-5a9299982565.

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