Ketrina Janaqi

Ketrina Janaqi serves as a key procurement professional within USAID/Kosovo, supporting the agency’s mission to strengthen democratic governance, institutional accountability, and market-driven reforms in the Western Balkans. She manages the acquisition of technical assistance and capacity-building services critical to judicial modernization, public financial management, and rule of law initiatives. Her work ensures that contracting aligns with U.S. foreign assistance priorities and European integration goals, typically overseeing professional services contracts that require deep sectoral expertise and adaptive implementation approaches. Janaqi collaborates with a diverse pool of international and local consulting firms, civil society organizations, and technical service providers specializing in public sector reform. While no single contractor dominates her portfolio, she consistently engages firms with proven experience in institutional strengthening, governance diagnostics, and stakeholder engagement in post-conflict environments. Her contracting patterns reflect a preference for flexible, performance-based agreements that prioritize local ownership and sustainable capacity transfer over short-term outputs. Janaqi’s procurement activity is entirely non-set-aside, with 100% of awards issued under general competition without socioeconomic preferences such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB designations. This reflects USAID/Kosovo’s operational context, where the demand for specialized technical expertise often exceeds the capacity of domestic small businesses, necessitating a global talent pool to meet mission-critical objectives. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services), accounting for 75% of her activity, with a secondary emphasis on NAICS 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services). She routinely procures services including institutional assessments, policy advisory support, training design, monitoring and evaluation frameworks, and public administration reform initiatives—domains requiring high levels of analytical rigor and contextual adaptation to fragile institutional environments.