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Switzerland’s cooperation programme in Kosovo began with its participation in an OSCE verification mission. During the armed conflict in 1998–1999, it set up an extensive humanitarian aid programme. Since the year 2000, humanitarian actions and programmes to assist the return of persons displaced by the war were soon complemented by reconstruction-assistance measures and by projects to foster livelihoods, to promote culture and to aid development. A medium-term cooperation programme (2004-2006) and a strategic orientation 2007-2008 served to steer Switzerland's course of action in Kosovo up until it declared its independence on 17 February 2008.  Subsequently, based on the priorities of the Government of Kosovo and on Switzerland's policy for the Balkans, a new cooperation strategy SDC/SECO 2009-2012 was published.

The Swiss programme is coordinated by the Swiss Cooperation Office in Pristina. It is run jointly by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), Swiss Federal Department for Economic Affairs.<>

The Federal Office for Migration (FOM) Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police also contributes to the Swiss cooperation programme in Kosovo.

* planned; total based on available data

Bilateral development cooperation excluding program contributions to NGOs .. = figures not available | – = nil

Development Cooperation: Priorities

The 2009–2012 Swiss Cooperation Programme focuses on the following priorities:

• Economy and employment: development of the private sector, rehabilitation of horticulture, vocational training and jobs for youth, advice on quality standards, along with structural and institutional reforms to support economic growth and employment;
• Rule of law and democracy: local governance and decentralization, minority rights, modernization of institutions, settlement of disputes on property-right claims, and strengthening of civil society. 
• Public infrastructure: hydraulic and electric infrastructures in the south-eastern part of Kosovo, sustainable management of water resources.
• Migration, in conjunction with the Federal Office for Migration: migration partnership between Switzerland and Kosovo, strengthening of Kosovo's migration authorities, social services for sections of the population under considerable pressure to migrate, Swiss-Kosovo relations with the diaspora and the Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian minorities.

The key principles in which Swiss cooperation with Kosovo is embedded are those of equal opportunity for men and women, inclusion of all communities into the projects, good governance and regional cooperation.