The Albania Climate Finance Conference brought together key national institutions, local governments, development partners and experts to take stock of Albania’s readiness to mobilise climate finance and turn priorities into implementable investments. It focused on what was working, what gaps remained, and how reforms and coordination could unlock stronger funding flows for climate action across […]
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Albania’s forests and pastures cover approximately 65% of the national territory—46% forests and 19% pastures—constituting one of the country’s most critical natural resources. These ecosystems support both environmental integrity and socio-economic development, with forests playing predominantly productive roles and pastures supporting seasonal livestock activities. This land use sector—Forestry and Other Land Use (FOLU)—is vital for […]
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Albania has a national legal basis for climate change; the Ministry of Tourism and Environment is the National Focal Point to the UNFCCC, responsible for the national climate change agenda; an Interministerial Working Group, composed of governmental stakeholders and directed from the Ministry, is the cross-sectorial coordination instrument of the agenda; within the transparency and […]
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The objective of this project was to support the actors of the Consultative Council between central and local governments in Albania to increase its efficiency and effectiveness, enhancing the Consultative Council’s contribution to the advancement of the decentralization agenda of Albania.This project contributed to the improvement of the organization and functioning of the Consultative Council […]
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Helvetas Swiss Intercooperation (HSI) has been awarded by SDC the mandate to implement the “Strong Municipalities” (BF) program in Albania. After a territorial-administrative reform and a decentralization process implying for Albanian municipalities the management of bigger territories and enhanced functions, the project supports municipalities to enhance a citizen-oriented management to improve services. Technical support to […]
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The latest decentralization reform in the country started with law 139/2015 “On Local Self-government” and law 68/2017 “On local self-government finance” and should continue with the analysis of sectorial laws in order to help harmonize the distribution of authority in the two levels of governance for each area of the functions of local self-governance.The two […]
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During the development of the Elbasan Social Service Improvement Action Plan under the Performance Management Project, a key concern emerged, i.e. the lack of consistent and comprehensive information on available social services. As a result, the working group, led by the Urban Research Institute, developed a plan to establish an information center – which became […]
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After their official creation in September 2015, the 61 municipalities of Albania had to design for the first time the local budget based on a three-year program of implementation of municipal functions, including for the first time also the new territory under administration after the Territorial and Administration Reform. URI provided technical assistance to the […]
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This project assisted pre-selected Local Government Units in the elaboration of medium-term budget programs based on their strategic planning documents, along with the preparation of the annual budget, fiscal package and FPT. Factsheet
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