Infrastructure and Public Services

Beneficiaries Survey and Assessment of the Impact of the Project Outcomes

The project currently consists of assisting the Government of Albania in developing, Sustainable Tourism in the Southern Coastal of Albania through supporting investments in (i) Critical Public Environmental infrastructure and Municipal Services; (ii) Remediation and Containment of pollution hazards from a former chemical plant in Porto Romano, and (ii) Community Infrastructure Improvements and Revitalization and […]

Waste Management and Environmental Protection, IPA Cross Border Cooperation Albania-Kosova

The specific objective of the project is to increase the knowledge and engagement of 5000 students, 300 teachers and 1000 citizens in the region on the benefits of sustainable waste management and recycling for environmental protection and economic development. The lack of awareness, education and activity amongst citizens on environmental issues has been detrimental to […]

Recycling and Waste standards in Lezha

The main objective of this project was the expansion of the actual coverage of urban waste separate collection in the Municipality of Lezha. Factsheet

Improving local services with the participation of qualified observers

This project implemented in the municipality served not only to improve the method of budgeting with the participation of citizens, but of all the analytical documentation of actual quality assessment and clearing roads to every village, stating the basis of the outcome indicators that will help staff for setting clear objectives during the budgeting process […]

Participatory Plastic Clean Up and Waste Management in Lezha

This initiative started with the BELLS movement for awareness and advocacy on environmental issues and was followed by the project titled ‘Participatory Plastic Waste Cleaning and Waste Management in Lezha Municipality’ funded by the Embassy of the Netherlands and implemented by the Urban Research Institute and the Municipality. After the initial stage was set successfully, […]

Participatory Capital Investment Program in Kavaja

The Capital Investment Planning document contains a list of projects selected by the Citizens Committee for a period of 3-5 years, including: 1. Short description of each project, 2. The total project cost and cost of financing for each year and for each stage (draft, tender, construction, etc.), 3. Urban and picture presentation of the […]

Participatory Budgeting and Monitoring in Korca and Pogradec

The project aimed at strengthening community participation in governance and civil society, through their involvement in all stages of the budget cycle that is related to: identification of investment according to local needs, assessing the capacity to support the projects, preparation of budget proposal in Municipality Council, overseeing the procession of the adoption of the […]

Participatory Urban Planning of Orikum City

Participatory Urban Planning (PUP) in Orikum, is designed with the objective to improve local governance and accountability in Orikum municipality by (i) building the capacity of local government officials and civic groups to engage in consultations that are focused and goal-oriented towards solving community problems; and, (ii) on a pilot basis, introducing short and long […]

Tailoring Global MDG Water Supply and Sanitation Targets and Indicators to Local Conditions in ECA (Georgia, Tajikistan, Albania)

This situation is predominantly affected by high level of infrastructure deterioration whichoutcome is massive water losses and often accompanied with intrusion of wastewaters,therefore causing pollution of potable water. Investments needed in both water and sanitationfor the next 10 coming years for matching with EU standards are estimated at 150-170 MillionUS dollars, at least three times […]