OSCE Presence in Albania

Projects currently being implemented by the Presence:

Security Co-operation

Albania State Police Capacity Development Project

Goal: Provide assistance to the Albanian State Police to strengthen relations between the Albanian State Police, as the main law-enforcement agency, and civil society, other state institutions and minority groups, and to improve police response in the area of crowd control.

Cross-border co-operation project

Goal: Assist the Border and Migration Police to become a more effective law-enforcement agency by improving and strengthening mutual trust and co-operation among police in the region.

Electronic Offender Monitoring Programme

Goal: Assist in the establishment of an effective programme for electronic monitoring of offenders through the completion of a needs assessment and strategy document.

Governance in Economic and Environmental Issues

Support to the High Inspectorate for the Declaration and Audit of Assets in its efforts to secure broader stakeholder co-operation in the fight against corruption

Goal: Support the High Inspectorate for the Declaration and Audit of Assets in strengthening its efforts in preventing and fighting corruption and promoting good-governance values. Donor: Luxembourg.

Prevention of human trafficking through capacity-building of Regional Anti-Trafficking Committees

Goal: Upgrade the role of the Regional Anti-Trafficking Committees in preventing human trafficking and exploitation and in providing protection to trafficked persons.

Supporting government authorities to ensure compliance with environmental standards and the National Waste Strategy

Goal: To support the local government units of the Vjosa Valley in developing local waste plans through environmental education and environmental governance.

Strengthening national efforts in preventing and fighting corruption

Goal: To strengthen the capacities of state institutions in preventing corruption.

Technical assistance to the Property Restitution and Compensation Agency

Goal: To improve the IT infrastructure and data management capacity of the Property Restitution and Compensation Agency.

Democratization

Training local media

Goal: To strengthen independent media and media institutions, cultivating responsible media freedom and supporting good journalistic practice. Donors: Switzerland, Press Now.

Support for the digitalization of Albanian television

Goal: To assist the National Council of Radio and Television in drafting a national regulatory strategy for the radio and television sector as part of audio-visual developments in Albania. Donor: Austria.

Enhancing women's role in governance

Goal: To increase the active participation of women in electoral processes and fight the practice of family voting; increase the capacity of elected female officials and other women pursuing public leadership to advocate for themselves and become a lobbying force, thereby making public authorities more responsive and accountable to women's needs/rights; provide for networking opportunities for women leaders in politics, public administration, civil society and NGOs. Donors: The Netherlands, Swedish International Development Agency.

Albanian Parliamentary Support Project (Phase III)

Goal: Support the Parliament in continuing to achieve its own goals to become a more effective, professional, transparent and a more responsive institution. Donors: Austria, Austrian Development Agency, Germany.

Strengthening the institutional capacities of the Albanian National Council of People with Disabilities (Phase II)

Goal: To strengthen the capacities of the National Council of People with Disabilities.

Election reporting media training 

Goal: To raise the level of professionalism in election reporting through better knowledge of the election process.

Assisting the effective functioning of the gender-equality mechanism in Albania 

Goal: To further strengthen the gender-equality mechanism at the central level.

Building active citizenship in Albania (Phase II) 

Goal: Promote active citizenship through the education system.

Rule of Law and Human Rights

Protection of children in the justice system

Goal: Provide the Albanian judicial system with professional training in the area of child protection and ensure that minors will be treated according to international standards, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child; improved cooperation between various child-protection actors. Donors: France, Finland.

Development of a probation education system in Albania

Goal: To increase the knowledge and skills of probation officers and develop a uniform and effective probation practice throughout Albania.

Fair Trial Development Project (Phase II)

Goal: Analysis and recommendations to improve the civil justice system in Albania are provided to the Albanian justice sector at large.

Support for the Civil Service Commission's activities

Goal: Improve implementation of civil-service legislation.

Effective Probation Practice in Albania (Phase III) 

Goal: Make probation officers and social workers more aware of probation issues and improve co-operation among actors in the probation system.