LGID Projects

Duration: 11 September, 2008 to 11 July, 2009 Project Description:  Donor: Irish Aid Partners: Rural Workshop Foundation (RWF) and Hungarian Rural Parliament (HRP) The project strategy was formulated based on extensive local and national knowledge of problems in Albania and comprehensive analysis of the political, social and economic context. The up …

Duration: 1 June, 2008 to 1 December, 2008  Donor: World Learning Location: Shkodër, Shqipëri Project Description: The project focuses on an extremely important condition for an open, transparent and accountable local government: the involvement of citizens in the system of local governance. It follows the best practices and the experience established …

Duration: 1 May, 2008 to 1 May, 2009 Project Description:  Donor: Balkan Trust for Democracy (BTD) This project aims to transform the until now IDM’s undertaken community actions in the city of Shkodra into a self-sustainable reality, by further developing social cohesion through concrete empowerment of both citizens and local …

Duration: 1 April, 2008 to 30 June, 2008  Partners: Institute of International Sociology of Gorizia (ISIG, Italy), Central European Initiative (CEI), Hellenberg International Ltd (Finland), European Maritime Partnership (EMP, Italy), Institute for International Relations (IMO, Croatia) Project Description: This project is based on the notion that Adriatic seaways, with their commercial …

Duration: Saturday, 1 March, 2008 Project Description:  Donor: United Nations Development Program (UNDP) – Program Empowering the Vulnerable Communities in Albania The Project aimed to train 10-15 mediators, members of the Roma and Egyptian communities. The mediators are expected to act as a network of volunteers training community members on …

Duration: 1 January, 2008 to 30 June, 2008  Donor: East East: Partnership Beyond Borders Program; US Embassy in Tirana. Partners: Macedonian Centre for International Cooperation (MCIC) and Kosovar Institute for Policy Research and Development (KIPRED) Project Description: The aim of the project was to promote best experiences and practices of community …

Duration:  1 August, 2007 to  31 July, 2008 Donor: OSFA Soros Foundation (Albania) Project Description: The Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM) and the Institute for Development Research & Alternatives, financially supported by Soros Foundation (Albania) have carried out a one year project on decentralization with special focus on the interactions …

Duration: 1 July, 2007 to  30 June, 2008 Donor: Balkan Trust for Democracy (BTD) Project Description: This project was designed to stimulate intensive citizen’s engagement in the decision making by creating new CBGs and Community Centers and by making sustainable the existed ones. Also it aimed to create more active collaboration …

Duration:  1 March, 2007 to 15 February, 2008 Donor: US Embassy in Tirana Project Description: IDM has started the implementation of a one year project focusing on efforts linking the community of citizens with the system of governance at the local level and building (self) sustainable structures that will struggle to …

Duration:  1 December, 2006 to  15 June, 2007 Supported: Casals/USAID Location: Tiranë, Durrës Project Description: The State Police is the main institution that provides public safety and order in Albania. As it happens with other state institutions in the country, certain elements of the State Police reportedly are corrupted, abuse with …