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 …
Read More »Modeling Practices of Good Governance through Community Liaisons
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 …
Read More »Albanian Perceptions on NATO Integration
Duration: Thursday, 1 March, 2007 to Saturday, 30 June, 2007 Project Description: Donor: NATO Public Diplomacy Division The project consisted of a survey on Albanian Perceptions on NATO integration. It was conducted in the period March-May 2007 in 10 main cities of Albania and the sample of respondents was concentrated …
Read More »Empowering citizen groups for Police Accountability
Duration: Monday, 1 January, 2007 to Saturday, 30 June, 2007 Project Description: Donor: Casals/USAID 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 …
Read More »Community Policing Academy III
Duration: 2007 – 2008 (finalization of a three year programme) Project Description: Donor: US State Department (Lead) Partner: University of Pittsburgh A three year program of the University of Pittsburgh (PA, USA) and the Institute for Democracy and Mediation designed to improve institutional capacities on community policing was successfully concluded …
Read More »Empowering citizen groups for Police Accountability
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 …
Read More »Moving toward good governance in Shkodra city
Duration: 1 January, 2006 to 28 February, 2007 Donor: Balkan Trust for Democracy Implementation area: Shkodra Project Description: The experience of work in Shkodra since 2001 has strongly convinced IDM of the need to work to develop democracy and citizens’ participation to improve the quality of life. With the support of …
Read More »Publication of the quarterly journal ‘Security Issues”
Duration: 2 January, 2006 – November 2017 Project Description: Donor: Public Diplomacy Division of NATO; Albanian businesses The Security Issues journal was launched by IDM in 2006 with the purpose of promoting a well informed, academic and expert debate on security matters. It provides comprehensive analysis, research papers and articles …
Read More »Building Capacities for Balkan Youth Lobbying
Duration: Sunday, 1 January, 2006 to Sunday, 31 December, 2006 Project Description: Partners: Forum for Ethnic Relations (Belgrade), Center for Research and Policy-Making (Skopje), The Monitoring Center (Podgorica), Kosova Youth Network (Prishtina) Area: Albania, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Macedonia Donor: Open Society Network (SOROS) The Balkan Youth Initiative network that …
Read More »Promoting Local Democracy through Community Liaison
Duration: 1 February, 2006 to 31 January, 2007 Donor: Westminster Foundation for Democracy, UK Project Description: Surrounded by non-believers in the efficiency of the community liaison as a structure that would stand between local government and the community of citizens, IDM with the support of WFD developed a national program to …
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