Dear Site Visitor,

It is an honor for me to have you visit our website.

Through this greeting note I want to thank you all for the interest in our organization and at the same time want to take the opportunity to introduce you with Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM).

Founded on November 1999, IDM is an independent, non-governmental organization working to strengthen the Civil Society sector in Albania, to develop broad community-based partnerships focused on increasing communities’ understanding and capacities to participate in democratic processes for an improved governance at all levels, build safe community environment and work together for the common good.

IDM’s choice of activities to achieve its strategic objectives is an effort to go beyond simple one time delivery projects. They form part of a continuing attempt to strengthen shared values and shared confidences across the broad spectrum of political and non-political actors in Albania as the country moves towards strengthening its institutions, law enforcement and rule of law. IDM believes that through partnerships with the international organizations and institutions it remains crucial to develop local ownership of reforms that would lead to the full integration of Albania in Euro-Atlantic community of democracies. 

In IDM, we all believe that people affected by decisions should be part of decision making processes. Therefore, IDM seeks to promote increased community participation and contributes to the development of legal frameworks that allow and enable such participation in decision making processes at all levels.

IDM is an organization that has friends and collaborators in Albania and other parts of the world that have contributed to development and strengthening of the organization. We find the opportunity to thank them all and give them the opportunity to take pride in the work that they have done supporting this organization.

Having such philosophical beliefs we encourage you to visit our site and look at our contributions through our programs and projects implemented in different parts of the country.

Again welcome and wish you a great time surfing and searching through our website.

Respectfully

Sotiraq Hroni