• Future Challenges

Based on the successful establishment and experience of SMN during the last year, IDM with the support of partner organizations would further consolidate the activity of SMN on research and monitoring work of security sector issues and institutions. For next 3 years SMN would develop a twofold perspective: team training on “Performance Based Management Methodology” and training on “Advanced Research on Security Studies”.  Aware of the diversity in the fields of expertise that the network members enjoy, the monitoring of the implementation of policies in the SSR will be conducted in various angles.
•    Monitoring the drafting process and the implementation of the new National Security Strategy, that will cover subjects related to their field of expertise such as: human security, protection of dignity and national values, Euro-Atlantic integration, rule of law etc;
•    Monitoring public satisfaction of police performance. This is a regular review related to the performance of police activity, since IDM during the past has conducted various surveys on this subject.
•    Monitoring the implementation of legislation and other regulations on community policing strategy. This strategy has entered in the 4th year of implementation, however has not provided any results while the process is lacking the evaluation and assessment tools due to the absence of periodical monitoring reports.
•    Monitoring and annual reporting of policy implementation of security sector institutions especially the role of parliamentary commission on National Security as regards democratic control and oversight of security sector institutions.
•    Since ‘gender balance’ has been introduced as an important component of the security sector reform in Albania, SMN in the future (through research and analysis) will concentrate on the possibilities to enhance public policies concerning gender balance and issues related to the security sector institutions.
•    A research study on human resources management in the Armed Forces and State Police. The main objective of this research is to analyze the reform process in the armed forces and in the state police structures related to conditions offered to respective officers for career, while examining the dismissal practices in the military and police ranks for well educated officers and personnel.
•    Research on trends of the development of social trust and authority in the framework of law enforcement during the last 20 years in Albania. This would constitute a sound opportunity to better understand the democratic pace of the institutions in regards to obligations, responsibilities, and values. By examining the relations between social trust and democracy in a region undergoing political and economic change we can be able to assess the causal direction of the relations between trust and democratic performance in a context in which there is substantial variation in levels of democracy.
•    In the future the network will continue to produce policy briefs and reports on different issues of Security Sector Reform.
•    The members would be involved in the activities of IDM, in the organization of round-tables, conferences and public debates with key stakeholders and representatives from various institutions in the security sector.