Local Governance and Integrated Development

IDM’s vision, as related to the Department of Local Governance and Integrated Development (LGID), is to promote civic participation in the local decision-making processes and to increase the accountability of decision-making actors at the local level. With this in mind, LGID has been working together with local government units throughout Albania in strengthening their capacities to interact better with communities as well as with civic structures in order to raise awareness about their role as key actors in sustainable development. The program area is designed to strengthen the civil society sector in Albania, develop broad community-based partnerships and build a safer community environment. Work mainly concentrates on IDM’s traditional areas of focus as decentralization, capacity building of local governance, community empowerment and civic participation, as well as integrated development mainly consisting in the promotion of EU policies and instruments in the area of integrated rural & regional development.

The Department’s main areas of activity focus on:

  • Improvement of Local Governance  Performance 
  • Monitoring of Decentralization Processes
  • Community Empowerment and Civic Participation
  • Rural and Regional Development
  • Public-Private Partnerships

LGID Team

The present staff of the LGID consists of a group of 4 professionals in the issues of local government, community empowerment, and decentralization, rural and regional development.

LGID team is composed of:

 Sotiraq Hroni, MA. - Acting Head of LGID

 Enea Hoti, PhD Candidate  -Senior Expert

Manjola Stefani, MA - Economic Development Expert

 OrsiolaKurti - Project Manager 

 

 

 

 

                           Erisa Lame - Project Manager 

 

Associates & experts

  • Dr. Etleva Dashi- Associate Expert on Rural Development
  • Dr. Fatmir Guri – Associate Expert on Rural Economy
  • Dr. Zydi Teqja – Senior Expert