Niche Capabilities: Local Governance, Decentralization, Community Empowerment

  • Experience in projects addressing challenges of the Albanian reality in a grassroots, bottom-up approach as well the top institutional leadership involvement.
  • Good Governance and Community Mobilization through stimulating citizens groups involvement in community affairs, improve institutional accountability to the citizens, and community mobilization
  • Improve capacities of Local Government structures and providing advice/guidance through workshops and trainings
  • Partnerships and responsibility sharing at the local level among public and private institutions and the citizens
  • Undertake and advocate reforms and legal initiatives to improve governance
  • Develop partnerships to improve cross-border cooperation
  • Cross-border joint projects with different partners in other Balkan countries
  • Promotion of Local Democracy through mediating structures and Community Based Groups
  • Institutionalize links between local government and the community of citizens and develop community participation schemes
  • Capacity building and sustainability of local structures via Public-Private-Civic Partnerships