IDM activities

Community Perspectives on Preventing Violent Extremism in Albania IDM in the framework of the regional  project “Opportunities for Preventing Violent Extremism (PVE) in the Western Balkan” in co-operation with Berghof Foundation and with funding from the German Federal Foreign Office, conducted the study: “Community Perspectives on Preventing Violent Extremism in Albania” …

Presentation of the CSOSI 2017 Report for Albania IDM has partnered with USAID and FHI 360 to produce the CSOSI 2017 for Albania, examining the overall sustainability of the CSO sector, by looking at seven specific dimensions of sustainability: legal environment, organizational capacity, financial viability, advocacy, service provision, sectoral infrastructure, and …

Trust in Police is Still Borderline Positive TIRANA, November 6, 2018—Albanian police still deserve the trust of majority citizens despite an 11 percent decrease compared to the last year’s results. Trust in Albanian institutions has been a “roller coaster” – a predominant distrust in 2016 following with major increase in 2017 and …

CIVILISC Project – Sharing good governance practices in Albania and Bulgaria Tirana, September 14, 2018 – Over the past 3 years,  IDM in partnership with RiskMonitor Foundation (Bulgaria) has implemented the project CIVILISC – Civil society Instruments against Corruption, funded by the EU Delegation to Albania aiming to improve the …

Highlights from the presentations of the civic project “Engaging Communities in Civic Education in Albania” This project is working with religiously-affiliated and public high schools in the following communities: Tirana, Shkodra, Durrës, Elbasan, Kavaja, Korça, Librazhd, Pogradec, Prrenjas and Rrogozhina. The students are given ample opportunities to engage in a …

Project kick-off “Networking for participatory rural development” Tirana, April 12, 2018 – Three civil society organizations, representing also the initiating and founding members of the Albanian Network for Rural Development (ANRD), since February 2018 have started the implementation of a three year project, financed by the European Union. The project …

Roundtable Discussion: Rule of law – EU accession’s Achilles heel On March 29 at EU House in Tirana, Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM) organized a roundtable discussion on the topic “Rule of law – EU accession’s Achilles heel”. The focus of this event was to discuss the findings of …

Findings of Opinion Poll “Trust in Governance” 2017 presented in Tirana March 16, 2018 – The Institute for Democracy and Mediation and United Nations Development Programme presented the findings of the Opinion Poll “Trust in Governance 2017” conducted in November 2017. Findings reveal that public institutions that enjoy the highest …

Roundtable Discussion: Assessment of the internal and external control mechanisms in the State Police Tirana, December 12th, 2017 – In the framework of the regional project ” Western Balkan Pulse for Police Integrity and Trust (POINTPULSE)”, IDM organised the Roundtable Discussion: “Assessment of Internal and External Control Mechanisms in the State Police” …

On 30 October 2017, IDM Albania coordinated the second meeting of PAR National Working Group (NWG) in Tirana, Albania. This meeting was organized as part of the regional WeBER project, financed by the European Commission and co-financed by the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Participants in the meeting included 30 CSO representatives from Albania, …