CESA Activities

Project kick-off: School as community Center – Going beyond the school framework Tirana, 19 December 2019 – After months of preparation, the first action plans for the Schools of Community Centers in Durres, Vora, Peqin were approved, marking the start of the implementation of the project “Building community resilience against …

Kick-off of School as Community Center in Kamza The first Steering Committee meeting and signing a Memorandum of Understanding, marked the start of the new project ‘School as Community Center’ in Kamza Tirana, 25 July 2019 – Today IDM organised the first meeting of the newly established Project Steering Committee …

Discussion on State Police Integrity Dilemmas The presentation of the ‘Assessment report on State Police Ethics and Integrity’ based on the hypothetical scenarios survey Tirana, July 2019 – Following our engagement on fostering of police integrity through evidence based policy-making and capacity building of state police staff in institutional corruption …

EU and Albanian think tanks exchange perspectives on Albania’s Europeanization process Tirana, 30 April 2019 – Last week, IDM hosted the first event of the Policy Forum “Europeanization beyond process” series that aims to drive the exchange of ideas and perspectives covering important issues in the process of Europeanization. The …

IDM discussing progress and enlargement with stakeholders in Berlin | 10-12 April 2019 A three day visit of IDM senior representatives took place last week 10 – 12 April 16, 2019 in Berlin with the purpose to discuss Albania’s reforms and prospects for accession negotiations with German decision makers and …

Consultation Forums: Human Resource Management and Financial Management in the State Police Better police force planning to renew the “old” police force in Albania Tirana, 27 December 2018 – Although the implementation of the police vetting process that has not yet started, it will affect the human resources of the police personnel. …

IDM recommends the establishment of an efficient and legitimate National Anti-corruption authority Tirana, 14 December 2018 – IDM jointly with the Supreme State Audit (SAI) organized the conference “Towards an efficient and legitimate National Anti-corruption authority”.  This activity was based on the performance audit report on the “Anti-Corruption Strategy” (SAI) …

Consultation Forums: Internal control and external oversight mechanisms in the State Police Effective internal control mechanisms remain hostage to fragile independence Critical amendments to the law on Service on Internal Affairs and Complaints will contribute to strengthen the independence of the internal control of State Police in Albania Tirana, 11 December …

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” …

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 …