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Subcontracting with The Urban Institute (USA), under USAID funding.
Start Date: June 1999; Completion date: December 2001
Under this assignment URI have intensively participated in GED activities related to:
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Formulation of the Strategy for Decentralization of Local Governments in Albania;
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Implementation of immediate Strategy decentralization action plan, with input in:
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Formulation of the Law on “Organization and Functioning of Local Government;
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Formulation of Law on “Inventory of State Immovable Public Properties;
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Formulation of Law on “Transfer of Public Properties to Local Government Units.
Adopting the GED working method, in addition of direct involvement with the formulation of the above mentioned immediate reform legislation, URI consultants have organized and conducted several regional roundtables with the participation of locally based central government agencies and a broad participation of local government officials.
GED method has been a unique experience in the country from the view angle of its broad participatory approach, efficiency and effectiveness of activities and outputs deriving from the process. It is the result of this approach which is making the decentralization strategy a successful one, despite the very ambitious its implementation action plan
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