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Tirana Creditworthiness Enhancement Programme (CEP)
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EBRD has launched the Tirana Creditworthiness Enhancement Programme (CEP) to provide the City of Tirana with technical assistance in the area of financial management. The project aims to generate a sufficient budget surplus, have sufficient money to make debt repayments and service the loan (including interest), and stabilize and maintain this situation for the loan repayment period. The Tirana Creditworthiness Enhancement Programme is in line with the fiscal decentralization framework of Albanian government while it is considered by the City of Tirana not only as a program of technical assistance in servicing the loan, but also as a program for strengthening the financial management capacity of the City of Tirana before entering into the internal and external financial marketsmore
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Participatory Urban Planning
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Urban Research Institute is contracted by the United States of America Embassy in Albania,for the implementation of the "Participatory Urban Planning" project. After the selection of the LGU to be involved in the project, Kavaja, URI has started with the implementation of the project.more
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Participatory Sub-Project Identification; Community Works II Project
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URI was subcontracted by Albanian Development Found/WB, to assist in the identification and selection of priorities for the villages, communes, municipalities of Albania.
The main goal to be achieved by introducing Participatory Identification was to accomplish participation, involvement and empowerment of communities in villages of Albania...more
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Market Assessment
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The project for the Agricultural Services is financed from the World Bank and so far it’s in the half of its six years implementation period.
The project’s objectives from various components include some sectors that aim to setup an environment that leads to rural revenue increase addressing main challenges that small Albanian farmers face in the agriculture produce, commerce and well functioning of land market.
URI’s undertook an evaluation that included the component for the markets and grants for the farmers...more
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Local Development Planning and Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation in Albania - Community Works Project II (CWP II)
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As part of its commitment to build the capacity of Albanian local government to engage in sustainable and participatory development, the Albanian Development Fund (ADF) has commissioned the Urban Institute and URI as its local partner, in collaboration with ADF staff, to devise a comprehensive structure and methodology for Local Development Planning (LDP) and Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (PME) to be implemented in five communes of Albania. The key precepts of the LDP and PME framework are that it is participatory in design and implementation, and meaningful, that is, feasible, to all beneficiaries concerned...more
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Beneficiary Assessment of the World Bank Community Works Program -I, (CWP-I)
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The assignment included development and implementation of an evaluation methodology for the assessment of benefits out of the implementation of infrastructure projects financed by Albanian Development Fund under World Bank funding.more
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Strengthening of Decentralization and Local Governance in Albania
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Long-term objective of this project aimed to improve governance at the local level. Better governed municipalities/communes will be able to shoulder new decentralized responsibilities, and this in turn will increase the prospects for enhanced economic development.more
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