“Strengthening accountability, transparency and sustainability of civil society organizations People2People Event – Code of Standards for CSOs”
On September 26, 2019, Partners Albania for Change and Development and The National Resource Centre for Civil Society in Albania organized in Tirana a People2People Event on “Strengthening accountability, transparency and sustainability of civil society organizations – Code of Standards for CSOs”. Guest speakers from organizations in the Western Balkans region, as well as representatives from international organizations, shared their experience at the regional and global level, on practices and mechanisms which improve civil society functioning standard.
Creating path of a self-regulating mechanism and increasing the CSOs functioning standard and their transparency were the focus of this event that brought together about 55 representatives of CSOs, international agencies and donors in Albania.
Ms. Juli Hoxha, Director of Partners Albania, Ms. Rocio Moreno Lopez, Director of Accountable Now, Ms. Ilina Neshikj, Executive Director of #BCSDN Network and Ms. Aleksandra Savevska, Project Manager at MCIC were the main speakers at this event, bringing a variety of experiences, mechanism used and local, regional and international perspectives to this regard.
This event was the first of a various of meetings and other activities that National Resource Centre will organize in the forthcoming period aiming to contribute to the increase of accountability and transparency of civil society sector.
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Networking Event “Youth Empowerment”
National Resource Centre for Civil Society and Partners Albania organized on September 20, 2019 the Networking Event “Youth Empowerment”.
The event organzied at the premises of Apollonia Archaeological Park, in Fier, brought together about 180 participants from youth organizations, activists, donors, and public institutions in four panels to discuss on important issues concerning youth such as: Transforming education; Youth volunteering and mobility Economic empowerment, social and cultural inclusion; and Youth participation in decision making.
The networking event aimed at exchanging information among participants on these issues and sharing of their experiences and good practices from their work whether of NPOs, public institutions or donors and development organizations. This event provided CSOs the opportunity to generate contacts and connections for future networking and partnerships.
An information and promotion youth CSOs’ Fair was organized as a side event, showcasing materials and products from CSOs activity all over the country.
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Partners Albania and National Resource Centre for Civil Society organized in May 2019, a round table to present the preliminary findings and recommendations of the “Monitoring Matrix on Enabling Environment for Civil Society – Country Report for Albania 2018”. The meeting served as a discussion forum focused on an analysis of the changes and development of the legal and practical framework affecting the sector occurred during January 2018- February 2019.
Participants were Ms. Alketa Knuti, Deputy Director of General Tax Directorate, representatives of Agency for the support of the Civil Society (ASCS) , representatives of civil society organizations and donor institution in the country.
The following are some of the main findings:
Burdensome reporting procedures and formats, and poor implementation of the consultation processes on draft laws and policies, especially at the central level of government.
The Road Map for Drafting Policies and Measures for Enabling Environment for Civil society 2015-2018, resulted with only 20% of its actions implemented, while the new action plan 2018-2022 has not yet been approved.
The National Council for Civil Society Development is still struggling in its efforts to build a constructive and effective dialogue in advancing the civil society agenda.
The legal package on Social Enterprise is not in line with EU directive and European best practices, presenting several restrictions and state controlling mechanisms for CSOs deriving from the status of SE.
For more findings and recommendations, please read the report.
