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.