National Resource Centre for Civil Society in Albania

Training on “Project Proposal Writing” – Durres
2023-06-02 09:00 - 18:00 UTC | Durres, Albania
Training on “Project Proposal Writing” in Durres

Civil Society Week 2023
2023-05-29
For the second year in a row, Partners Albania and the National Resource Centre for Civil Society in Albania in partnership with civil society actors throughout the country, during 29 May-3 June 2023, organized Civil Society Week 2023, a series of events and thematic promotion space, dedicated to the work and activity of organizations and civil society activists in the country.
The week creates opportunities for all actors of civil society to come together, as engines of positive changes in society, to discuss and create solutions and joint actions in the future. In line with the European Week and the announcement by the European Commission of 2023 as the “European Year of Skills”. This year, Civil Society Week was dedicated to the activity and contribution of civil society organizations to the education and training of different groups in society, mainly youth and marginalized groups.
Under the motto “Skills for all: To learn, work, engage”, over 120 activities were organized throughout the country, with the participation of civil society organizations, activists, academic institutions, etc. who joint the week
Life skills, employment and self-employment skills, engagement in policymaking skills, digital and green skills, media and information skills, knowledge transfer skills, etc. were just some of the topics raised and addressed throughout the week’s activities, bringing together important actors from the civil society sector,
local and central government institutions, academic institutions, businesses, media, etc. to discuss and address problems and difficulties encountered during the development and further strengthening of skills among all target groups.
Find here a summary of Civil Society Week 2023 activities.

Civil Society Week 2022
2022-05-07 | Tirane, Albania
During 7-17 May 2022, the National Resource Centre for Civil Society and Partners Albania organized for the first time the Week of Civil Society in Albania, a series of events and promotion space dedicated to the work and activity of civil society organizations and activists in the country. In line with the European Union’s decision to designate 2022 as the Year of Youth, with the aim of promoting young people and all initiatives that support young people’s participation in policy-making, social integration and their economic empowerment, the theme selected for the first year of Civil Society Week was exactly YOUTH!
About 60 organizations and hundreds of activists from all over the country, under the facilitation of the National Resource Centre, joined the Civil Society Week with a variety of activities within the framework of their implementation programs supported by various donors and in cooperation with public and private institutions. The week created space for all actors of civil society as catalysts of positive changes in society, to come together, discuss and create solutions and concerted actions in the future. Civil Society Week will be an annual activity that will echo the work and contribution of civil society organizations and activists in various sectors.
Find here a Recap of Civil Society Week 2022.

11th Academy’s lecture on “Strategic communication for NPOs”
2021-11-05 10:00 - 14:00 | Tirane, Albania
11th Academy’s lecture on Strategic communication for NPOs – through this lecture participants increased their knowledge on effective communication, engaging audiences aiming at providing and increasing the number of supporters for their programs. The session focused on providing practical models of using public, private, social media, and knowledge of effective communicating techniques.

10th Academy’s lecture on “Participatory Governance”
2021-10-15 10:00 - 14:00 | Tirane, Albania
10th Academy’s lecture on Participatory Governance – through this lecture participants increased their knowledge on
participatory policy-making and decision-making tools and mechanisms.

9th Academy’s lecture on “Advocacy and Lobbying”
2021-09-30 10:00 - 14:00 | Tirane, Albania
9th Academy’s lecture on Advocacy and Lobbying – through this lecture participants increased their knowledge on
how to use advocacy as a tool to influence decision makers on the issues that they want to address in the community where they work and/or live.

8th Academy’s lecture on “Ensuring public support and working with the private sector -Fundraising and philanthropy”
2021-09-09 10:00 - 14:00 | Tirane, Albania
8th Academy’s lecture on Ensuring public support and working with the private sector -Fundraising and
philanthropy – through this lecture participants increased their knowledge on the concepts and importance of fundraising as a financial sustainability tool. They were introduced to fundraising opportunities and sources of financing from different donors such as public institutions, private sector, EU funding programmes and other foreign donors.

The Monitoring Matrix On Enabling Environment For Civil Society Development, Country Report For Albania 2020
2021-07-12 10:00 - 14:00 | Tirane, Albania
Presentation of main findings of The Monitoring Matrix On Enabling Environment For Civil Society Development, Country Report For Albania 2020 at Regional Level

7th Academy’s lecture on “Mobilization of constituency, networking and coalition building”
2021-07-09 10:00 - 14:00 | Tirane, Albania
7th Academy’s lecture on “Mobilization of constituency, networking and coalition building”: on the network and coalition concepts, its advantages and models, organizing and functioning models, role and members’ responsibilities’, communications among members, ethics and conflict management between partners and members etc

6th Academy’s lecture on “Strategic planning”
2021-06-11 10:00 - 14:00 | Tirane, Albania
6th Academy’s lecture on Strategic planning – the lecture serves as a guide to participants to further understand the role and importance of strategic planning for the organization; get to know the benefits this process brings to the organization and become familiar with the process of developing a strategic plan including steps of plan development and staff and support
engagement

5th Academy’s lecture on “Proposal writing and EU project management”
2021-05-21 10:00 - 14:00 | Tirane, Albania
5th Academy’s lecture on “Proposal writing and EU project management”: focus on EU funding application format such as the format that requires specific knowledge to complete it and will familiarize with the specifics of the project management cycle by analyzing the challenges and making recommendations to overcome these difficulties.

Online Training Programme on “Communication and Social Media: How to get them to know you”
2021-05-21 10:00 - 12:00 | Albania
https://bit.ly/3y4FrYl

4th Academy’s lecture on “Financial Management-Budgeting and accounting and reporting to state authorities”
2021-04-30 10:00 - 14:00 | Tirane, Albania
4th Academy’s lecture on “Financial Management-Budgeting and accounting and reporting to state authorities”: focus on financial management and its principles, budgeting and accounting in non-profit organizations, financial statements, analysis and reporting as well as liabilities and reporting in the state.

Online Training Programme on “Designing & Implementing Crowdfunding Campaigns”
2021-04-28 10:00 - 14:00, 2021-04-28 10:00 - 12:00 | Albania

3rd Academy’s lecture on “Organizational Development & Management”
2021-04-02 10:00 - 14:00 | Tirane, Albania
3rd Academy’s lecture on “Organizational Development & Management”: focus on CSOs governance structures, roles, responsibilities, organizational policies and procedures, and organizational management challenges.

2nd Academy’s lecture on “EU integration and CSOs role in this process”
2021-03-12 10:00 - 14:00 | Tirane, Albania
The milestones of EU integration process of the country; the main challenges of Albania in this process; EU funding programmes for aspiring countries; role of CSOs in the EU integration process etc, were some of the issues addressed with the Academy participants.

Networking Event – The Sustainability of Youth Organizations in the Pandemic and post pandemic period
2021-03-10 10:00 - 14:00 | Tirane, Albania
Based on the issues raised by NPOs at the National Conference of Civil Society in December 2020 and the interest of organizations participating in the thematic workshops of the conference, on March 10, 2021, the National Resource Centre and Partners Albania organized the online networking event “Sustainability of Youth Organizations in the Pandemic and post-pandemic period”.
Over 80 representatives of NPOs, donors, representatives of central and local institutions in the country, academic institutions and the media participated in the event and discussed the challenges, addressing them and strategies to provide support to youth CSOs in the country.
The situation of Covid-19 has been accompanied by changes in the programs and field activity of CSOs and has affected their financial sustainability, especially of local organizations.
The participants in the networking event brought an overview of the situation during the last year of youth organizations and their activity, presented some success models and shared information on programs and strategies of institutions and organizations and youth networks. Invited to the event were also government representatives at the central and local level, Ms. Aspasiana Kongo, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth, Ms. Anisa Subashi, Director of Social Services in the Municipality of Tirana and Mr. Engjell Gjugja, Municipality of Shkodra, which shared with the participants some of the strategies undertaken by state institutions in the country in support of youth, youth organizations, affected by the Covid-19 pandemic situation.
The event created networking opportunities for CSOs and other participating institutions, offering them the opportunity to generate contacts, present their work and specifically discuss promoting dialogue and cooperation of all stakeholders and groups of interest in creating an enabling environment on this issue.

1st Academy’s lecture on “Civil Society Sector Development Trends and NPO Legal framework”
2021-02-25 10:00 - 14:00 | Tirane, Albania
1st Academy’s lecture on “Civil Society Sector Development Trends and NPO Legal framework”: participants have the opportunity to learn on Albanian CSOs legal frame, CSOs organization, functioning and its legal forms; trend of development of the sector, decision making structures and responsibilities within organization internal rules and financial management etc.

Training Online Programme on Fundraising
2021-02-09 10:00 - 14:00 | Albania
Training Online Programme on Fundraising: through this programme training participants increase their knowledge on the concepts and importance of fundraising as a financial sustainability tool. They introduce to fundraising opportunities and source of financing from different donors such as public institutions, private sector, EU funding programmes and other foreign donors.

NPO Academy 2021 application deadline
2021-02-08 | Tirane, Albania

Online Training Programme on “Project Proposal Writing”
2021-01-20 10:00 - 14:00, 2020-11-02 10:00 - 14:00 | Tirane, Albania
Online Training on “Project Proposal Writing”

NPO Academy launching of the Call 2021
2021-01-20 | Tirane, Albania
CSOs Academy is an annual programme that serves as space for non-formal education to enhance skills and develop competencies of civil society organizations executives in Albania. The unique curriculum is offered through contemporaneous learning methodologies.
The Academy is a great opportunity for personal and professional development and for experiences exchange. It has a key contribution in the creation of new generations of professional and committed CSOs executives who will become change actors to contribute in the development of Albanian society.

Online Training on “Storytelling and Public Speaking”
2020-12-15 15:00 - 17:00, 2020-10-29 10:00 - 14:00 | Tirane, Albania

Online Training Programme on European Union’s funding programs and schemes
2020-12-11 10:00 - 14:00 | Albania
Which are the main EU funding programmes, their focus, the application criteria, CSOs challenges

Online Training Programme on “Crowdfunding”
2020-11-12 10:00 - 14:00 | Tirane, Albania
Online Training on “Crowdfunding”

10th Academy’s lecture- “Participatory Governance”
2020-10-02 10:00 - 14:00 | Tirane, Albania
Participatory Governance – through this lecture participants increased their knowledge on participatory policy-making and decision-making tools and mechanisms.
