partners - albania programs

INTRODUCTION
Starting from September 2006, Partners - Albania is implementing partner of the Chemonics
International in the Public Administration Reform Program, in support of the Albania’s
Millennium Challenge Account Threshold Country Plan (MCCPAR).
This ambitious two-years long program aims to reduce the corruption practices and to
improve the investment situations through assistance in three areas: Tax Administration,
Public Procurement and Business Registration. Based on its experience and expertise,
Partners - Albania will cover in this program the component of public education and information.
Since its creation, Partners - Albania has become a member of Partners for Democratic
Change International. This network consists of centers in 15 various countries of the
world (Albania, Argentina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Georgia, Hungary, Jordan, Kosovo,
Lithuania, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and USA), which work to further
advance good governance, civil society and promote the culture of change and conflict
management world-wide.
It is since January 2006, that Partners for Democratic Change International registered in
Bruxeless as an official network, and started functioning with an operational office since
July 2006.
Partners - Albania staff continues to further increase its capacities and improve its expertise
through involment in a series of specialized Training for Trainers programs offered
by affiliated members of the Network of Partners for Democratic Change International,
as well as other partner organisations in international level. In this framework, staff capacities
of Partners - Albania with regard to new programatic areas have been further
strengthened.
Due to the accumulated expertise and the reputation of the centre in years, in the last two
years of its activity, Partners - Albania has been selected by many organisations, national
and international institutions to offer training to their staff or different groups of interest.
Thus, in addition to training and assistance offered in the framework of the above-mentioned
programs (DGA, NOSA), in the period 2005-2006, Partners - Albania has managed
23 service contracts in and out of the country.
In the international level, program beneficiaries have been representatives of non-forprofit
sector in the Balkans (Kosovo, Montenegro and Macedonia), in former Soviet-
Union Republics (Tajikistan) and Middle East countries such as Iraque and Jordan.
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