Final Report - European Commission - Europa

Preface
The Albania Country Strategy Evaluation (CSE) has been carried out as one of a series of
CSE exercises on EC assistance programmes worldwide, undertaken on behalf of the
Evaluation Unit of EuropeAid office of the European Commission.
The analysis and recommendations are built on assessments of both the preparation and the
implementation of the EC’s strategy in Albania. The report is based on a mission to Albania
by Messrs. Jonathan Portes, Carlos Montes (joint team managers), Simon Groom, and Daniel
Tommasi that took place from 29 April to 11 May 2001. The findings of the draft report were
presented in Brussels on 12 June 2001, and the draft report was submitted on July 2 2001.
This final report takes into account the comments made on that draft by Commission officials
in Brussels and Tirana.
The evaluators carried out an extensive review of Delegation files, available audits, reviews
and evaluations, and interviews with Commission staff, other donors, Government officials,
and private sector and civil society organisations (80 interviews in total, Annex 2). The
programme of evaluation activities followed the standard methodology applied in all previous
country strategy evaluations. The report does not necessarily reflect the views of the
European Commission.
This report benefited from the collaboration of the Commission Delegation in Albania and
that of Albanian Government officials, as well as the assistance of members of civil society
and the private sector, to all of whom we are grateful.
Evaluation Director EC Country Strategy Evaluations:
Carlos Montes
The following Country Strategy Evaluations have been carried out by the Development Strategies/IDC
team: South Africa, Senegal, Azerbaijan, Papua New Guinea, Dominican Republic, Turkmenistan,
Mozambique, Uganda, Namibia, and Burkina Faso. Copies are available on the evaluation unit website
(currently at http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/evaluation/program) and from the evaluation
unit, EuropeAid, European Commission.