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Country programme document for Albania (2017-2021)

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Executive Board of theUnited Nations DevelopmentProgramme, the United NationsPopulation Fund and the United Nations Office forProject Services

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6-9 September 2016, New YorkItem 3 of the provisional agendaCountry programmes and related matters

Country programme document for Albania (2017-2021)

ContentsChapter Page

I. Programme rationale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

4II. Programme priorities and partnerships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

III. Programme and risk management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

7 IV. Monitoring and evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Annex

Results and resources framework for Albania (2017-2021) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

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I. Programme rationale

1. After 46 years of communism, Albania began its democratic and market transition in 1991. Today, Albania is a functioning parliamentary-presidential democracy. Since June 2014, it is a candidate country for accession to the European Union (EU). With a gross national income per capita of $4,450, Albania is an upper-middle-income country in the high human development category.1 Following the 2008 Eurozone crises, however, growth stalled and the percentage of people living in poverty increased from 12.4 to 14.3 per cent of the population, reaching 18 per cent among women.2 In the past decade, Albania’s population decreased by 9 per cent, to 2.8 million, due to migration. In 2015 alone, some 65,000 young men and women left the country in search of jobs and opportunities in Western Europe.3 The Government aims to reverse this trend and put the country on a path of sustainable and equitable growth through ensuring macroeconomic stability and competitiveness and by investing in people and social cohesion.4 These objectives of the National Strategy for Development and Integration (NSDI) are underpinned by the strategic objective of ensuring good governance and rule of law for the ultimate aim of EU accession.

2. Albania’s institutions still struggle with ensuring trust. The underlying challenge is the politicization of public institutions whereby citizens rely on political patronage or informal networks in their search for opportunities, services and justice. More than half of Albanians think that the judiciary and electoral management bodies are politicized. One third report corruption in their dealings with public institutions. 5

Overcoming this challenge of politicization is at the heart of the national reform agenda for meeting the political criteria for EU accession 6: the functioning of a professional and depoliticized public administration and an independent judiciary; measurable results in the fight against corruption and crime; and protection of rights, notably property rights and the rights of Roma. This reform agenda for depoliticization of the administration and state institutions must be accompanied by systematic functional improvements in institutional capacities so that reforms turn into real-life improvements in the lives of men and women who turn to public institutions for services, justice and opportunities.

3. Strengthening the effectiveness, transparency, accountability and service orientation of public institutionsis the main pathway towards building trust in institutions and enabling their developmental functionality. 7

More inclusive and gender-responsive, evidence-based policymaking and legislation are required for reducing inequities and corruption risks. Civil society needs space and systems so that people can hold public institutions to account. 8 At the local level, Albania undertook historic reforms of its administrative and political structure by consolidating 373 local administration units into 61 functional municipalities. A visionary gender quota in 2015 resulted in women comprising 35 per cent of local political leadership. Local administrations now shoulder the principal responsibility for service delivery but lack the necessary financial and human resources.9 Municipal revenue is planned to increase twofold by 2020.10 Transparent and inclusive decision-making, with women having equal voice especially over redistributive investments, is essential for creating real-life benefits for families11 and for building trust in institutions.

4. Albania’s social protection system does not address the gender-based and social determinants of poverty and social exclusion.12 Groups at higher risk of poverty and exclusion are Roma, Egyptians and persons with disabilities. Roma are among the poorest and most marginalized.13 The 2011 census identified some 12,000

1 Human Development Report, 2015, Human Development Index 0.733.2 Albania: Trends in Poverty 2002-2012, Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)/World Bank, 2013.3 http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Asylum_statistics 4 National Strategy for Development and Integration, Government of Albania, 2015-2020.5 Open Government Partnership, Trust in Government Survey (2014, 2015). 6 European Union Progress Report, 2015.7 Cross-cutting Public Administration Reform Strategy 2015-2020. 8 Ibid. 9 United States Agency for International Development, Creating an Equitable, Transparent, and Predictable Unconditional Grant Formula, September 2015. 10 Decentralization Strategy http://www.ceshtjetvendore.gov.al/files/pages_files/15-04-20-02-59-36Decentralisation_Strategy_Final_-_Feb_2015_-_English.pdf 11 Ibid. 12 INSTAT/World Bank, 2013. 13 Needs Assessment Study on Roma and Egyptian Communities, UNDP, 2012.

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I. Programme rationale

1. After 46 years of communism, Albania began its democratic and market transition in 1991. Today, Albania is a functioning parliamentary-presidential democracy. Since June 2014, it is a candidate country for accession to the European Union (EU). With a gross national income per capita of $4,450, Albania is an upper-middle-income country in the high human development category.1 Following the 2008 Eurozone crises, however, growth stalled and the percentage of people living in poverty increased from 12.4 to 14.3 per cent of the population, reaching 18 per cent among women.2 In the past decade, Albania’s population decreased by 9 per cent, to 2.8 million, due to migration. In 2015 alone, some 65,000 young men and women left the country in search of jobs and opportunities in Western Europe.3 The Government aims to reverse this trend and put the country on a path of sustainable and equitable growth through ensuring macroeconomic stability and competitiveness and by investing in people and social cohesion.4 These objectives of the National Strategy for Development and Integration (NSDI) are underpinned by the strategic objective of ensuring good governance and rule of law for the ultimate aim of EU accession.

2. Albania’s institutions still struggle with ensuring trust. The underlying challenge is the politicization of public institutions whereby citizens rely on political patronage or informal networks in their search for opportunities, services and justice. More than half of Albanians think that the judiciary and electoral management bodies are politicized. One third report corruption in their dealings with public institutions. 5

Overcoming this challenge of politicization is at the heart of the national reform agenda for meeting the political criteria for EU accession 6: the functioning of a professional and depoliticized public administration and an independent judiciary; measurable results in the fight against corruption and crime; and protection of rights, notably property rights and the rights of Roma. This reform agenda for depoliticization of the administration and state institutions must be accompanied by systematic functional improvements in institutional capacities so that reforms turn into real-life improvements in the lives of men and women who turn to public institutions for services, justice and opportunities.

3. Strengthening the effectiveness, transparency, accountability and service orientation of public institutionsis the main pathway towards building trust in institutions and enabling their developmental functionality. 7

More inclusive and gender-responsive, evidence-based policymaking and legislation are required for reducing inequities and corruption risks. Civil society needs space and systems so that people can hold public institutions to account. 8 At the local level, Albania undertook historic reforms of its administrative and political structure by consolidating 373 local administration units into 61 functional municipalities. A visionary gender quota in 2015 resulted in women comprising 35 per cent of local political leadership. Local administrations now shoulder the principal responsibility for service delivery but lack the necessary financial and human resources.9 Municipal revenue is planned to increase twofold by 2020.10 Transparent and inclusive decision-making, with women having equal voice especially over redistributive investments, is essential for creating real-life benefits for families11 and for building trust in institutions.

4. Albania’s social protection system does not address the gender-based and social determinants of poverty and social exclusion.12 Groups at higher risk of poverty and exclusion are Roma, Egyptians and persons with disabilities. Roma are among the poorest and most marginalized.13 The 2011 census identified some 12,000

1 Human Development Report, 2015, Human Development Index 0.733.2 Albania: Trends in Poverty 2002-2012, Institute of Statistics (INSTAT)/World Bank, 2013.3 http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Asylum_statistics 4 National Strategy for Development and Integration, Government of Albania, 2015-2020.5 Open Government Partnership, Trust in Government Survey (2014, 2015). 6 European Union Progress Report, 2015.7 Cross-cutting Public Administration Reform Strategy 2015-2020. 8 Ibid. 9 United States Agency for International Development, Creating an Equitable, Transparent, and Predictable Unconditional Grant Formula, September 2015. 10 Decentralization Strategy http://www.ceshtjetvendore.gov.al/files/pages_files/15-04-20-02-59-36Decentralisation_Strategy_Final_-_Feb_2015_-_English.pdf 11 Ibid. 12 INSTAT/World Bank, 2013. 13 Needs Assessment Study on Roma and Egyptian Communities, UNDP, 2012.

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citizens as belonging to the Roma and Egyptian communities, although the actual figures are significantly higher.14 The evident exclusion of Roma in neighbourhoods underscores the need for greater policy coherence between local and central authorities and for targeted municipal action. There are only few examples of accessible public facilities for persons with disabilities, and assistance schemes are limited to financial benefits, prone to corruptive practice and unable to remove barriers for these people. Some 60 per cent of women in Albania experience some form of violence during their lifetime, but only 15 per cent of survivors report seeking help from institutions, with majority of women seeking protection from family networks. 15 These concerns echo the findings from the universal periodic review. On the other hand, Albania’s track record for religious tolerance and social harmony is a unique asset for social cohesion.

5. Labour market inactivity, especially of women, is an obstacle to growth. Young men and women seek the agency of family or patronage networks for job opportunities, especially for coveted jobs in the public sector. 16

Labour market participation is therefore is low, at 33.5 per cent for young women and 55.1 per cent for men. The youth unemployment rate of 34.2 per cent is nearly double the national average. 17 A sense of relative deprivation and frustrated expectations, including for employment, are drivers for outmigration and potentially for radicalization among young men.18 Yet, almost half of employers in Albania report difficulties in finding sufficiently skilled workers. Only 3.5 per cent of jobseekers benefit from employment programmes. 19 One third of unemployed youth are neither in education nor in training. One third of young women do not seek work because of family obligations.20 The vocational and tertiary education systems are fragmented and unable to provide young people with the skills needed for their European future.

6. Households and enterprises suffer from frequent energy cuts, especially in winter months. Almost all electricity is generated from hydro resources, but the energy import scheme to cover gaps is costly, pointing to the underutilization of other renewable sources, e.g., solar energy. High energy use per unit of gross domestic product21 underscores untapped potential in energy efficiency investments. Albania hosts diverse ecosystems, 450 kilometres of coastal line and six river catchments. However, the protected areas system is chronically underfunded and understaffed.22 New co-management systems with local, regional and central authorities are needed, as are financing mechanisms to spur innovations for energy efficiency and environmental protection. Albania’s vulnerabilities to climate change and natural disasters are under-addressed in national and especially local development planning.23 Governance mechanisms trusted by citizens are needed to manage the trade-offs between environmental sustainability, resilience and short-term gains.

7. Through the period 2012-2016, UNDP contributed in all of these areas, building the foundations for continuity and expansion. UNDP was most successful when it supported nationally driven reforms (e.g., territorial reform) and where its pilot contributions were institutionalized and integrated within the public policy framework.24 For example, the piloting and then policy-level adoption of prevention and service mechanisms (coordinated community response) for responding to gender-based violence is a national achievement attributed to UNDP.25 The newly amalgamated local government units provide pathways for UNDP to scale this practice to all municipalities and for gender mainstreaming in local service delivery. Consistent pursuit of United Nations values in human rights and maintaining national policy attention on equity and social inclusion distinguished the UNDP country programme.26 Going forward, noting that Albania will begin negotiations on EU accession, UNDP and its United Nations partners must maintain a pol icy focus

14 Roma and Egyptian Associations estimate 120,000 to 200.000.15 Domestic Violence in Albania, UNDP/INSTAT, 2013. 16 http://europeandcis.undp.org/blog/2013/02/13/albania-young-people-talk-jobs-and-what-they-want-post2015/ 17 INSTAT, Labour Force Survey, 2015.18 Institute for Democracy and Mediation, Religious Extremism in Albania, 2015 19 National Employment Service (NES), Skills Needs Analysis 2014.20 INSTAT, Labour Force Survey, 2014. 21 UNDP nationally appropriate mitigation action report 2014.22 National Protected Areas Agency: http://akzm.gov.al 23 Policy Document on Climate Change Adaptation, UNDP-Ministry of Environment, 2013. 24 Albania Assessment of Development Results (ADR), 2016. 25 Ibid, p.36.26 Ibid p.36.

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on social inclusion and associated action plans.27 However, UNDP also risked capacity substitution when it collected data, evidence and knowledge to aid line ministries’ policy development functions. 28 UNDP will address this risk by focusing more on the implementation capacities of newly amalgamated local government units in support of real-life improvements. Another UNDP comparative advantage was its management arrangements, made possible by the skills and competency of its national staff, to co-design and co-manage programme outputs with national and local partners, including civil society. This ensured responsiveness while reinforcing national ownership. The management capacity of UNDP presents its national and international partners with an asset through which to channel technical and financial assistance towards reform objectives. 29

II. Programme priorities and partnerships

8. Programme priorities are drawn from the United Nations Programme of Cooperation for Sustainable Development 2017–2021, which in turn supports select objectives of the NSDI for 2015-2020. Programme priorities reflect the comparative advantages of UNDP in supporting national reforms, upholding val ues of rights and equity and promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment. UNDP will leverage its past achievements and seek to reinforce the positive impacts of the administrative territorial reform for increasing service delivery capacities of institutions, ultimately building trust and creating social and economic dividends for the men and women who stand most to benefit from increased transparency, accountability and citizen orientation of services.

9. United Nations conventions provide frameworks for policy and implementation, coupled with recommendations from the universal periodic review process. The Roma and Egyptian communities, persons with disabilities and women victims of gender-based violence are the targeted vulnerable groups. This targeting follows participatory exclusion profiling and analysis from the previous programme period. Geographic targeting will not be pursued due to past experience when such targeting and division of labour between development partners resulted in a negative fragmentation of the policy environment. However, local government units with a concentration of Roma and Egyptian communities at risk of exclusion will be targeted, as will young women and men, especially for skills-building for their meaningful participation in the labour force.

10. The Delivering as One context of the previous programme provided for joint planning and division of labour between UNDP and partner United Nations agencies and created effectiveness and efficiency gains, notably in social and economic inclusion and gender equality results. Building on this, the Sustainable Development Goals present strong entry points for UNDP and United Nations partners to deliver results: The programme delivery strategy focusing on the agency of local government units enables UNDP to contribute towards Goal 11 on urban development. It also provides for multisectoral governance (Goal 16) and issue -based solutions to challenges of gender inequality (Goal 5), Roma exclusion (Goal 10) and environmental sustainability (Goal 13) at municipal levels. In this context, the capital, Tirana, home to 20 per cent of the country’s poor, has the nascent capacities and potential to generate such solutions. 30

11. Democratic governance and rule of law is the first priority, in line with outcome 1 of the country programme, by 2021, state and civil society organizations perform effectively and with accountability for consolidated democracy in line with international norms and standards . It derives from the cross-cutting objective of the NSDI for democracy, good governance and rule of law and the Government's adoption of the Sustainable Development Goal 16 pilot indicators during the previous programming period.

12. Legislative reforms of the judiciary, elections and public administration are necessary but not sufficient for ensuring that citizens trust core state institutions (e.g., rule of law, human rights institutions and electoral management bodies). UNDP will support the institutional capacities of core state institutions to enable citizens, especially women, to turn to them for voice, representation and redress (Sustainable Development Goal 16).

27 Ibid p.71.28 Ibid pp.35-36.29 Ibid p.36.30 World Bank: An Update on Poverty and Inequality in Albania, 2015.

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UNDP has a niche in governance derived from co-designing with the Government the roadmap for the administrative and territorial reform and managing pooled resources in support of governance reforms. UNDP will help to implement local governance reform priorities identified and agreed with the Government, development partners and the EU. These include performance monitoring systems for service delivery and one-stop shops at municipal levels; gender mainstreaming of municipal service delivery plans; and further improvements of administrative and public finance management capacities to prepare local authorities for European integration. Gender mainstreaming of major reform packages and policies will be ensured through support to the national gender machinery. Women as agents of change will be supported at parliamentary and municipal council levels. The 61 new municipalities are the institutional platforms for local integrity systems and anti-corruption actions with civil society. In partnership with the National Anticorruption Coordinator, UNDP will pilot and help replicate municipal integrity plans, which translate the National Strategy on Anticorruption into local action. UNDP will help the Government and its civil society partners monitor the progress and effectiveness of governance reforms, noting that this requires an independent and neutral stanc ethrough trusted metrics of monitoring. The indicators for Sustainable Development Goal 16 piloted and adopted by Albania provide such metrics. UNDP will also support civil society-led surveys of public perceptions of trust, as well as open government and open data applications.

13. Promoting social inclusion and the rights of vulnerable communities is the second priority, deriving from outcome 2, women, men, girls and boys, especially those from marginalized and vulnerable groups, are exercising their entitlements to equitable quality services and in line with human rights to ensure social inclusion and cohesion. This priority resonates with the NSDI priority for investing in people and social cohesion. It further reinforces the achievement of the political criteria for EU accession as it promotes human rights.

14. UNDP will deepen its support to the Ministry of Social Welfare and Youth to carry out its mandate to monitor and coordinate the adoption of social inclusion and gender equality targets by line ministries and local authorities. A statistical indicators and integrity group will be established to underpin the Ministry's role in monitoring, coordinating and directing sectoral policy towards narrowing inequalities between men and women, and between the broader population and recognizable disadvantaged groups, such as persons with disabilities and the Roma and Egyptian communities (Sustainable Development Goal 10). Having actively supported the articulation of the national policy and vision for social inclusion and gender equality in the previous programme period,31 UNDP will support the design and implementation of concrete social inclusion measures, especially targeting the Roma and Egyptian communities and persons with disabilities, by relevant line ministries and local authorities. Noting the complex nature of social exclusion and the multiple leve ls of response required to address it, local government units will be supported to develop procedures and funding mechanisms for partnerships with non-governmental organizations in the planning and delivery of social inclusion measures. Special support will be giver to local civil society, representing vulnerable communities. Innovative ways of social protection financing will be explored. The effectiveness and coverage of the cross -sectoral, coordinated mechanisms for community violence prevention and response to address the multiple needs, including for justice, of survivors of gender-based violence will be deepened and expanded, and pilots scaled up to the newly amalgamated local government units.

15. Ensuring that young women and men have opportunities and skills is the third priority, in line with outcome 3, economic growth priorities, policies and programmes of the Government of Albania are inclusive, sustainable and gender-responsive, with greater focus on competitiveness, decent jobs and rural development. This mirrors outcome 1 of the UNDP Strategic Plan and derives from a development pathway that supports realization of the national priorities for investment in people and a competitive economy. Progress in this area will contribute to Sustainable Development Goal 8.

16. UNDP will work with the Ministry of Social Welfare and Youth to help young people find viable and skills-building routes to employment, rather than relying on informal patronage networks for jobs in the public sector. UNDP will support further reforms for optimizing the fragmented network of public and private

31 ADR, pp.67-68.

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vocational training providers so that they can give young people the education and skills required for Albania’s European future. UNDP will support partnerships between the vocational education and training system and businesses through work-based learning in priority sectors such as tourism, agriculture and information technologies. UNDP will continue to help improve the effectiveness and transparency of existing employment promotion policies, e.g., cash benefits to enterprises, and monitor their results. Integrated approaches between the social sector and labour market will be adopted to support the inclusion of the vulnerable into the world of work. Labour market measures will be developed for hard-to-employ groups such as Roma and persons with disabilities. Addressing women's low rates of participation in the labour force will have high priority. UNDP will complement these labour market measures with programmes to encourage young men and women in entrepreneurial activities. Innovative solutions to complicated issues such as young women's care obligations and the potentially radicalizing exclusion and frustrations of young men will be explored and tested through pilots, depending on partnerships and resources.

17. Environment and climate change is the fourth priority, deriving from outcome 4, government and non-government actors adopt and implement innovative, gender-sensitive national and local actions for environmental sustainability, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and disaster risk reduction. This mirrors Strategic Plan outcome 1 and responds to the NSDI objective of sustainable growth and provides the framework for UNDP to support national realization of a broad range of Sustainable Development Goals.

18. UNDP will deliver results at two levels: at central level, for financing mechanisms; and at the local government unit level, for gradually consolidating the responsibility to act for the present protection and the future resilience of the environment. UNDP will support broader ownership of the climate agenda and work with the Ministries of Environment and of Energy and others and build inter-institutional partnerships. This will provide the governance basis for the establishment of innovative funding mechanisms that can incentivize and help to pay for improved energy efficiency and renewable solutions (Sustainable Development Goals13 and 7). It will also help Albania to access global climate financing. Synergies and partnerships with international and regional financial institutions will underpin such financing mechanisms and help to build market uptake for solutions. Building on its response to the 2015 floods, UNDP will work with the scientific community to map climatic risks and work with local communities, especially women and youth, to help local authorities identify and implement adaptation measures (Sustainable Development Goal 9). Such practices will feed into and reinforce the development of a gender action plan on adaptation and mitigation for adoption and further implementation by the Government (Sustainable Development Goal 5). UNDP will continue its partnership with the Ministry of Environment and promote innovative financing and co-management mechanisms for protection of natural resources, combined with internationally comparable performance measurements. UNDP will institutionalize Albania’s partnerships with homologue institutions of the riparian countries of the Drin River (South-South cooperation) and develop implementing procedures for management of this transboundary basin.

III. Programme and risk management19. The country programme will be nationally executed. The Government's coordinating agency will be the Department of Donor Coordination of the Prime Ministry. The integrated policy management groups architecture, led by the Government, provides the coordination mechanism for UNDP and other international partners contributing to results in key reform areas linked to EU sectoral programmes. UNDP will work with this Department to develop cross-sectoral programs and establish cooperation mechanisms for their implementation. Other national and subnational authorities and civil society organizations will be implementing partners, as defined in the results framework. Direct execution will be used in exceptional situations. UNDP will continue to provide implementation support services at the request of the Government and apply Executive Board-approved programme and development effectiveness charges to concerned projects.

20. The service delivery orientation of the programme is the basis for co-management with the Government and increasing national cost-sharing for achievement of results. Bilateral development partners and the EU are strategic partners for setting the joint policy agenda and knowledge generation. They are also partners for co-funding and pool funding of national reforms supported by UNDP. The Global Environment Facility will

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vocational training providers so that they can give young people the education and skills required for Albania’s European future. UNDP will support partnerships between the vocational education and training system and businesses through work-based learning in priority sectors such as tourism, agriculture and information technologies. UNDP will continue to help improve the effectiveness and transparency of existing employment promotion policies, e.g., cash benefits to enterprises, and monitor their results. Integrated approaches between the social sector and labour market will be adopted to support the inclusion of the vulnerable into the world of work. Labour market measures will be developed for hard-to-employ groups such as Roma and persons with disabilities. Addressing women's low rates of participation in the labour force will have high priority. UNDP will complement these labour market measures with programmes to encourage young men and women in entrepreneurial activities. Innovative solutions to complicated issues such as young women's care obligations and the potentially radicalizing exclusion and frustrations of young men will be explored and tested through pilots, depending on partnerships and resources.

17. Environment and climate change is the fourth priority, deriving from outcome 4, government and non-government actors adopt and implement innovative, gender-sensitive national and local actions for environmental sustainability, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and disaster risk reduction. This mirrors Strategic Plan outcome 1 and responds to the NSDI objective of sustainable growth and provides the framework for UNDP to support national realization of a broad range of Sustainable Development Goals.

18. UNDP will deliver results at two levels: at central level, for financing mechanisms; and at the local government unit level, for gradually consolidating the responsibility to act for the present protection and the future resilience of the environment. UNDP will support broader ownership of the climate agenda and work with the Ministries of Environment and of Energy and others and build inter-institutional partnerships. This will provide the governance basis for the establishment of innovative funding mechanisms that can incentivize and help to pay for improved energy efficiency and renewable solutions (Sustainable Development Goals13 and 7). It will also help Albania to access global climate financing. Synergies and partnerships with international and regional financial institutions will underpin such financing mechanisms and help to build market uptake for solutions. Building on its response to the 2015 floods, UNDP will work with the scientific community to map climatic risks and work with local communities, especially women and youth, to help local authorities identify and implement adaptation measures (Sustainable Development Goal 9). Such practices will feed into and reinforce the development of a gender action plan on adaptation and mitigation for adoption and further implementation by the Government (Sustainable Development Goal 5). UNDP will continue its partnership with the Ministry of Environment and promote innovative financing and co-management mechanisms for protection of natural resources, combined with internationally comparable performance measurements. UNDP will institutionalize Albania’s partnerships with homologue institutions of the riparian countries of the Drin River (South-South cooperation) and develop implementing procedures for management of this transboundary basin.

III. Programme and risk management19. The country programme will be nationally executed. The Government's coordinating agency will be the Department of Donor Coordination of the Prime Ministry. The integrated policy management groups architecture, led by the Government, provides the coordination mechanism for UNDP and other international partners contributing to results in key reform areas linked to EU sectoral programmes. UNDP will work with this Department to develop cross-sectoral programs and establish cooperation mechanisms for their implementation. Other national and subnational authorities and civil society organizations will be implementing partners, as defined in the results framework. Direct execution will be used in exceptional situations. UNDP will continue to provide implementation support services at the request of the Government and apply Executive Board-approved programme and development effectiveness charges to concerned projects.

20. The service delivery orientation of the programme is the basis for co-management with the Government and increasing national cost-sharing for achievement of results. Bilateral development partners and the EU are strategic partners for setting the joint policy agenda and knowledge generation. They are also partners for co-funding and pool funding of national reforms supported by UNDP. The Global Environment Facility will

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be a catalyst for building innovative funding mechanisms for both protection and climate change adaptation and mitigation. The joint resource mobilization strategy of the One United Nations Coherence Fund for the programme of cooperation will support UNDP results in joint programming with United Nations agency partners.

21. The country office will need to manage two main risks. The most important is the reform agenda. Partisan polarization risks blocking core reforms in the areas of governance and rule of law necessary for EU accession. To advocate momentum for key reforms, UNDP will actively build bipartisan dialogue based on independent evidence and monitoring with civil society, e.g., through open government and data partnerships. This will help UNDP to maintain a firmly non-partisan stance and focus on bringing tangible improvements to people’s lives. The second risk, linked to the first, is funding. A change of focus from the reform agenda for EU accession towards shorter-term partisan considerations will undermine the commitment of international partners. Further financial prudence will be maintained to prepare for potential reversals in funding commitments.

22. This country programme document outlines the UNDP contributions to national results and serves as the primary unit of accountability to the Executive Board for results alignment and resources assigned to the programme at country level. Accountabilities of managers at the country, regional and headquarter levels with respect to country programmes are prescribed in the organization’s programme and operations policies and procedures and the internal controls framework.

IV. Monitoring and evaluation

23. Outcome and output indicators have been selected to ensure that they can be measured easily and monitored on a regular basis. In some cases, UNDP will derive the data through commissioned surveys, e.g., the Open Government Partnership. The programme strategy focusing on service delivery and ensuring that performance monitoring tools are used at local levels creates possibilities for self-evaluation. It also keeps the focus firmly on the lives of the people served by UNDP. During the programme period, the Institute of National Statistics will transition fully to European methodologies, notably the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. When adopted, the latter will provide much needed metrics for measuring poverty, inequalities and social exclusion. During the programme period, the establishment of a statistical indicators and integrity group, with UNDP support, will provide the institutional basis for monitoring inequalities (Sustainable Development Goal 10).

24. The assessment of development results and evaluation of the United Nations Development Assistance Framework inform the scope and trajectory of the proposed country programme. Given the programme structure, future evaluations will include outcome and project evaluations especially where projects represent the contributions of multiple donors to broad reforms.

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(com

posi

te)

Bas

elin

e (2

015)

:

Tar

get:

4.14

/7

3.9

1.3

Ann

ual r

atin

g of

Wor

ld Ju

stic

e Pr

ojec

t (W

JP) R

ule

of L

aw In

dex

(com

posi

te)

Bas

elin

e (2

015)

:

Tar

get (

2021

):0.

52/1

0.60

1.4

Perc

eptio

ns o

f tru

st in

cor

e pu

blic

in

stitu

tions

B

asel

ine

(201

5):

Tr

ust i

n:G

over

nmen

t (34

%)

Parli

amen

t (22

%)

Judi

ciar

y (1

7%)

Targ

et:

Trus

t in:

G

over

nmen

t (45

%)

Parli

amen

t (45

%)

Judi

ciar

y (5

0%)

Cen

tral E

lect

oral

C

omm

issi

on (C

EC)

web

site

Free

dom

Hou

se

(ann

ually

)

WJP

Rul

e of

Law

In

dex,

2015

(ann

ually

)

Ope

n G

over

nmen

t Pa

rtner

ship

(OG

P) T

rust

in

Inst

itutio

ns S

urve

y (a

nnua

lly)

Out

put 1

.1 C

onst

itutio

nal,

parl

iam

enta

ry a

nd in

depe

nden

t bo

dies

are

rei

nfor

ced

to c

arry

out

cor

e fu

nctio

ns.

Indi

cato

r 1.1

.1

Exte

nt1 to

whi

ch h

uman

righ

ts in

stitu

tions

have

the

capa

city

to

supp

ort f

ulfil

men

t of n

atio

nal a

nd in

tern

atio

nal h

uman

righ

ts

oblig

atio

ns (1

-4)

Bas

elin

e:

Targ

et:

2

4

Sour

ce: U

ND

P (I

nteg

rate

d R

esul

ts a

nd R

esou

rces

Fra

mew

ork

2.3.

1 )

Indi

cato

r 1.1

.2Ex

tent

2 to w

hich

ele

ctor

al m

anag

emen

t bod

ies p

erfo

rm c

ore

func

tions

(1-4

)B

asel

ine:

Ta

rget

:2

4

So

urce

: CEC

/UN

DP(

Inte

grat

ed R

esul

ts a

nd R

esou

rces

Fr

amew

ork

2.1.

1 )

Indi

cato

r 1.1

.3

Num

ber o

f wom

en p

artic

ipat

ing

as c

andi

date

s in

loca

l and

na

tiona

l ele

ctio

ns

Bas

elin

e:

2,83

4 (2

013)

Ta

rget

3,2

00 (

2021

) So

urce

: CEC

Out

put 1

.2 N

atio

nal/l

ocal

inst

itutio

ns h

ave

impr

oved

ca

paci

ties/s

ervi

ces

to p

reve

nt c

orru

ptio

n an

d in

crea

se a

ccou

ntab

ility

and

tran

spar

ency

in se

rvic

e de

liver

yIn

dica

tor 1

.2.1

N

umbe

r of p

ropo

sals

ado

pted

to m

itiga

te se

ctor

-spe

cific

co

rrup

tion

risks

1.1

Inde

pend

ent i

nstit

utio

ns

(incl

udin

g ru

le o

f law

and

hu

man

righ

ts in

stitu

tions

) el

ecto

ral m

anag

emen

t bod

ies,

polit

ical

par

ties,

parli

amen

tary

co

mm

issi

ons/

cauc

uses

. D

evel

opm

ent p

artn

ers,

espe

cial

ly E

U, O

SCE,

Cou

ncil

of E

urop

e; U

N-W

omen

as k

ey

partn

er in

Del

iver

ing

as O

ne

outc

ome

grou

p.

Reg

ular

:$

5

85,0

00

Oth

er:

$12,

065,

000

Tota

l:$1

2,65

0,00

0

1 1. N

o ac

tion

has y

et b

een

take

n; 2

. Par

tially

ope

ratio

nal 3

. Ope

ratio

nal 4

. Ope

ratio

nal a

nd th

ere

is de

mon

stra

ble

evid

ence

that

this

is le

adin

g to

fulfi

llmen

t of n

atio

nally

and

inte

rnat

iona

lly ra

tifie

d H

R o

blig

atio

ns.

2 1- N

ot a

chie

ved;

2- P

artia

lly a

chie

ved;

3- M

ostly

ach

ieve

d; 4

- Ful

ly a

chie

ved

DP/DCP/ALB/2

8/14 16-11964

Ann

ex. R

esul

ts a

nd r

esou

rces

fram

ewor

k fo

r A

lban

ia (2

017-

2021

)N

atio

nal p

rior

ity: G

ood

gove

rnan

ce, d

emoc

racy

and

rule

of l

aw;

Sust

aina

ble

Dev

elop

men

t Goa

ls 5

, 10,

11,

16

UN

DA

F ou

tcom

e 1:

Sta

te a

nd c

ivil

soci

ety

orga

niza

tion

perf

orm

eff

ectiv

ely

and

with

acc

ount

abili

ty fo

r con

solid

ated

dem

ocra

cy in

line

with

inte

rnat

iona

l nor

ms a

nd st

anda

rds

Rel

ated

Str

ateg

ic P

lan

(201

4-20

17) O

utco

me:

2.

Citi

zen

expe

ctat

ions

for

voic

e, d

evel

opm

ent,

the

rule

of l

aw a

nd a

ccou

ntab

ility

are

met

by

stro

nger

syst

ems o

f dem

ocra

tic

gove

rnan

ce

UN

DA

F o

utco

me

indi

cato

rs,

base

lines

, and

targ

ets

Dat

a so

urce

, fre

quen

cy

of d

ata

colle

ctio

n, a

nd

resp

onsi

bilit

ies

Indi

cativ

e co

untr

y pr

ogra

mm

e ou

tput

s

Maj

or p

artn

ers,

part

ners

hips

,fr

amew

orks

Indi

cativ

e re

sour

ces,

by o

utco

me

1.1

% M

embe

rs o

f Par

liam

ent,

mun

icip

al c

ounc

ilor p

ositi

ons h

eld

by

wom

enB

asel

ine

(201

5):

Tar

get:

MPs

21%

30%

mun

icip

al c

ounc

ilors

35%

50%

1.2

Ann

ual r

atin

g of

dem

ocra

tic

chan

ge in

Alb

ania

(com

posi

te)

Bas

elin

e (2

015)

:

Tar

get:

4.14

/7

3.9

1.3

Ann

ual r

atin

g of

Wor

ld Ju

stic

e Pr

ojec

t (W

JP) R

ule

of L

aw In

dex

(com

posi

te)

Bas

elin

e (2

015)

:

Tar

get (

2021

):0.

52/1

0.60

1.4

Perc

eptio

ns o

f tru

st in

cor

e pu

blic

in

stitu

tions

B

asel

ine

(201

5):

Tr

ust i

n:G

over

nmen

t (34

%)

Parli

amen

t (22

%)

Judi

ciar

y (1

7%)

Targ

et:

Trus

t in:

G

over

nmen

t (45

%)

Parli

amen

t (45

%)

Judi

ciar

y (5

0%)

Cen

tral E

lect

oral

C

omm

issi

on (C

EC)

web

site

Free

dom

Hou

se

(ann

ually

)

WJP

Rul

e of

Law

In

dex,

2015

(ann

ually

)

Ope

n G

over

nmen

t Pa

rtner

ship

(OG

P) T

rust

in

Inst

itutio

ns S

urve

y (a

nnua

lly)

Out

put 1

.1 C

onst

itutio

nal,

parl

iam

enta

ry a

nd in

depe

nden

t bo

dies

are

rei

nfor

ced

to c

arry

out

cor

e fu

nctio

ns.

Indi

cato

r 1.1

.1

Exte

nt1 to

whi

ch h

uman

righ

ts in

stitu

tions

have

the

capa

city

to

supp

ort f

ulfil

men

t of n

atio

nal a

nd in

tern

atio

nal h

uman

righ

ts

oblig

atio

ns (1

-4)

Bas

elin

e:

Targ

et:

2

4

Sour

ce: U

ND

P (I

nteg

rate

d R

esul

ts a

nd R

esou

rces

Fra

mew

ork

2.3.

1 )

Indi

cato

r 1.1

.2Ex

tent

2 to w

hich

ele

ctor

al m

anag

emen

t bod

ies p

erfo

rm c

ore

func

tions

(1-4

)B

asel

ine:

Ta

rget

:2

4

So

urce

: CEC

/UN

DP(

Inte

grat

ed R

esul

ts a

nd R

esou

rces

Fr

amew

ork

2.1.

1 )

Indi

cato

r 1.1

.3

Num

ber o

f wom

en p

artic

ipat

ing

as c

andi

date

s in

loca

l and

na

tiona

l ele

ctio

ns

Bas

elin

e:

2,83

4 (2

013)

Ta

rget

3,2

00 (

2021

) So

urce

: CEC

Out

put 1

.2 N

atio

nal/l

ocal

inst

itutio

ns h

ave

impr

oved

ca

paci

ties/s

ervi

ces

to p

reve

nt c

orru

ptio

n an

d in

crea

se a

ccou

ntab

ility

and

tran

spar

ency

in se

rvic

e de

liver

yIn

dica

tor 1

.2.1

N

umbe

r of p

ropo

sals

ado

pted

to m

itiga

te se

ctor

-spe

cific

co

rrup

tion

risks

1.1

Inde

pend

ent i

nstit

utio

ns

(incl

udin

g ru

le o

f law

and

hu

man

righ

ts in

stitu

tions

) el

ecto

ral m

anag

emen

t bod

ies,

polit

ical

par

ties,

parli

amen

tary

co

mm

issi

ons/

cauc

uses

. D

evel

opm

ent p

artn

ers,

espe

cial

ly E

U, O

SCE,

Cou

ncil

of E

urop

e; U

N-W

omen

as k

ey

partn

er in

Del

iver

ing

as O

ne

outc

ome

grou

p.

Reg

ular

:$

5

85,0

00

Oth

er:

$12,

065,

000

Tota

l:$1

2,65

0,00

0

1 1. N

o ac

tion

has y

et b

een

take

n; 2

. Par

tially

ope

ratio

nal 3

. Ope

ratio

nal 4

. Ope

ratio

nal a

nd th

ere

is de

mon

stra

ble

evid

ence

that

this

is le

adin

g to

fulfi

llmen

t of n

atio

nally

and

inte

rnat

iona

lly ra

tifie

d H

R o

blig

atio

ns.

2 1- N

ot a

chie

ved;

2- P

artia

lly a

chie

ved;

3- M

ostly

ach

ieve

d; 4

- Ful

ly a

chie

ved

DP/DCP/ALB/2

16-11964 9/14

1.5

Leve

l of c

itize

n pe

rcep

tion

of

corr

uptio

n m

anife

stat

ions

in p

ublic

in

stitu

tions

Bas

elin

e (2

015)

: C

entra

l gov

ernm

ent (

34%

) Lo

cal g

over

nmen

ts (4

1%)

Targ

et:

Cen

tral g

over

nmen

t (20

%)

Loca

l gov

ernm

ents

(20%

)

OG

P N

atio

nal S

urve

y (a

nnua

lly)

Bas

elin

e:

2 T

arge

t: 10

So

urce

: Nat

iona

l Coo

rdin

ator

for A

nti-C

orru

ptio

n ,

Min

istry

of

Inno

vatio

n an

d Pu

blic

Adm

inis

tratio

n (M

IPA

)

Indi

cato

r 1.2

.2

Num

ber o

f mun

icip

aliti

es w

ith se

rvic

e de

liver

y pe

rfor

man

ce

mon

itorin

g sy

stem

in p

lace

.B

asel

ine:

2

(201

6)

T

arge

t: 61

So

urce

: Min

istry

of L

ocal

Issu

es (M

oLI)

Indi

cato

r 1.2

.3

Num

ber o

f mun

icip

aliti

es w

ith te

rrito

rially

func

tiona

l one

-sto

p sh

op se

rvic

eB

asel

ine:

1

Tar

get:

40

(UN

DP)

;

2

1 (o

ther

dev

elop

men

t par

tner

s)

Indi

cato

r 1.2

.4

Num

ber o

f mun

icip

aliti

es w

ith o

pera

ting

mun

icip

al in

tegr

ity

plan

sB

asel

ine:

0 T

arge

t: 6

Out

put 1

.3 S

tate

inst

itutio

ns h

ave

capa

citie

s and

m

echa

nism

s to

mai

nstr

eam

gen

der

in p

olic

ymak

ing

and

plan

ning

pro

cess

esIn

dica

tor 1

.3.1

N

umbe

r of l

egal

fra

mew

ork

amen

dmen

ts in

line

with

tre

aty

body

reco

mm

enda

tions

B

asel

ine:

Ta

rget

:2

5

Indi

cato

r 1.3

.2

Num

ber o

f gen

der m

ains

tream

ed m

unic

ipal

serv

ice

deliv

ery

plan

s B

asel

ine:

T

arge

t:2

61

Sour

ce: M

oLI

Indi

cato

r 1.3

.3 –

Num

ber o

f nat

iona

l pol

icie

s rev

iew

ed b

y th

e N

atio

nal C

ounc

il on

Gen

der E

qual

ity

Bas

elin

e

Tar

get

0 (2

015)

7

Indi

cato

r 1.3

.4

Num

ber o

f wom

en c

ounc

ilors

supp

orte

d in

lead

ersh

ip a

nd

loca

l pol

icym

akin

g B

asel

ine

T

arge

t 20

(201

6)

22

0 O

utpu

t 1.4

Civ

il so

ciet

y gr

oups

, ind

ivid

uals

and

you

ng

peop

le p

artic

ipat

e in

dec

isio

n-m

akin

g pr

oces

ses a

nd m

ore

activ

ely

mon

itor

natio

nal a

nd lo

cal i

nstit

utio

ns

1.2

Min

istry

of I

nnov

atio

n an

d Pu

blic

Adm

inis

tratio

n;

Min

istry

of L

ocal

Issu

es; l

ocal

go

vern

men

t uni

ts (L

GU

s);

Nat

iona

l Coo

rdin

ator

for A

nti-

Cor

rupt

ion;

D

evel

opm

ent p

artn

ers

(Gov

ernm

ents

of I

taly

, Sw

eden

, Sw

itzer

land

and

Uni

ted

Stat

es

and/

or th

eir i

nter

natio

nal

deve

lopm

ent c

oope

ratio

n ag

enci

es; a

nd C

ounc

il of

Eu

rope

, CSO

s, O

GP

partn

ers.

1.3

Nat

iona

l gen

der m

achi

nery

, M

inis

try o

f Soc

ial W

elfa

re a

nd

Yout

h (M

SWY

); w

omen

's N

GO

s, pa

rliam

enta

ry

com

mis

sion

s, N

atio

nal C

ounc

il on

Gen

der E

qual

ity; U

N-

Wom

en; G

over

nmen

t of

Swed

en

1.4

Loca

l Gov

ernm

ent U

nits

, C

SOs,

EU

DP/DCP/ALB/2

10/14 16-11964

Indi

cato

r 1.4

.1.

Num

ber o

f CSO

s usi

ng o

pen

plat

form

s and

net

wor

ks

Bas

elin

e

Targ

et

0 (2

015)

35 (1

5 w

omen

’s o

rgan

izat

ions

; 5 y

outh

; 10

oth

er)

Sour

ce: P

arlia

men

t. U

ND

P (I

nteg

rate

d R

esul

ts a

nd R

esou

rces

Fr

amew

ork

2.4.

2)

Indi

cato

r 1.4

.2

Num

ber o

f mun

icip

aliti

es h

avin

g sy

stem

atic

pub

lic

cons

ulta

tion

mec

hani

sms i

n pl

ace

Bas

elin

e:

Targ

et:

2

61

Sour

ce: M

oLI

Nat

iona

l pri

ority

: Inv

estin

g in

peo

ple

and

soci

al c

ohes

ion;

goo

d go

vern

ance

, dem

ocra

cy a

nd ru

le o

f law

; Sus

tain

able

Dev

elop

men

t Goa

ls 1

, 5, 1

0, 1

6

UN

DA

F ou

tcom

e 2:

All

wom

en, m

en, g

irls a

nd b

oys,

espe

cial

ly th

ose

from

mar

gina

lized

and

vul

nera

ble

grou

ps, a

re e

xerc

isin

g th

eir e

ntitl

emen

ts to

equ

itabl

e qu

ality

serv

ices

, in

line

with

hum

an ri

ghts

;and

mor

e ef

fect

ive

and

effic

ient

inve

stm

ents

in h

uman

and

fina

ncia

l res

ourc

es a

re b

eing

mad

e at

cen

tral a

nd lo

cal l

evel

s to

ensu

re so

cial

incl

usio

n an

d co

hesi

on.

Rel

ated

Str

ateg

ic P

lan

(201

4-20

17) O

utco

me

: 1.

Gro

wth

and

dev

elop

men

t are

incl

usiv

e an

d su

stai

nabl

e in

corp

orat

ing

prod

uctiv

e ca

paci

ties t

hat c

reat

e em

ploy

men

t and

live

lihoo

ds

for

the

poor

and

exc

lude

d

2.1

Num

ber o

f sec

tor-

spec

ific

polic

ies

with

exp

licit

soci

al in

clus

ion

targ

ets

Bas

elin

e

Targ

et:

4 (2

015)

24

2.2

Leve

l of i

mpl

emen

tatio

n of

N

atio

nal A

ctio

n Pl

an o

n R

oma

and

Egyp

tian

Inte

grat

ion

Bas

elin

e: ra

ted

1 of

an

estim

ated

ratin

g of

1 to

5Ta

rget

: Ra

ted

at le

ast 3

2.3

% w

omen

(age

s 18-

55 y

ears

) who

ex

perie

nce

dom

estic

vio

lenc

e B

asel

ine:

Tar

get:

23.7

% (2

013)

2

1% (2

018)

MSW

Y A

nnua

l rep

ort o

n so

cial

incl

usio

n

MSW

Y/O

ffic

ial G

azet

te

Age

ncy

for C

ivil

Soci

ety

Supp

ort

Out

put 2

.1 S

ocia

l inc

lusi

on m

easu

res a

t nat

iona

l/loc

al

leve

ls ar

e ad

opte

d w

ith e

ffec

tive

clea

r ta

rget

s tha

t ref

lect

eq

uity

Indi

cato

r 2.1

.1

Func

tioni

ng o

f Sta

tistic

al In

dica

tors

and

Inte

grity

Gro

up

Bas

elin

e:

Targ

et:

No

Yes

Sour

ce: M

SWY

Indi

cato

r 2.1

.2

Num

ber o

f new

regu

latio

ns a

nd in

stru

ctio

ns o

n so

cial

in

clus

ion

mea

sure

s tha

t inv

olve

two

or m

ore

targ

et m

inis

tries

(c

ross

-sec

tora

l, is

sue-

base

d ap

proa

ch)

Bas

elin

e:

Targ

et:

1

8So

urce

: MSW

Y

Indi

cato

r 2.1

.3

Num

ber o

f LG

Us w

ith so

cial

incl

usio

n pr

ogra

mm

es a

nd

budg

ets f

or th

eir i

mpl

emen

tatio

nB

asel

ine:

Ta

rget

:0

(201

5)

15

Sour

ce: M

SWY

MSW

Y, M

inis

try o

f Urb

an

Dev

elop

men

t; St

ate

Soci

al

Serv

ice,

LG

Us;

CSO

s; A

genc

y fo

r Sup

port

of C

ivil

Soci

ety,

EU

and

Sou

th-S

outh

co

oper

atio

n pa

rtner

s

EU, G

over

nmen

ts o

f Ita

ly,

Swed

en a

nd S

witz

erla

nd a

nd

thei

r dev

elop

men

t coo

pera

tion

agen

cies

Del

iver

ing

as O

ne o

utco

me

grou

p le

ad U

NIC

EF w

ith o

ther

U

nite

d N

atio

ns p

artn

ers

Reg

ular

:$

5

85,0

00

Oth

er:

$10,

765,

000

Tota

l:$1

1,35

0,00

0

DP/DCP/ALB/2

16-11964 11/14

Indi

cato

r 2.1

.4

Num

ber o

f leg

al a

men

dmen

ts d

rafte

d to

alig

n w

ith C

onve

ntio

n on

the

Rig

hts o

f Per

sons

with

Dis

abili

ties a

nd

inte

rnat

iona

l/nat

iona

l sta

ndar

ds o

n pe

rson

s with

dis

abili

ties

Bas

elin

e:

Targ

et:

1

6So

urce

: MSW

Y

Indi

cato

r 2.1

.5

Num

ber o

f new

com

mun

ity u

pgra

ding

pro

ject

s in

Rom

a ne

ighb

orho

ods i

mpl

emen

ted.

Bas

elin

e

Tar

get

10 (2

015)

22

(202

0)

Out

put 2

.2 F

ram

ewor

ks a

nd d

ialo

gue

proc

esse

s in

plac

e fo

r ef

fect

ive

civi

l soc

iety

eng

agem

ent i

n de

velo

pmen

t.In

dica

tor 2

.2.1

N

umbe

r of C

SOs w

ith im

prov

ed c

apac

ities

for b

ette

r ser

vice

de

liver

y B

asel

ine

0 (2

016)

Ta

rget

60

(15

Rom

a/Eg

yptia

n; 1

5 w

omen

; 8 y

outh

) So

urce

UN

DP

Proj

ect R

epor

ts

Indi

cato

r 2.2

.2 N

umbe

r of L

GU

s ado

ptin

g fu

ndin

g pr

oced

ures

an

d m

echa

nism

s to

CSO

s for

serv

ice

prov

isio

nB

asel

ine:

Ta

rget

: 0(

2016

)

10So

urce

: Age

ncy

for C

ivil

Soci

ety

Supp

ort

Out

put 2

.3 C

apac

ity o

f ins

titut

ions

and

serv

ice

prov

ider

s st

reng

then

ed to

impl

emen

t leg

isla

tion

and

norm

ativ

e st

anda

rds o

n el

imin

atio

n of

vio

lenc

e ag

ains

t wom

en a

nd

othe

r fo

rms o

f disc

rim

inat

ion.

Indi

cato

r 2.3

.1

Num

ber o

f mun

icip

aliti

es w

ith s

treng

then

ed se

rvic

es to

pr

even

t and

add

ress

sexu

al a

nd g

ende

r-ba

sed

viol

ence

and

fu

nctio

nal c

omm

unity

coo

rdin

ated

resp

onse

B

asel

ine:

Ta

rget

:27

61

So

urce

: MSW

Y

Indi

cato

r 2.3

.2

Num

ber o

f cas

es o

f gen

der-

base

d vi

olen

ce a

ddre

ssed

thro

ugh

coor

dina

ted

resp

onse

B

asel

ine:

T

arge

t:37

0 (N

ovem

ber 2

015)

1

20 (a

nnua

lly)

Sour

ce: M

SWY

DP/DCP/ALB/2

12/14 16-11964

Nat

iona

l pri

ority

: Ens

urin

g gr

owth

thro

ugh

incr

ease

d co

mpe

titiv

enes

s and

inno

vatio

n; in

vest

ing

in p

eopl

e an

d so

cial

coh

esio

n; S

usta

inab

le D

evel

opm

ent G

oals

1, 4

, 5, 8

, 10,

11

Rel

ated

Str

ateg

ic P

lan

(201

4-20

17) O

utco

me

: 1. G

row

th a

nd d

evel

opm

ent a

re in

clus

ive

and

sust

aina

ble

inco

rpor

atin

g pr

oduc

tive

capa

citie

s tha

t cre

ate

empl

oym

ent a

nd li

velih

oods

fo

r th

e po

or a

nd e

xclu

ded

UN

DA

F ou

tcom

e 3:

Eco

nom

ic g

row

th p

riorit

ies,

polic

ies a

nd p

rogr

amm

es o

f the

Gov

ernm

ent o

f Alb

ania

are

incl

usiv

e, su

stai

nabl

e an

d ge

nder

-res

pons

ive,

with

gre

ater

focu

s on

com

petit

iven

ess,

dece

nt jo

bs a

nd ru

ral d

evel

opm

ent.

3.1

Num

ber o

f new

bus

ines

ses

esta

blis

hed

by m

en a

nd w

omen

Bas

elin

e (2

014)

: T

arge

t (an

nual

ly):

Tota

l16

,731

+1

0%Fe

mal

e1,

947

+

10%

Mal

e14

,784

+1

0%

3.2

Une

mpl

oym

ent r

ate

(men

and

w

omen

(age

15+

yea

rs) w

ho a

re:

with

out w

ork;

ava

ilabl

e fo

r wor

k;

seek

ing

wor

k)B

asel

ine

(201

4):

Tar

get:

Tota

l17

.6%

1

5% (b

y 20

20)

Fem

ale

15.8

%

15%

Mal

e18

.9%

1

5%

Nat

iona

l Reg

istra

tion

Cen

tre

(ann

ually

)

INST

AT L

abou

r For

ce

Surv

eys

Out

put 3

.1 A

n op

timiz

ed sk

ills d

evel

opm

ent s

yste

m

cont

ribu

tes t

o an

ade

quat

ely

skill

ed la

bour

forc

e th

at

mee

ts p

riva

te se

ctor

nee

ds

Indi

cato

r 3.1

.1

Qua

lity

assu

ranc

e an

d ac

cred

itatio

n sy

stem

s in

plac

e fo

r pu

blic

and

priv

ate

voca

tiona

l edu

catio

n tra

inin

g pr

ovid

ers

Bas

elin

e:

Targ

et:

No

Yes

Sour

ce: M

SWY

Indi

cato

r 3.1

.2

Num

ber o

f pub

lic-p

rivat

e pa

rtner

ship

s for

med

for w

ork-

base

d le

arni

ng

Bas

elin

e:

Targ

et:

0

2

Sour

ce: U

ND

P (I

nteg

rate

d R

esul

ts a

nd R

esou

rces

Fr

amew

ork

7.2.

1)

Out

put 3

.2 S

tate

inst

itutio

ns a

re b

ette

r ab

le to

dev

elop

, im

plem

ent a

nd m

onito

r em

ploy

men

t pol

icie

s tha

t see

k th

e la

bour

mar

ket i

nteg

ratio

n of

vul

nera

ble

grou

ps

Indi

cato

r 3.2

.1

Exte

nt to

whi

ch p

olic

ies,

syst

ems a

nd/o

r ins

titut

iona

l m

easu

res a

re in

pla

ce a

t the

nat

iona

l and

subn

atio

nal l

evel

s to

gen

erat

e an

d st

reng

then

em

ploy

men

t and

live

lihoo

ds

Bas

elin

e:

Targ

et:

2

3So

urce

: MSW

Y/N

ES

Indi

cato

r 3.2

.2 N

umbe

r of b

enef

icia

ries o

f act

ive

labo

ur

mar

ket m

easu

res

B

asel

ine

(201

5):

T

arge

t (20

20):

Tota

l: 5,

817

6,

500

(Wom

en 3

,799

/

4,20

0)

(You

th 3

,118

3,

500

(Rom

a 16

2

400

Pe

rson

s with

dis

abili

ties 3

0 1

00

Sour

ce: M

SWY

/NES

Out

put 3

.3 P

olic

ies t

hat p

rom

ote

yout

h en

trep

rene

ursh

ip a

nd in

nova

tion

at th

e ce

ntra

l/loc

al

leve

l are

ope

ratio

naliz

ed

MSW

Y, M

inis

try o

f Eco

nom

ic

Dev

elop

men

t, Tr

ade,

Tou

rism

an

d En

trepr

eneu

rshi

p; M

inis

try

of E

duca

tion

and

Spor

ts;

Nat

iona

l Em

ploy

men

t Ser

vice

(N

ES);

Nat

iona

l Age

ncy

for

Voca

tiona

l Edu

catio

n; A

lban

ian

Inve

stm

ent D

evel

opm

ent

Age

ncy;

LG

Us;

EU, d

evel

opm

ent p

artn

ers

incl

udin

g G

over

nmen

ts o

f A

ustri

a, a

nd S

witz

erla

nd

Del

iver

ing

as O

ne o

utco

me

grou

p w

ith IL

O.

Reg

ular

:$

5

85,0

00

Oth

er:

$ 9

,815

,000

Tota

l:$1

0,40

0,00

0

DP/DCP/ALB/2

16-11964 13/14

Indi

cato

r 3.3

.1

Num

ber o

f you

ng w

omen

and

men

ben

efic

iarie

s of

entre

pren

eurs

hip

supp

ort s

chem

es

Bas

elin

e:

Targ

et:

0

150

(Tot

al)

75

wom

en

3

per

sons

with

dis

abili

ties/

5 R

oma/

Egyp

tian

Sour

ce: N

ES, p

rogr

amm

e re

ports

Indi

cato

r 3.3

.2

Num

ber o

f add

ition

al p

ilot a

nd d

emon

stra

tion

proj

ects

in

itiat

ed o

r sca

led

up b

y na

tiona

l par

tner

s B

asel

ine:

Ta

rget

:0

6

Sour

ce: p

rogr

amm

e re

ports

Nat

iona

l pri

ority

: Env

ironm

enta

l pre

serv

atio

n, th

roug

h th

e pr

omot

ion

of s

usta

inab

le p

rodu

ctio

n an

d co

nsum

ptio

n, th

e pr

even

tion

of e

nviro

nmen

tal d

egra

datio

n, th

e in

tegr

atio

n of

en

viro

nmen

tal i

ssue

s in

all s

ecto

ral s

trate

gies

; Sus

tain

able

Dev

elop

men

t Goa

ls 6

, 7, 8

, 9, 1

1, 1

2, 1

3, 1

4, 1

5 U

ND

AF

outc

ome

4: G

over

nmen

t and

non

-gov

ernm

ent a

ctor

s ado

pt a

nd im

plem

ent i

nnov

ativ

e, g

ende

r-se

nsiti

ve n

atio

nal a

nd lo

cal a

ctio

ns fo

r env

ironm

enta

l sus

tain

abili

ty, c

limat

e ch

ange

miti

gatio

n an

d ad

apta

tion,

and

dis

aste

r ris

k re

duct

ion

Rel

ated

Str

ateg

ic P

lan

(201

4-20

17) O

utco

me

: 1. G

row

th a

nd d

evel

opm

ent a

re in

clus

ive

and

sust

aina

ble

inco

rpor

atin

g pr

oduc

tive

capa

citie

s tha

t cre

ate

empl

oym

ent a

nd li

velih

oods

fo

r th

e po

or a

nd e

xclu

ded

4.1

Gre

enho

use

gas (

GH

G) e

mis

sion

s (C

O2

eq k

T)B

asel

ine

(Fue

l com

bust

ion,

200

9): 5

,116

Targ

et (2

020)

: 8.3

% d

ecre

ase

from

the

base

line

scen

ario

4.2

Num

ber o

f hec

tare

s of l

and

man

aged

sust

aina

bly

as p

rote

cted

are

as u

nder

a c

onse

rvat

ion,

sust

aina

ble

use

or a

cces

s- a

nd b

enef

its-s

harin

g re

gim

eB

asel

ine

(201

5):

Targ

et (2

021)

:9,

424

hect

ares

73,2

19 h

ecta

res

Bie

nnia

l upd

ate

repo

rts o

f GH

G

inve

ntor

y to

the

UN

FCC

C;

Nat

iona

l C

omm

unic

atio

n on

C

limat

e C

hang

e;

Euro

pean

Ene

rgy

Age

ncy

(ann

ually

)

Out

put 4

.1 E

xten

t to

whi

ch c

limat

e fin

ance

is

bein

g ac

cess

ed (b

y go

vern

men

t and

non

-go

vern

men

t ins

titut

ions

)

Indi

cato

r 4.1

.1Pr

ogre

ss in

est

ablis

hing

Ene

rgy

Effic

ienc

y Fu

nd in

lin

e w

requ

irem

ents

for G

reen

Clim

ate

Fund

ac

cred

itatio

n3 B

asel

ine:

Ta

rget

:1

4So

urce

: MoE

/MEI

Indi

cato

r 4.1

.2 G

ende

r act

ion

plan

for c

limat

e ch

ange

ad

apta

tion

and

miti

gatio

n pr

epar

ed;

Bas

elin

e:

Targ

et:

No

Yes

Sour

ce: M

oE/U

ND

P

Indi

cato

r 4.1

.3 N

umbe

r of p

riorit

y ac

tions

from

the

clim

ate

chan

ge g

ende

r act

ion

plan

impl

emen

ted

Bas

elin

e:

Targ

et:

0

TBC

Min

istri

es o

f: En

viro

nmen

t (M

oE);

Ene

rgy

and

Indu

stry

(M

EI);

Agr

icul

ture

, Rur

al

Dev

elop

men

t and

Wat

er

Adm

inis

tratio

n (M

AR

DW

A);

Urb

an D

evel

opm

ent;

Nat

iona

l A

genc

y on

Pro

tect

ed A

reas

; En

viro

nmen

tal I

nspe

ctor

ate;

Nat

iona

l Env

ironm

enta

l Pr

otec

tion

Age

ncy;

Nat

iona

l A

genc

y on

Ter

ritor

ial P

lann

ing;

LG

Us;

Dev

elop

men

t par

tner

s:EU

, SID

A, G

IZ, U

SAID

, Eu

rope

an B

ank

for

Rec

onst

ruct

ion

and

Dev

elop

men

t and

Wor

ld B

ank.

C

SOs,

acad

emia

Del

iver

ing

as O

ne o

utco

me

grou

p U

nite

d N

atio

ns p

artn

ers.

Reg

ular

:$

505,

000

Oth

er:

$ 8,

605,

000

Tota

l:$9

,110

,000

3 1=n

one

in p

lace

; 2=p

repa

ratio

n of

the

Ener

gy E

ffici

ency

Fun

d in

line

with

Glo

bal C

onse

rvat

ion

Fund

(GC

F) re

quire

men

ts ;

3=e

ndor

sem

ent o

f the

Ene

rgy

Effic

ienc

y Fu

nd ;

4=su

bmis

sion

to G

CF

DP/DCP/ALB/2

14/14 16-11964

Sour

ce: M

oE/U

ND

P

Out

put 4

.2 L

ocal

aut

hori

ties a

re a

ble

to

impl

emen

t ene

rgy

effic

ienc

y m

easu

res a

s wel

l as

mor

e re

silie

nt to

exp

ecte

d cl

imat

e ch

ange

im

pact

sIn

dica

tor 4

.2.1

Num

ber o

f mun

icip

aliti

es in

trodu

cing

im

prov

ed e

nerg

y ef

ficie

ncy

solu

tions

B

asel

ine:

Ta

rget

:5

6

1So

urce

: Nat

iona

l Ene

rgy

Effic

ienc

y A

ctio

n Pl

an

repo

rts

Indi

cato

r 4.2

.2 N

umbe

r of c

limat

e ch

ange

ada

ptat

ion

mea

sure

s ide

ntifi

ed a

nd im

plem

ente

d in

Vjo

sa a

rea

Bas

elin

e

T

arge

t0

2

Out

put 4

.3 C

entr

al a

nd lo

cal i

nstit

utio

ns a

nd

com

mun

ities

are

mor

e aw

are

and

bette

r pr

epar

ed

to e

nsur

e th

e pr

otec

tion

of n

atur

al r

esou

rces

Indi

cato

r 4.3

.1 P

erfo

rman

ce o

f pro

tect

ed a

reas

pa

rtici

pato

ry m

anag

emen

t B

asel

ine:

M

anag

emen

t Eff

ectiv

enes

s Tra

ckin

g To

ol-(

MET

T)sc

ore

less

than

30%

Targ

et:

50%

Sour

ce:

MoE

Indi

cato

r 4.3

.2

Deg

ree4

to w

hich

the

natio

nal e

nviro

nmen

tal

info

rmat

ion

porta

l has

bee

n ha

rmon

ized

and

en

hanc

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