Connor Friesen
Partners Albania as local partner in implementation of World Bank-Austria Urban Partnership Program, will start working soon with the selected municipality in the program, to implement this methodology which besides preventing and curing corruption, aims to strengthen institutional integrity, efficiency, transparency and accountability of the Local Government units, thus improving the public service delivery and insuring a sustainable local development.
From April 23 -May 2, 2012 Partners Albania Directors of Programs Arjola Agolli and Klotilda Kosta participated in The Program for Anticorruption Practitioners (PAP) held in Zadar, Croatia together with peers from Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina and Serbia where the same program is being implemented. Mr. Shpëtim Nishani, Deputy Mayor of Kucova municipality where PA will implement the initiative also participated in the PAP.
During the Program for Anticorruption Practitioners, the participants drafted the work plan and strategies to follow as part of the intervention in the selected local government units in respective countries.
The anticorruption approach was pioneered successfully by Ronald MacLean Abaroa as Mayor of La Paz on the basis of Professor Robert Klitgaard's analytical frameworks, who both atended this PAP program sharing their experiences. Following the work Partners Albania is conducting in local level to strengthen capacites and strategies to increase transparency and institutional accountability, the intervention will be implemented in two other local government units, in framework of a project supported by the British Embassy in Tirana.
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