Albania: Sustainable Rural Development
01.02.2023
- 31.12.2026
Large potential for additional value creation exists in the agriculture sector and related activities in Albania. The project will develop innovative, economically viable and inclusive business models for market actors to leverage investment and ultimately increase income and employment for the population in rural areas, especially for women, young people and returnees.
Swiss contribution to KfW Regional Challenge Fund for the Western Balkans
15.11.2022
- 31.12.2027
Switzerland is investing in vocational education and training as well as in labour-market insertion of unemployed youth through all of its bilateral cooperation programs in the Western Balkans. This contribution will allow Switzerland to join forces with Germany in efficiently raising the quality and labor-market orientation of VET offers across the region, while at the same time fostering sustainable partnerships between VET providers and companies for work-based learning.
RisiAlbania, Making Labour Market Work for Youth
01.11.2021
- 31.12.2029
The last phase of RisiAlbania will continue to consolidate a functional labour market system that performs sustainably. The project will support businesses to grow through increased access to markets, competitiveness and resilience, leading to the creation of more and better jobs for young women and men. It will scale up its support for improving career intermediation, guidance as well as non-formal skills provision for youth to get access to jobs.
Leave No One Behind Project
01.08.2021
- 31.07.2025
Albania is building up its social protection system, with the vision of providing decentralized services. The importance of an effective social protection system has increased by the ongoing pandemic. The project covers part of the social protection system. Its 2nd phase scales up the reform roll-out. This Albania-Switzerland-UN’ effort collaborates with 50% of municipalities and strengthens their capacities to support 160’000 vulnerable people.
Shkollat për Shëndetin (SpS) - Schools for health
01.10.2019
- 28.02.2025
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for the highest mortality in the country. The program aims to reduce the exposure to the major risk factors for NCDs through improvement of lifestyle practices in schoolchildren and communities. Municipalities will be supported to develop sustainable models for health promotion and healthy environments at school. Cooperation between Ministries of Health and Education will be strengthened to establish framework conditions conducive to health.
LëvizAlbania
01.07.2019
- 30.09.2023
Albania is at a critical juncture in its democratisation process and low level of civic engagement in the society does not aid. Challenging the status quo, LëvizAlbania empowers actors in the civic space (citizens, interest groups, CSOs, media etc.) to be drivers of change and pressure the government to take action benefiting the Albanian citizens. It complements SDCs extensive past and present work of institutional transformations of local level government.
Skills for Jobs
01.05.2019
- 30.06.2023
Lack of market-relevant skills is still an obstacle to Albania’s economic development and to reduce (youth) unemployment. The project is supporting the government to address this by reforming the vocational education and training (VET) system. Private sector will continue to play a bigger role in VET definition and provision. Already more than half of all VET students and 10% of all (short term) trainees will have access to improved and labour-market oriented skills development enhancing their prospects for a decent job and increased income.
Health for All Programme (HAP)
01.04.2019
- 31.03.2023
The Government of Albania is undertaking a reform to increase the quality and efficiency of public health services to respond to the increasing burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The project will support the elaboration of a primary health care strategy, health workforce management and quality improvement measures of service delivery for a better management of NCDs at primary health care. The aim is a higher satisfaction of users and a better health status of people covered.
Regional Development Programme in Northern Albania
01.04.2019
- 30.06.2023
The Government of Albania is pursuing the Regional Development (RD) reform in order to reduce regional disparities, provide better socio-economic conditions for citizens and prepare the country for the EU accession agenda. Within this, the project will support the legal and institutional framework for RD .and strengthening local, regional and national capacities for strateqic investrnents in the regions.
Soluzioni abitative per gli sfollati
01.03.2019
- 30.06.2024
A seguito della guerra negli anni 1990, in Bosnia e Erzegovina, Croazia, Montenegro e Serbia, più di tre milioni di persone sono state costrette a lasciare le proprie case e a rifugiarsi altrove, dentro o oltre i confini nazionali. A 23 anni dagli Accordi di Dayton, nei Balcani occidentali c’è ancora circa mezzo milione di persone vulnerabili sfollate a causa della guerra nell’ex Jugoslavia. Obiettivo del Regional Housing Programme (RHP) è fornire soluzioni abitative stabili ai profughi e agli sfollati interni che ne hanno bisogno.
| Paese/Regione | Tema | Periodo | Budget |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Balcani occidentali |
Migrazione
Trasferimenti forzati (rifugiati, sfollati interni, tratta di esseri umani)
|
01.03.2019 - 30.06.2024 |
CHF 1’555’000 |
Albania: PACEP (Support to Parliament and Civic Education Project)
01.01.2018
- 31.03.2024
The Albanian Parliament will be supported to enhance the performance and professionalism of its administration and improve its representative, oversight and legislative functions. Educated citizens and engaged civil society contribute toward more accountability in decision making processes and benefit from a well-functioning parliament.
Albania: Bashki te Forta (Strong Municipalities)
01.06.2017
- 31.12.2023
Municipal administrations in all 61 municipalities in Albania will be supported to effectively manage service delivery based on the citizens’ needs. Municipal councils will be enabled to better represent citizens’ interests and ensure that public resources are well managed. Setting up a reliable and up-to-date local statistical system will allow an informed decision making. Through these improvements, citizens will benefit from better services such as waste and pre-school education and will actively be involved in local issues.
