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Decentralisation in Albania: Achievements, Challenges, and Perspectives
Proceedings of International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences - 2021
Merita Toska, Aida Ciro, Ogerta Gjiknuri
Stephen Jackowicz, Ismail Sahin
978-1-952092-18-3
297-312
Decentralisation of local governance is a relatively new process in Albania, progressing at a different pace in its political, administrative, and fiscal/financial dimensions. The year 2015 marks a turning point for decentralisation in Albania. The Government of Albania implemented several changes aiming at deepening decentralisation in Albania, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of local public service provision in all 61 municipalities in the country. Since then, municipalities have become responsible for a series of services with a broad impact on citizens' quality of life. In the process, GoA introduced a transparent and predictable framework for the unconditional transfer. While the size of total available financial resources spent by municipalities has widened from 1.8% in 2015 to 3.1% of nominal GDP in 2019, municipalities in Albania lack financial autonomy or are highly dependent on intergovernmental transfers (Toska & Bejko, 2018; CoPLAN, 2020; Toska & Shutina, 2020). This study aims at providing a critical view on decentralisation reform in Albania, outlining the achievements, challenges, and perspectives following the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings suggest that the decentralising reforms and the decentralisation model implemented failed to produce the intended results, especially in municipalities' fiscal/financial autonomy.
Toska, M., Ciro, A., & Gjiknuri, O. (2021). Decentralisation in Albania: Achievements, challenges, and perspectives. In S. Jackowicz & I. Sahin (Eds.), Proceedings of IHSES 2021-- International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences (pp. 297-312), New York, USA. ISTES Organization.
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