STARII Progress Report January-April 2019 Consolidation of Territorial and Administrative Reform (STAR 2) Contents Figures ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 Acronyms .................................................................................................................................................... 4 Project factsheet ......................................................................................................................................... 6 Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ....................................................................................... .......... 888 The Report................................................................................................................................................... 8 The Progress ................................................................................................................................................ 8 General progress ......................................................................................................................................... 8 Specific progress ......................................................................................................................................... 8 Project Visibility ........................................................................................................................................ 11 Project Sustainability ................................................................................................................................ 12 Next Steps ................................................................................................................................................ 13 1 --- Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ........................................................................................... .............. 141414 1.1 Context ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ................................................................................................ ..................... 141414 1.2 Project metrics ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ...................................................................................... ......... 151515 Gender equality and non-discrimination .................................................................................................. 15 2 --- Implementation Progress ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ................................. 181818 2.1 Progress by component, output and activity ................................................................................................................................................................................... ..................................... 181818 Graphs and statistics OSSIS ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ..................................... 292929 The OSS Rollout Plan ................................................................................................................................. 34 2.2 Procurement of services ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ................................... 434343 3 --- Communication and Visibility ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ..................... 444444 3.1 Project Communication and Visibility Plan ................................................................................................................................................................................... ........................................... 444444 3.2 Project Communication Results ................................................................................................................................................................................... ............................................................................................. ................ 454545 STAR2 Facebook: Facts and Figures .......................................................................................................... 47 4 --- Financial situation ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ .................................................................................. ............... 505050 5 --- Annexes ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ................................................................................................ ..................... 525252 Project Activities Photo gallery ................................................................................................................. 52 Project Deliverables for the Reporting Period .......................................................................................... 57 2 Figures Figure 1 Extent of Project activities .............................................................................................................. 15 Figure 2 Share of man and women ............................................................................................................... 16 Figure 3 Managers’ participation .................................................................................................................. 16 Figure 4 Participants by gender .................................................................................................................... 17 Figure 5 Training and configuration .............................................................................................................. 29 Figure 6 OSSIS live ......................................................................................................................................... 30 Figure 7 Total number of Applications from the start, November 2018 to April 2019 ................................ 30 Figure 8 Applications by month from the start, November 2018 to April 2019 ........................................... 31 Figure 9 Number of Services processed by month from Nov 2018 to April 2019 ........................................ 31 Figure 10 Applications and services .............................................................................................................. 31 Figure 11 Service applications, per municipality, in a map view .................................................................. 32 Figure 12 Facebook graphs ........................................................................................................................... 47 3 Acronyms AAC Albanian Association of Communes AAM Albanian Association of Municipalities AITR Agency for the Implementation of the Territorial Reform ASLG Agency for Support Self-Local Governance ALA Association of Local Autonomy ASPA Albanian School of Public Administration CB Capacity Building CDR Combined Delivery Report CoE Council of Europe CGF Classification of Government Functions CS Civil society CSL Civil Service Law CSO Civil Society Organization DLDP Decentralization and Local Development Program DLG Decentralization and Local Governance DOPA Department of Public Administration e-PAV Electronic Platform of Local Administration FIL Freedom on Information Law GDA General Directory of Archives GDT General Directorate