STARII Progress Report May-September 2019 Consolidation of Territorial and Administrative Reform (STAR 2) Contents Figures ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 Acronyms .................................................................................................................................................... 3 Project factsheet ......................................................................................................................................... 5 Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ................................................................................ ......... 777 The Report................................................................................................................................................... 7 Need for project extension ......................................................................................................................... 7 General progress ......................................................................................................................................... 7 Specific progress ......................................................................................................................................... 7 Project Visibility ........................................................................................................................................ 10 Project Sustainability ................................................................................................................................ 10 Next Steps ................................................................................................................................................. 11 1 --- Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ .................................................................................... ....... 151515 1.1 Context ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ........................................................................................... .............. 151515 1.2 Project metrics ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ............................................................................... ...... 161616 Gender equality and non-discrimination .................................................................................................. 17 2 --- Implementation Progress ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ..................... 191919 2.1 PrProgressogress by component, output and activity ................................................................................................................................................................................... ......................... 191919 Graphs and statistics OSSIS ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ......................... 333333 2.2 Procurement of services ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ..................... 454545 3 --- Communication and Visibility ................................................................................................................................................................................... ........................................................................................... .............. 474747 3.1 Project Communication and Visibility Plan ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................. 474747 3.2 Project Communication Results ................................................................................................................................................................................... ....................................................................................... .......... 474747 STAR2 Facebook: Facts and Figures .......................................................................................................... 49 4 --- Financial situation ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ ........................................... 535353 5 --- Annexes ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................................................................................ .......................................................................................... ............. 555555 Project Activities Photo gallery ................................................................................................................. 55 Project Deliverables for the Reporting Period ................................................................................................................................................................................... ................................... 606060 2 Figures Figure 1 Financial snapshot ........................................................................................................................... 16 Figure 2 Extent of Project activities .............................................................................................................. 16 Figure 3 Share of man and women ............................................................................................................... 17 Figure 4 Participants by gender .................................................................................................................... 18 Figure 5 Training and configuration .............................................................................................................. 33 Figure 6 OSSIS live ......................................................................................................................................... 34 Figure 7 Total number of Applications from the start, November 2018 to September 2019 ...................... 34 Figure 8 Applications by month from the start, Nov 2018 to September 2019 .......................................... 35 Figure 9 Applications and service provision .................................................................................................. 35 Figure 10 Service applications, per municipality, in a map view (online tool, loads first this semester May- September 2019) ........................................................................................................................................... 36 Figure 11 Facebook graphs ........................................................................................................................... 49 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 of Taxes GoA Government of Albania HR Human Resources HRM Human Resources Management HRMIS Human Resources Management Information System HRMU Human Resources Management Unit IPMG Integrated Policy Management Group