OSCE Presence in Albania
Democratization
The Presence supports a strengthened role of Albania’s Parliament and its capacity building in performing its core functions with a focus on oversight and representative ones. It offers support to parliamentarians and parliamentary committees to increase their legislative and oversight role by introducing standardized practices and tools, promoting outreach and public hearings, monitoring committee visits in different regions of the country, to help bringing greater accountability toward citizens and increased efforts to gain public trust.
The Presence provides continuous support to increase capacities of parliamentary staff through advanced e-working methods and technology, enhancing parliamentary transparency and capacities making use of using modernized and digitized processes of parliamentary work and documentation in particular.
Special focus is given to gender mainstreaming in the work of parliament, as well as involvement of youth and civil society in the decision-making process of the Parliament to ensure inclusiveness. Presence introduces MPs and Assembly staffers to best international and regional practices through co-operation with national European parliaments, OSCE/ODIHR, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly and OSCE Field Operations in the region.