Capacity building through research partnership. A case study on decentralisation and governance in Northern Albania.

Sonst. Personen	Gerdoci, Blendi (Hrsg.); Zürcher, Dieter (Hrsg.)
Institution	Zentrum für Vergleichende und Internationale Studien (Zürich)
Titel	Capacity building through research partnership. A case study on decentralisation and governance in Northern Albania. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Capacity Building durch Forschungspartnerschaft. Eine Fallstudie über Dezentralisierung und Governance in Nordalbanien.
Quelle	Zürich (2007), 155 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CIS Working Papers. 31
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
ISSN	1662-7504
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Forschung; Forschungspolitik; Entwicklungsland; Innere Führung; Nachsozialistische Gesellschaft; Zivilgesellschaft; Globalisierung; Wettbewerbsfähigkeit; Qualifikation; Qualifikationserwerb; Dezentralisierung; Kooperation; Albanien; Schweiz
Abstract	"The publication is testimony of a very productive and encouraging cooperation between the University of Shkodra (represented by the Faculty of Economics) and the NADEL/ ETH of Switzerland (Master of Advanced Studies in Development and Cooperation). The joint research project has brought together lecturers and researchers from Albania and Switzerland and has enabled to jointly analyse, learn and exchange views and ideas. The subjects of the study are various aspects of decentralisation, its policy design as well as the outcomes of this reform process in Northern Albania. The economic, political and social transformation during the past 17 years has brought many problems and challenges to the Albanian society and especially to the peripheral areas such as the Region of Shkodra particularly. The accelerating globalization process has further exposed Albania to global trends and worldwide competition. Yet, people and organizations are responsible to adapt to these new circumstances in order to benefit from newly emerging opportunities. Therefore, people and organizations at the local have to change their behaviour and values. Parallel to this globalization of the economy many decisions relevant for the local context must be rooted in the local social and cultural context. For sustainable local development, local decisions matter as do central government policies, but it has become clear, that decisions taken at the local level offer better perspectives to cater for local needs in many areas of public services such as health, education, water and local roads. Albania is now in an important and impressive process of decentralizing many of its public service functions closer to the local people on the basis of the subsidiarity principle." (excerpt). Contents: Artan Hoxha: Does decentralisation support good governance? Decentralisation in Albania - a top down perspective; Terezina Hila, Julinda Sokoli: Merging communes - an important issue of the decentralisation process; Dieter Zürcher, Arjeta Troshani: The role of civil society in decentralisation and better local governance - a case study of Northern Albania; Esmeralda Uruci: The perception of transparency at local level - Shkodra case study; Edlira Tukaj, Drita Kruja: Local government functions and activity.
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2009/1