Project title: "An active nucleus monitoring organizations in Albania, - a contributing factor
towards the European Integration"
Time frame: July 2012 – January 2013
Where: Berat, Shkodra, Elbasan and Tirana
Financial supported: Open Society Foundation for Albania” (SOROS)
Project budget: 9.900 USD
The aim of the project is to establish a nucleus of organizations willing to work towards monitoring and watchdogging environmental issues, strengthen their partnership with organizations and successful networks in the Western Balkans and to improve the capacities and knowledges on monitoring and environmental vigilance among Albanian NGOs.
The main activities include: training of Albanian organizations for watchdogging on environmental issues, networking and lobbying, drafting a position paper about a problematic concern for NGOs, Internship for Albanian organizations interested in monitoring and watchdogging. As part of this project was conducted a roundtable entitled "Bay of Vlora, risk for health or a potential for bussines".