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MCCA2 is committed to support advocacy efforts by civil society organizations through a tailored technical assistance program and funding.

Advocacy Capacity Assessment
 
The first step in the process was to conduct an advocacy capacity assessment, which involved in-depth interviews with representatives of 30 Albanian CSOs. The assessment was conducted in cooperation with the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC), a U.S. based organization which has led transformative community-driven projects across the globe. It was based a questionnaire developed and tested elsewhere by ISC, based on the Advocacy Index (AI), a USAID-developed tool specifically geared towards measuring the ability of organizations to successfully engage in advocacy campaigns and achieve advocacy goals, revised to fit with the Albanian context.

The interviews focused on the past involvement of the organizations with advocacy campaigns or other advocacy-related work. The goal was to learn about their experience with advocacy: the successes achieved, the challenges encountered, as well as what further training or technical assistance they would find most useful, in order to be able to develop a capacity building program and a subcontract program tailored to meet the needs and priorities of the Albanian civil society organizations.

After the interview, the detailed USAID Advocacy Index was used to rank organizations’ performance on each indicator on a scale of one to five with one being the least advanced and five being the most advanced (see Annex D). A score of zero was recorded in the rare cases that an indicator was not applicable for the CSO’s work. The scores were then averaged automatically in the CSO database for each of eight components. The average of these components results in an overall score for the CSO. Scores and comments made explaining each score were then used to compile individualized Assessment Reports for each organization that include recommended priority areas for improvement as well as specific recommendations. Individual reports have now already been shared with respective CSOs.

The overall conclusion of the assessment was that the group of the 30 CSOs assessed, have a strong set of basic advocacy skills. Half of the group scores are between 3.5 and 3.9 on the 5 point Advocacy Index. This is consistent with advocacy skills of CSOs throughout the region.

The Training Plan

Following the completion of the Advocacy Capacity Assessment, the project has prepared a capacity development training assistance plan which consists in group trainings as well as individual technical assistance, based on the self identified needs by the organization, and the assessment findings. 


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Friday, August 27, 2010


The application process for membership in the Tax Council begins

By September 23, 2010, chambers of commerce and industry, business associations, professional associations of accountants and accounting experts, other professional associations established by special law, as well as other non-profit organizations that represent large taxpayers’ groups would be able to submit at the Ministry of Finance their applications for membership in the Tax Council.

Established based on an April 2010 amendment of the law “On Tax Procedures in the Republic of Albania”, with support by MCCA2, this Council serves as a consultative body and a technical cooperation forum between the Ministry of Finance, General Directorate of Taxation, and taxpayers. Its purpose is to discuss and propose measures to ensure implementation of the tax legislation at a lower administrative cost for the tax administration and lower financial burden for the taxpayers.

For more information on the Tax Council and to download the Application Form for membership in the Council, please visit www.minfin.gov.al and www.tatime.gov.al.

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