Background
The Government of Albania has embarked on a comprehensive administrative and territorial reform ahead of the local elections scheduled for mid-2015. The relatively high number and small size of most local government units in a country with a relatively small area coupled with concerns of efficiency and quality of service provision has increasingly been considered as a serious obstacle to local governance and development. The need for territorial and administrative review and consolidation of local government units has emerged in national policy debates since 2003 and the importance of its considerations have been growing increasingly as a necessity to strengthen the efficiency of local public administration and improve its role on service provision and local development.
Responsibilities
- Carry out required reviews of existing country and international relevant studies and findings on the necessity and approaches for an
administrative territorial reform and validate relevant recommendations
- Review of available data and information as well as identify the necessity for further review/analysis and additional data in function of
creating an informed recommendation and approach on the administrative-territorial reform
- Develop methodologies and criteria to be applied for the proposed administrative and territorial reform of first and second levels of local
governments in Albania
- Elaborate concept papers, guidelines, policy documents to be reviewed and discussed at various consultative level and gather feedback for
further refining of these documents
- Recommend approaches and guidelines for promoting voluntary mergers and their communication to the local governments
Requirement
- University or post-University degree in public policy, public administration, economics, finance, statistics, law or other relevant area
- At least 7 years-experience working in areas of local government, decentralization, local government finance, intergovernmental fiscal
issues, strategic territorial planning, local economic development or similar
- Excellent knowledge of English language
Deadline: 20 January 2014