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IP3 in collaboration with SEGURA Consulting-USA has drafted an assessment on Public Private Dialogue and Regulatory Impact in Albania

In the framework of the Regional Economic Growth project supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), IP3 in collaboration with SEGURA Consulting-USA has conducted an assessment on Public Dialogue Private and Regulatory Impact in Albania. The main findings of the study were presented at the regional conference "Better Regulation and Competitiveness in the Western Balkans" in Belgrade, in addition to the studies conducted for Macedonia and Serbia.  

Dialogue between the public and private sectors is not a new concept. It has been a feature of public life for decades in some countries. But recent years have seen an upsurge in interest in PPD as a means for promoting private sector development. PPD has become an important part of the private sector reform process, and is here to stay. This means it is increasingly necessary to promote understanding of what PPD is, and what it can and can’t achieve.

PPD comes in many forms. It can be structured or ad hoc, formal or informal, wide-ranging or focused on specific issues. It can be initiated by forward-thinking governments, frustrated entrepreneurs, or third parties such as international donor agencies. Sometimes it involves only a few private sector representatives, sometimes it includes labor unions and civil society groups. It can take place at local, national, or international level. It can be organized by industry sector, cluster or value chain, or it can cover cross-cutting economic issues.

The main potential benefits of PPD include: -Facilitating investment climate reforms by supporting champions for reform, creating momentum, and accelerating the reform process. Public-private dialogue has a range of potential impacts, but it do not achieve anything on its own – it works by facilitating, accelerating, or cementing other ongoing initiatives, ones which without the boost of stakeholder pressure would falter or fail.

The most tangible benefits of PPD are the policy reforms it can precipitate. These can include new legislation, the amendment or scrapping of existing legislation, removal or simplification of regulations and controls, standardization of procedures across different jurisdictions, and establishment of new institutions.

IP3 is the institute selected by USAID/Washington DC to analyze the practice of trade in Albania as part of "Regional Economic Growth" project.

This project consists in offering trade facilitation assistance. Its main activities relate to technical assistance for creation and institutional strengthening of the National Trade Facilitation Committee, capacity building for NTFC memebers to engage in efficient and effective dialogue on trade facilitation policies and the coordination of B-REDI trade facilitation assistance in Albania, Macedonia and Serbia.

IP3 also supports the Ministry of Economic Development, Tourism, Trade and Entrepreneurship in facilitating and coordinating international trade issues and in creating and functioning of National Trade Facilitation Committee. 

IP3 has also design and build the official website of the Committee under REG Project.

IP3 has conducted an analysis of Private Sector in order to identify its opprtunities, challenges and good models of success in private sector.

REG project is conducting an assessment in Macedonia and Albania to analyze the private sector, concretely to assess the opportunities and challenges that affect private sector in order to develop recommendations for potential private sector engagement strategies. IP3 was committed to do the same assessment in Albania. The main goal of the Private Sector Engagement (PSE) Assessment is to locate companies (or groups of companies or Business Service Organizations (BSO)) that are active or are considering private sector engagement in Albania.

IP3 with the support of Assist Impact and in cooperation with the Municipality of Saranda, conducted a feasibility study to determine the possibility of managing the beaches through a public-private partnership.

The purpose of this feasibility study is to provide the necessary decision-making for the development of a new strategy for managing the beaches in the city of Saranda in the function of public-private partnership.

Saranda is one of the most important tourist attractions of the Albanian Riviera. Given its coastal access and Mediterranean climate, Saranda is becoming more and more an attractive tourist destination. Tourism is thus the major economic resources, while other resources include services, fisheries and construction. The costal zone needed interventions to reduce negative tourist’s impact and to improve “hot spot” issues as coastal (beaches) Management and Protection, in cases caused by lack of beaches management, organised city coastal (beaches) as well as misuse of public beach space.

The need for Public Private Partnership is seen as the single and the best way for capital investment, since that municipal funds are insufficient to finance its duties and local borrowing is minimised. The idea is to implement a “design to contract” project for the service management, under a PPP scheme, of the public beaches of Saranda city. The overall objective of the Project is to bring in the first PPP feasible and successful cooperation between LGs and private market operators into the Saranda Touristic city, by implementing a first successful coastal (beach) management project in the MoS, which could then expand as a “best practice” into a beaches management and service delivery strategy for the whole region and for the other seaside cities. The project will be developed using a combined methodology. Qualitative and quantitative research will be used, during the project stages especially on designing of feasibility study.

IP3 has conducted a deep analysis on the economic and social impact of territorial and administrative reform in the northen part of Albania. including Qark of Lezha, Kukes and Shkodra

This project was financed by UNDP. All the finding from the analysis were shared with interested parties during public hearings in every functional zone.

Also IP3 has drafted a study on the expected impact of the territorial administrative reform in meeting the legal functions of local government with the aim of increasing efficiency and maximizing the use of territory and national resources. The impact of the reform was analyzed in several key directions in the rationalization of financial resources, infrastructure and public services, the efficient use of local public funds, the improvement of the small business climate, support for agriculture and rural development, and ultimately the impact on European Union integration and cohesion policies. This study was realized with the support of UNDP. 

IP3 has analyzes regional policies, legal and financial instruments to support and strengthen institutional mechanisms and financial instruments for promoting regional development in Albania.

The Institute of Public and Private Policies (IP3) in cooperation with the Prime Minister Office and the support of the ASCS (Agency for the Support of Civil Society) has compiled the study "Instruments for Promotion of Regional Development", which will be followed by the necessary reform. IP3 and other organizations are part of discussions and debates about institutional initiation of regional development. This study is an attempt to create a Regional Development Model.

Also, the IP3 has contributed to Regional Development Reform in the "Drafting the Legal Framework of the Regional Development Agency in Albania" in cooperation with the Coordination Unit of Development Programs and Strategic Planning in the Prime Minister Office and with the support of the Austrian Development Agency (ADA ). The conducted study analyzes regional policy issues and analyzes the assessment of institutional and legal instruments to promote regional development in Albania.

IP3 has also conducted another study to propose financial instruments for regional development, within the framework of the establishment of the National Agency for Regional Development (NARD), the Regional Economic Development Agency (RED), the four Regional Development Agency (RDA) and drafting policies and financial programming of the new Regional Management Model in Albania. These proposals were consulted during a workshop with key actors in drafting policy development, programming and implementation of financial instruments, in function of regional development.

This study was carried out again in cooperation with Coordination Unit of Development Programs and Strategic Planning in the Prime Minister Office and with the support of ASCS (Agency for the Support of Civil Society)

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