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Learning

1 delivery linked to Adult learning participation.

Albaniasince 2014still operatingbears on Adult learning participation

Public vocational training centres of the National Agency for Employment and Skills

Albania's National Agency for Employment and Skills (AKPA) registered 11,250 trainees in 2021 in vocational courses at its ten regional public vocational training directorates, 7,052 of them on free places for registered jobseekers and other priority groups by the bulletin's text, after 15,143 in 2019 and 7,427 in the pandemic year 2020.

11,250 trainees, trainees registered in public vocational training centres (drofpp) during the year, 2021. 7,052 trainees, of whom on free places (registered unemployed jobseekers and priority groups), 2021. Agjencia Kombetare e Punesimit dhe Aftesive (AKPA), Buletini Statistikor 2021, section III.4 (participants in vocational training programmes), retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

The national employment and skills agency runs regional public training centres that offer short national and provider-level vocational courses, free for registered jobseekers and paid for others.

Preconditions

  • A network of regional public training centres under the employment agency
  • A national catalogue of short qualifications that centres can certify
  • Referral from employment offices so jobseekers reach free places

Limits: The agency reports on itself, on page 60 of an 83-page PDF in Albanian. The bulletin contradicts itself on the free places: the text on page 60 says 7,052 (about 63 percent), while Table 27 on page 61 and Table 29 on page 65 give 7,811 trainees on free places, 6,631 of them registered unemployed, so the free-place figure is uncertain by about 750 and the record carries the text figure. 2021 is the latest annual bulletin found at an open URL: the agency's publications page renders by script and no 2022 to 2025 bulletin was found, so the record cannot show the current scale, and 'operating' rests on the agency's site still listing course offers and centre notices on 2026-10-02, not on a count. The 2019 (15,143) and 2020 (7,427) figures are in the agency's 2019 and 2020 bulletins on the same host, not at the cited URL; the 2021 bulletin itself says 2021 was 50 percent above 2020, which fits the 2020 figure, and the 2019 figure was not re-checked. 2021 sits below 2019, but with pandemic disruption in both 2020 and 2021 the record does not call that an erosion. Counts are course registrations, not completions or unique people: Table 29 gives 6,180 certified of the 11,250. Most courses are short provider-level courses, but national-level courses can run up to two years. The started year is the earliest labour market bulletin the agency still hosts (2014); the public vocational training centres are older, and their founding year was not read at any source, so delivery began no later than 2014.

Adaptability

1 delivery linked to Disaster preparedness and recovery.

Albaniasince 2020still operatingbears on Disaster preparedness and recovery

Reconstruction programme after the 26 November 2019 earthquake

Albania's government reported in November 2021, two years after the 26 November 2019 earthquake, that more than 33,400 families had received reconstruction and repair grants worth ALL12.7 billion, that 13,325 people were receiving rent bonuses while new homes were built, and that 27 schools had been completed, while promising 4,500 individual houses and 12,000 apartments by spring 2022.

33,400 families, families that received reconstruction and repair grants, 2021-11-23. 27 schools, schools completed under the reconstruction programme, 2021-11-23. Office of the Prime Minister of Albania, newsroom page 'Rindertimi', 23 November 2021 (archived copy), retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

The government created a reconstruction ministry and programme within months of the earthquake, paid rent bonuses to displaced families and repair grants to owners through municipalities, and built new housing blocks and schools on cleared sites with state and donor funds.

Preconditions

  • A damage assessment that classifies each building, so grants match damage
  • A state budget line and donor pledges large enough to fund rebuilding at once
  • Municipalities able to administer grants and clear sites

Limits: The source is the government's own promotional page on its flagship programme, in Albanian; the live kryeministria.al page sits behind a bot wall, so the cited copy is the Internet Archive capture of July 2026. The figures are counts of grants, with no report of how many repaired homes were verified, and 'more than 33,400' is a floor. The completion promises for spring 2022 (4,500 houses, 12,000 apartments, no trace of the earthquake) are on the same page, and no official figure was found showing whether they were met, so status is left as operating. The page says EUR300 million of grants pledged at the donors' conference were active in more than 30 projects; the delivery is the government's, but the money is not all domestic. Nothing here measures preparedness before the earthquake.

Building

1 delivery linked to Large project delivery.

Albaniasince 2018delivered and closedbears on Large project delivery

Regional and Local Roads Connectivity Project

Albania's Albanian Development Fund rehabilitated about 70 km of regional and local roads under a US$50 million loan approved in April 2018, against 55 km planned, after civil works were awarded at up to 48 percent below estimate, with the closing date extended by 18 months to June 2024.

70 km, regional and local roads rehabilitated, 2024-06-30. 55 km, regional and local roads to be rehabilitated, original target, 2018-04-25. World Bank, Implementation Completion and Results Report, Albania Regional and Local Roads Connectivity Project (P163239), December 2024, retrieved 2026-10-02.

The move, and what it needed

A development fund that has implemented donor-financed roads since 1993 ran competitive bids among local firms, and used the savings to extend the list of roads.

Preconditions

  • An implementing agency with long donor procurement experience
  • Enough local contractors to make bidding competitive
  • A lender willing to let savings extend scope

Limits: This is a small programme of regional road contracts, not a major national build, and it is filed because no official cost or schedule outturn for a larger Albanian project (the Arbri road concession, the Durres to Kukes motorway) was found; it is weak evidence for the construct. The figures are the World Bank's, from a completion report on its own loan. The 55 and 70 km are in para. 12 and para. 58 (printed page 16); the report attributes the savings partly to the Albanian Development Fund's own cost estimation method, which it says overestimated costs, so 'under budget' partly measures a padded estimate. The 18-month extension is on the datasheet and in para. 21; the report cites COVID-19, the 2019 earthquake and land acquisition at Pogradec. 'About 70 km' is approximate in the source, and the source is inconsistent: the summary results table reports 62 km rehabilitated against the 55 km target, while the annex results table and the text give 70 km as of October 2024. The start year is the approval and signing year (2018); the first works date is not stated on the pages read.