TIRANA, March 9/ATA/-Albania has made remarkable progress as compared to the other countries of the Western Balkans on the public administration reform.
SIGMA, a joint initiative of the OECD and the European Union on Support for Improvement in Governance and Management, organized in Tirana the workshop on the topic “Challenges and reform of Public Administration in Albania”. During the workshop were presented the key findings of the Monitoring Report of this institution on 2017, in regard to progress of our country with reform in the public administration.
Attending the event were Deputy Prime Minister Senida Mesi, SIGMA Albania Coordinator Bagrat Tunyan, and EU representatives.
Mesi evaluated highly the SIGMA Monitoring Report describing it a rather valuable instrument necessary for setting the priority during the reform process. She highlighted the fact that the report has made evident Albania’s progress as compared to the previous years.
Saying that there is still a lot of work to be done so that to make our administration more efficient, Mesi emphasized that during the last 6 months, the reform in the public administration has been at the top of government of Albania priority list aiming at building a professional and responsible public administration that will serve as a key instrument to improvement of quality of the public services offered to the citizens and businesses.
Mesi highlighted the prime minister’s strong political will at achievement of concrete results in this field while the country is on the marathon of EU accession process./m.m/ /a.g/p.s./
