TIRANA, June 10 /ATA/ In Tirana, there was held the two-day conference on public administration reform, institutional integrity, accountability and public trust in state institutions.
The conference brought together government officials and civil society representatives from across the Western Balkans.
The regional conference entitled “Pursuing integrity-driven and sustainable public administration reforms in Western Balkans” was organized by the Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM, Albania).
The first day of the conference was dedicated to monitoring public administration reform.
The conference opened with the speech of Sotiraq Hroni, Executive Director of IDM, Oriana Arapi, Director General of the Prime Ministry of Albania, Florian Hauser, DG Near from the European Commission Gregor Virant, Head of SIGMA-OECD Program and Keida Meta, Head sector from the Department of Public Administration.
“Governments need to have professional people working in the civil service, and they need to make sure that the careers of civil servants are attractive to citizens,” said Florian Hauser.
“If we do not succeed and if we do not provide services to citizens and businesses, then our work is worthless. The better the public administration works, the more developed the state will be,” he added.
Albanian government officials underlined that the digitalization of services has been the main priority of the Albanian government and that much progress has been made in this regard.
The second day of the conference was dedicated to the integrity of institutions and public administration.
The conference was organized in the framework of the regional project “Strengthening Civil Society in the Western Balkans for a Reformed Public Administration – WeBER 2.0” and the project “Strengthening Integrity to Improve Public Services”./p.s./
