Founding meeting of the Local Experts’ Competence Center and the ceremony of Regional Trainings’ Certification

On December 22nd, 2014, DLDP organized the founding meeting of the Local Experts Competence Center and the ceremony of Regional Trainings’ Certification on 1. Management of Public Finances; 2. Management of Urban Waste; 3. Project Cycle Management with focus InterLGU cooperation, and 4. E-governance.

The meeting aimed at DLDP presenting the concept of rising and functioning of the Competence Center and the start of the process of recruiting experts from 3 new Qarks and the consolidation of 4 groups of expertize according to the fields that DLDP supports. The experts selected to be part of this network are participants in regional trainings program in 3 new Qarks and 12 experts were selected from the current Competence Center from Shkodra and Lezha Qarks.

During the work in groups, experts discussed the needs for continuous education, as well as committed themselves to be active part of DLDP initiatives which support the functioning of Competence Centers. In conclusion, each of the experts groups proposed the calendar of activities for year 2015, which was considered as the first step of the establishment of the Competence Center. 

In the end of the activity, the ceremony for distribution of ASPA-issued certificates was held, in cooperation with DLDP and relevant ministries for regional trainings conducted in the framework of the program for increasing the DLDP capacities.