Publications

This policy brief offers a critical analysis of Albanian participatory rural development in the context of European policies. It elaborates on today's main challenges by outlining policy alternatives for decision-makers in the design of the new Agriculture and Rural...

This Guide prepared by Institute for Democracy and Mediation, with the financial and technical support of the UN Women in Albania comes in an effort to enable women economic empowerment by increasing their knowledge in regard to development, diversification and...

This manual aims to offer practical steps on how to build a Local Action Group (LAG) and also provides concrete examples taken from the European experience showing the building process of LAGs in specific localities. The publication was prepared in the framework of...

Farmers’ membership in organizations, such as associations or other forms, happens for a various set of reasons; but all of them aim what can be simply defined as activism to increase members’ organization success. Based on the situation and the difficulties of...

Approved at the closing section of the 2nd European Rural Parliament. Held on November 4-6, 2015, Schärding, Austria, attended by 240 delegates from 40 European countries. 1.We, representatives of many people and organisations rooted in rural Europe, have adopted this...

This report represents an assessment of capacities of the rural civil society in Albania. Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative techniques, this assessment report provides a historic view of the rural CS development in Albania and the region and...