Good governance, a precondition for the country's development and consolidation

The KLGI Institute held a three-day modular training in the Republic of Albania on the topic ‘Standardisation and improvement of municipal services’, in order to address key topics in the field of local governance in Kosovo, such as good governance, the decentralisation process, public administration reform and the performance of civil servants.

Participants in the modular training were representatives of Kosovo's municipalities, as well as the working group for drafting the Law on the Functioning of Public Administration and the Law on the Civil Service, at whose request the KLGI Institute organised a separate workshop as part of this module.

In addition to lectures and discussions, this modular training also included joint visits and meetings at institutions of the Republic of Albania with the relevant actors, in order to gain advanced practices and models for the local level.

The Executive Director of the KLGI Institute, Besnik Tahiri, gave a presentation on good governance as the main precondition for the country's development. In this context, Tahiri emphasised to the participants the international concepts, main dimensions and principles of good governance.

Tahiri concluded that governance is good only when there is in-depth consultation, consensus is reached within society and public resources are in the hands of the country. It is therefore extremely important to find the right formula, to make the governance triangle (the State, the Private Sector and Civil Society) functional and to fully understand the level of responsibility, so that there is development and consolidation of the country.

The participants also learned about the theoretical concepts of decentralisation, from its history and the debate around it to the current situation in Kosovo, 10 years after the start of this process. Director Tahiri stressed that decentralisation is a process and as such requires an inclusive course of action.

For his part, Tefik Mahmuti, Director of the Department of Civil Service Administration at the Ministry of Public Administration, addressed the topic of Public Administration Reform and Increasing the Performance of Civil Servants. Among other things, he stressed the need to involve all actors in the process of amending and drafting the package of public administration laws, laws that directly affect public administration reform at all levels.

“This grant has been funded by the Democratic Society Promotion (DSP) project – funded by the Swiss Cooperation Office in Kosovo (SCO-K) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark (DANIDA) and managed by the Kosovar Civil Society Foundation (KCSF)”.