Consultancy on Implementation of Access to Information Reforms in Albania

Country: 
Albania
Category: 
Good Governance
Starting Date: 
15-08-2010
Ending Date: 
15-04-2011
Donor agency: 
World Bank
Staff: 
1
Detailed description of the project: 
An access to information study – funded by the Governance Partnership Facility/World Bank – is proposed that will undertake a comparative analysis of the implementation of Access to Information (ATI) legislation in a set of countries with diverse capacity and institutional settings. 
 
Key issues of the analisys:
 
  • Documentation of the experience of ATI reforms in different country settings – the record on implementation, and role in improving accountability; 
  • Investigation of the influence of stakeholders, institutions, and capacity levels on the effectiveness with which reforms were implemented, especially if institutional dimensions or capacity issues have a more marked influence on the effectiveness with which ATI reforms were implemented in diverse settings; and 
  • Researching what evidence exists of the difference that implementation of ATI is making in enhancing access to information - the effectiveness of ATI laws in enhancing transparency and access to information by citizens, and accountability of public officials.
 
Type of services provided:
 
  • In-depth analysis of the access to information policies, systems, inputs, and processes in the public agencies (departments, ministries, or agencies)
  • Analysis of the actors, institutions, incentives, and capacities that conditioned how ATI policies were implemented in each of these sectors;
  • Analysis of the role of each of other actors in the sectors – such as civil society groups frontline service providers etc., and whether they played any role in the ways in which access to information was implemented in these sectors.
  • Impact of the implementation of access to information reforms in each sector and on administrative processes in each agency.