In cooperation with the Coalition for Reform, Integration and Consolidated Institutions (KRIIK), we trained representatives of public institutions in 3 regions of the country: Durrës, Gjirokastër, Korçë.
The three-day training aimed to familiarize them with the provisions of the Electoral Code and the acts of the CEC, as well as the obligations arising from them, regarding the reporting of public activities in the Institutional Reporting Interface (IRI) at the CEC.
The training was attended by the main local institutional, political, civil society and media actors, to be informed in more depth and to discuss the need to ensure the integrity of elections, without wasting state resources.
The training included theoretical and practical sessions, mixing concrete examples and practical sessions to consolidate the knowledge of the attendees regarding the obligations of public institutions to report public activities during the 4-month period before the election date.
The Central Election Commission presented the steps that public institutions must follow to register in the reporting interface (NRI), access to the interface, the deadlines that they must respect for reporting a public activity, the types of public activities that must be reported in the NRI, and how the administrative review of public activities reported in the interface is carried out. The role of the CEC structure for reviewing reported activities.
Also, this training explained in detail the categories of prohibited public activities, activities that are prohibited from being carried out by heads of institutions or other employees of institutions during the 4-month period before the election date as well as during the election campaign.
The training was carried out within the framework of the “Democracy Commission Small Grants Program” project of the United States Embassy in Tirana. The Institutional Reporting Interface (IRI) is made possible by the Council of Europe Project ‘Strengthening the Integrity of Elections in Albania’ with the financial support of the Federal Republic of Germany.