Twelve projects selected for Euro 4.6 mln in Italian funding

TIRANA, Sept. 23 – Twelve projects have been selected to benefit Euro 4.6 million as part of Italy’s Debt for Development Swap Program. The beneficiaries are represented by national authorities for five projects and by local ones for seven projects, among which, the Ministry of Social Welfare and Youth, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry for Innovation and Public Administration, the Municipalities of Kor衬 ȯrovode, Fier, Himara, Puke, Burrel and Bulqize.
“These twelve projects are designed to expand the technical vocational training to the branch of fashion for the footwear industry; to restructure obsolete school buildings; to support the educational placement of deaf children through the introduction and use of new information technologies; to promote the social inclusion of children and young people with disabilities; to strengthen cancer prevention for women; to introduce a new health information system for improving the provision of services and public spending in health; to develop rural areas to promote rural tourism and the diversification of productive activities for the creation of new employment opportunities and contribute to the recovery of the cultural, natural and architectural of the country,” says the Italian Development Cooperation.
The Debt for Development Swap Program (IADSA) is meant to support the implementation of projects in the social sector proposed by the concerned Albanian public institutions. Eligible projects must be based on the strategic priorities included in the National Strategy for Development and Integration, updated sectoral and crosscutting strategies and National Action Plan for Implementation of the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) and related to education, public health, social inclusion of vulnerable categories, employment generation, sustainable development of the territory in a long-term perspective in order to support job creation also in the rural areas of the country.