The process of assessing the municipal performance has continued by the joint team of MLG and the DEMOS project. Hence, the Deputy Minister Mrs. Magbule Shkodra and the Deputy Minister Mrs. Fatbardha Emini, accompanied by the General Secretary Mrs. Rozafa Ukimeraj visited the assessment team to get know and to discuss about the progress of municipal reporting, the assessment methodology, the methodology for data verification and implementation of quality criteria.
Deputy Minister Shkodra encouraged the group to fully implement the rules of the Municipal Performance Management System, while emphasizing a very successful and independent completion of this process. On the other hand, Deputy Minister Emini underlined the need to push forward the idea of incorporating a Performance Grant within the framework of the amendment of the Law on Local Government Finance, in order to guarantee financial support to municipalities, encourage competition and more qualitative services at the local level.
This municipal performance assessment cycle is carried out for 36 municipalities that have submitted their reports on time. The evaluation criteria are based on strict written rules, which guarantee full compliance between the reported data and the parameters for the services provided. The data obtained in this phase will serve for the classification of municipalities that will meet the conditions for benefiting from the next grant for municipal performance.