Since the year 2009, local government units in ALbania are obliged to prepare a medium-term budget based on law 9936 on the Management of the Budgetary System in the Republic of Albania. With the mediumterm budget, the law requires an integrated policy and financial plan for a time-frame of three years. The law No.68/2017 on […]

The manual on Annual Budget Execution and Monitoring (ABEM) for Local Government Officials is part of a series of training modules designed to respond to training needs of local government officials on public financial management practices. It is the result of intensive efforts of several authors coming from different backgrounds. This manual together with the […]

The manual on Annual Budget Preparation (ABP) for Local Government Officials is part of a series of training modules designed to respond to training needs of local government officials on public financial management practices. It is the result of intensive efforts of several authors coming from different backgrounds. This manual, together with the manual on […]

The training manual “Strategic Development Planning and Performance-Based Budgeting in the Medium-Term” for Local Government Officials is part of a series of training curricula designed to respond to the training needs of local government officials on public financial management practices. It is the result of intensive efforts of several authors coming from different backgrounds. This […]

The “Manual on Long and Medium Term Strategic and Financial Planning” is the result of intensive efforts of several authors and experiences. This manual is based on an initiative undertaken by InterCooperation in Albania, under the Program for Decentralization and Local Development Program in Albania. The preparation of the document went through a process of […]

Currently, the local budgeting instrument is evolving from an instrument that reports “numbers” of planned expenditure and revenue for the next year towards a comprehensive multi-year planning instrument, integrating financial information on revenues and expenditure with information on policy plans to be implemented. However, many local government units still consider the traditional budget as the only relevant policyplanning document. Though, the […]