Albania Country Action Plan for the Women's Legal Rights Initiative, October 1, 2004-September 30, 2005.

摘要

The USAID Womens Legal Rights Initiative (WLR) is a task order under the Women in Development (WID) Indefinite Quantity Contract (IQC), which was signed by Chemonics International, Inc. on September 30, 2002. The WLR project is designed to contribute to the Office of Women in Development (EGAT/WID) Strategic Objective 3 (SO3) goals and intermediate results--Women's Legal Rights Increasingly Protected--and strengthen USAID Mission strategic objectives, particularly with regard to democracy and governance. The WLR project team, in coordination with the USAID Europe and Eurasia (E&E) Regional Bureau, USAID/Albania, and EGAT/WID, selected Albania as a focus country for WLR activities in the E&E region. The WLR team worked closely with USAID/Albania to identify constraints and gaps in women's legal rights programming and design activities to address them. As a result of extensive consultations with USAID/Albania, civil society organizations (CSOs), and government officials, WLR activities in Albania during the past year focused on three areas: anti-trafficking, family law, and domestic violence. These three areas were identified as priority issues by USAID and stakeholders in Albania.