We are pleased to share with you”Co-PLAN Gazette” (Issue no.7), which covers the latest developments of the second half of 2014, with particular focus on the area of energy efficiency. Aspects such as the importance of a multi-sectoral approach in addressing the issues and benefits of energy efficiency, a picture of the current state of the housing stock today, and recommendations for the promotion and enhancement of energy rehabilitation practices
Kemi kënaqësinë të ndajmë me ju numrin e 7-të të “Co-PLAN Gazette”, e cila mbulon zhvillimet më të fundit të gjysmës së dytë të vitit 2014, me fokus të veçantë në fushën e efiçiencës së energjisë. Aspekte si rëndësia e një qasje multi-sektoriale në trajtimin e çështjeve dhe përfitimeve nga efiçienca e energjisë, një tablo të gjendjes aktuale tëstokut të banesave në vend, si dhe rekomandime konkrete për promovimin dhe
Today yet another public space in the city was reinstated its deserved value and importance. The community from Municipal Unit no.5 in the city of Tirana, in cooperation with Co-PLAN, the Municipality of Tirana and POLIS University, have worked together for several months to transform the space they share in their residential area. They have greened the area, added functions to it as well as recreational space based on the needs and agreement of the residents. The result of this participatory planning is admirable.
Sot një tjetër hapësirë publike në qytet rimori vlerat dhe rëndësinë e merituar. Komuniteti i një zone tek njësia bashkiake nr.5 së bashku me Co-PLAN, Bashkinë Tiranë dhe Universitetin POLIS, kanë punuar së bashku për disa muaj, për të shndërruar hapësirën mes pallateve të tyre. Ata e kanë gjelbëruar, sistemuar, kanë shtuar hapësirat rekreative, sipas vullnetit dhe dakordësisë së përbashkët të qytetarëve të zonës. Rezultati është i admirueshëm.
Co-PLAN, Instituti për Zhvillimin e Habitatit në bashkëpunim me Bashkinë Tiranë dhe International Finance Corporation (IFC) organizuan sot Tryezën e Rrumbullakët “Manaxhimi i Integruar i Mbetjeve Urbane në Qytetin e Tiranës”. Kjo tryezë synoi prezantimin e studimit të fizibilitetit që është kryer për manaxhimin e integruar të mbetjeve në qytetin e Tiranës, dhe hapjen e një diskutimi me aktorët e interesit, organizatat e shoqërisë civile dhe bizneset për të diskutuar zgjidhjet më të përshtatshme për manaxhimin e integruar të mbetjeve urbane në qytetin e Tiranës.
Tirana, June 2012 – Co-PLAN joined in the US Embassy [in Tirana] Call to encourage the citizens to come together and speak up. ‘Bëj të dëgjohet zëri yt’ marks the first step of this new initiative undertaken by the US Ambassador in Tirana, Mr. Alexander A. Arvizu, entitled ‘ACT NOW – Albanian Citizens Together Now’. At first, Ambassador Arvizu introduced his initiative to representatives of civil society, notable personalities in the country and media representatives in a meeting held at the National Theatre. He stressed the importance of the citizen knowing his rights and responsibilities, as well as becoming a proactive part of city-making and decision-making.
Tirana, June 2012 – 90 participants from eight different South-East Eauropean (SEE) states were brought together to a workshop on Urban Planning and Land Managementwith a focus on modernizing legal and regulatory framework for spatial and land use planning in SEE. The workshop was organized by the World Bank Institute, as part of the City-to-City (C2C) Dialogues, which is an incentive under the WB-Austria Urban Partnership Program (UPP) launched in December 2011. The overarching objective of the C2C is to facilitate a dialogue and peer-learning among city practitioners.
Tirana, September 2012 – POLIS University in collaboration with Co-PLAN, Institute for Habitat Development, and the Municipality of Tirana are organizing for the first time the ‘Tirana Architecture Weeks’. In this line, a series of activities, exhibitions, urban actions, workshop, and a four-day-conference on Re-appropriation of the city will be held. The regional-conference is organized by Co-PLAN in collaboration with POLIS University, EXPEDITIO and Kor-CSD, and will focus on the transformation of City Squares, as one of the key events of the Tirana Architecture Weeks.
Tirana, October 4, 2012 – Today, the USAID Planning and Local Governance Project in Albania” (PLGP) holds the Conference on Fiscal Decentralization. Working both at the national policy level and at the local level, PLGP aims to promote an inclusive dialogue and help build a bipartisan consensus on issues of strategic importance to local governments. Attendees include: the US Ambassador Alexander Arvizu, the Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, Mayors of PLGP partner LGUs, representatives from Ministries of Interior and Finance, donor community working in local governance and NGOs.
Four stories of four apartments in Tirana, two from the communist period, 1950/90’s and two constructed after 1990’s, were at the center of an exhibition organized in the premises of Polis University, displaying and analyzing functional changes, how they have influenced on the users quality of life and how are they related with the general conditions in the society in that period. This exhibition is a section of a broader research: “Quality of life change the quality of space”, conducted in cooperation with Co-Plan Institute for habitat development, through the project of research studies on the topic of “The Typology of Albanian Housing in its Balkan Context”.