Save The Children : Albania : Projects

Education
Ensuring quality education services for children in Albania is still an enormous challenge. Save the Children Albania's Education Programme works to create better and quality schools for all children with particular focus to the most marginalized. We are working to improve quality of teaching and help children learn more effectively and participate meaningfully in the school life.

Early Childhood Development
Education services for children at early ages are very limited and far from reaching the international standards. With teachers, parents and education specialists as our partners, Save the Children in Albania's Early Childhood Development Programme is striving to ensure that children at 3-6 ages, including those in greatest need, receive and benefit from improved child development and education services in the kindergarten.

Child Rights Governance
Child Rights situation does not take a priority in the agenda of the policy-making class. Save the Children in Albania’s Child Rights Governance Programme is continually pressing for positive changes where necessary, by lobbying and influencing government policies and practices, strengthening state structures and civil society which monitor and advocate for children's rights and also empowering children to exercise their rights and influence decisions that bring about changes in their future.

Child Protection
Many children and youth in Albania continue to be subjected to violence, exploitation and abuse. In addition, school drop-out rates, street children, child labor and domestic violence continue to be issues of serious concern.Save the Children in Albania works to ensure children’s rights to protection and promotes the establishment of protective networks and spaces for children and youth to reduce risks of exploitation and abuse and strengthen children’s resilience.

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Child Protection Juvenile Justice
The Ministry of Justice, evidence that the number of juveniles in conflict with law is increasing every year and the system is not able to cope with such an increase. In Tirana are reported about 50-70 cases of children Under 14 in conflict with the law per year and it is registered the lack of a child friendly environment within the Police Commissariats during the interviews and completion of procedures. In addition, the measures to receive educational training are not enforced given the lack of adequate infrastructure and services for reintegration and the minors result to be recidivist in the majority of cases.

To better respond to these needs, Save the Children in Partnership with UNICEF and General Directorate of Prisons has extended its support to juveniles in Kavaja Institute aiming to improve detention services for juveniles and providing better life opportunities for their future.
In cooperation with Tirana’s Police Commissariats and three services providers: Municipality/Street Children Center, FBSH and Arsis Center, children Under 14 in conflict with the law in Tirana will have the chances to get enhanced access to justice and enjoy social and educational services. A new established referral system will respond to the need of protecting Under 14 children in conflict with the law and combat recidivism.

Regional Child Trafficking Response Programme
Save the Children continues to see child trafficking as a regional priority in South East Europe (SEE). Through this programme, Save the Children aims to increase protection of the rights of trafficked children and children at risk of being trafficked from the six selected countries. These are : Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Kosovo, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia.

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