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Albania

ECES Training for Albanian Central

Electoral Commission

uropean Centre for Electoral Support (ECES) Commission of Albania steam from the experience
launched the first of its trainings with the that we have matured in the 11 years since our
E Central Electoral Commission of Albania foundation in the field of electoral and democratic
On October 20, 2021. The three-day training on strengthening through the provision of advisory
Preventing-Mitigating-Managing Electoral Conflicts services. We are extremely happy to start today
and Conflict Mapping was led by Daria Paprocka this series of trainings for the Central Electoral
and Hamza Fassi-Fihri, two ECES Senior Electoral Commission of Albania.”
Experts and delivered to 20 members of the The training session covered different aspects of
Albanian Central Electoral Commission. This training the of leadership in the electoral cycle with the goals
has been done in a series of coaching sessions that of:
ECES will deliver at the electoral commission staff 1) Strengthen the leadership capacities of
and directors in the upcoming months. electoral stakeholders;
The event kicked off with the initial remarks 2) Provide the necessary tools to detect,
of ECES Founder and Executive Director, Fabio analyze, prevent or resolve electoral fragilities
Bargiacchi: “Thanks to the help and facilitation throughout the electoral cycle;
of ECES Electoral expert Alma Lama, we start our 3) Increase the level of confidence and self-
collaboration between ECES and Central Electoral awareness.

Credit: ECES
Link for the original article: https://www.eces.eu/en/posts/eces-training-for-albanian-central-electoral-commission

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