Cooperation and Development Institute

📌 At the 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐫 𝐕𝐈𝐈𝐈 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦, Mr. Ardian Hackaj, CDI TCF Coordinator, moderated the panel on financing.

💬 Discussions addressed the persistent infrastructure financing gap that continues to impact delivery; the need for strategic coordination among partner countries; potential synergies drawn from blending instruments with national budgets; need to attract more EU-based companies; the role of Italy and Bulgaria in translating political backing into concrete financial engagement and the role of International Financial Institutions in structuring EU and commitments into bankable, multimodal project pipelines.

🔗 Read more: https://cdinstitute.eu/2026/02/19/corridor8-economic-forum/

Ministria për Evropën dhe Punët e Jashtme - Republika e Shqipërisë
Agjencia Shtetërore e Programimit Strategjik dhe Koordinimit të Ndihmës
European Union in Albania
European Investment Bank - Western Balkans
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

📌 Oversight of the Reform and Growth Facility is about keeping reforms grounded in reality. Our new paper examines how Albania’s accountability actors can track implementation, identify bottlenecks, and ensure that commitments translate into concrete actions.

📑 The analysis by Prof.Dr. Migena Leskoviku points to progress, but also to gaps in transparency and follow-up. It offers practical recommendations to make monitoring more credible and decisions more evidence-based, so the EU reform agenda delivers tangible and verifiable results. ✅

Read it here 👇

Embassy of Switzerland in Albania

Why do Reform and Growth Facility Oversight and Transparency matter? This paper examines how Albania’s accountability actors can track RGF implementation, identify bottlenecks, and ensure that commitments translate into concrete actions.

You think regional integration is boring paperwork? 📑 Think again. Real change happens when citizens understand, debate, and shape it. 🗣️🤝

Over the past years, civil society has played a growing role in monitoring the Common Regional Market, influencing policy dialogue, and translating technical agreements into tangible public knowledge.

⏱️ From real-time monitoring tools to high-level policy engagement, this journey shows one thing clearly: 𝖢𝗂𝗏𝗂𝗅 𝗌𝗈𝖼𝗂𝖾𝗍𝗒 𝗂𝗌 𝖺 𝗉𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗇𝖾𝗋 𝗂𝗇 𝗋𝖾𝖿𝗈𝗋𝗆.

📌 Discover the impact journey of our initiative “Channelling SEE6 Civil Society Contribution to the Common Regional Market and Berlin Process”, implemented with the support of Auswärtiges Amt: https://cdinstitute.eu/2026/02/02/an-impact-journey-see6-civil-societys-in-the-crm-and-berlin-process/

Ambasada Gjermane Tiranë

An impact journey: SEE6 Civil Coviety's in CRM and Berlin Process Discover the impact journey of our initiative “Channelling SEE6 Civil Society Contribution to the Common Regional Market and Berlin Process”.

📍Brussels | We were at the European Commission Conference “Understanding the Impact of the Recovery and Resilience Facility”, that brought together EU policymakers and researchers assessing the economic, governance, and reform impact of the , as well as outlining implications for the new MFF and future 🇪🇺 EU performance-based instruments.

As implementation progresses, in the , insights from the RRF assessment debate are relevant for strengthening reform ownership, transparency, and results in the enlargement context.

📌 CDI will continue to engage with these discussions to support informed policy dialogue, evidence-based reform monitoring, reform impact beyond formal compliance, governance performance as drivers of results, and how learning across different instruments can strengthen WBs know-how driven .