Advance Social and Labor Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities

Albanian Disability Rights Foundation & National Agency for Employment and
Skills(NAES) together with the Municipality of Tirana are implementing the
project” Advance Social and Labour Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities”, that will
be run for 26 months through the financial support of the European Union in
Albania. The project aims to strengthen capacity at national, regional and municipal
levels to effectively support access of citizens with disabilities in inclusive social and
labour programmes and services. This will be achieved through building a strategic
and operational partnership between municipalities, public and non-public agencies
to learn, advance and embed an innovative practice of supported employment
service, contributing to social and labour inclusion for persons with disabilities.
Through project interventions, necessary mechanisms, infrastructure, material and
human resources will be created/strengthened and adopted by municipality of
Tirana, NAES and its regional and local offices and ADRF, to improve the PES
(Public Employment Service) to serve persons with disabilities and to embed in the
system the innovative practice of Supported Employment Service for persons with
disability, through transferred experience/expertise of ADRF; The innovative
practice of Supported Employment for Persons with Disabilities piloted by ADRF
will benefit round 180 job seeking persons with disabilities; Standards of the service
will be adopted and supportive public and private nets and mechanisms effectively
used to ensure its effectiveness and sustainability; A communication platform,
including an e-platform will be created to share and transfer the experience built in
Tirana, on the design, management, governance, funding, and delivery of the
innovative practice of specialized supported employment service for persons with
disabilities, in three other targeted municipalities, Elbasan, Durres, Shkodra, but also
national wide, to ensure scaling up, replication and sustainability. A local network of
supported employment service for persons with disabilities will be created and
strengthened, as a mechanism for policy dialogue and practice learning and further
developments in the social and employment service sector.