To mark the 10th anniversary of the National Mediation Chamber of Albania, a workshop focusing on the development of mediation in Albania was organized by the CEPEJ on 30 June 2023 in Tirana, in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice of Albania and the National Chamber of Mediation.
Mediators, lawyers, magistrates as well as justice institutions involved in mediation were presented with the CEPEJ Toolkit on mediation and good practices from European countries in this field. The participants also had the opportunity to discuss the challenges and expectations of mediation, and notably a currently developing mediator profession in Albania.
The Deputy Minister of justice, Mr Klajdi Karameta, and the Head of the National Mediation Chamber, Ms Drita Avdyli, both emphasised the importance of mediation as a tool to increase the efficiency of courts in the view of the ongoing judicial reform and newly established judicial map.
The activity was organized by the action Strengthening the Quality and Efficiency of Justice in Albania (SEJ IV) in the framework of the European Union/Council of Europe joint programme Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Türkiye (Horizontal Facility III), co-funded by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe.