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Albania’s legal framework is relatively liberal in allowing inter-municipal cooperation (IMC). The country’s local government law suggests that any exclusive functions of local government can also be undertaken jointly by multiple local governments to obtain the desired result. Korça Regional Waste Management Company (KRWM) is an IMC entity, founded with public capital owned by the municipalities of Korça region in Albania, and serves around 300,000 inhabitants in the region within six municipalities. KRWM operations, after the country’s territorial and administrative restructuring, reducing the number of local governments from 384 to 61 in 2015, have increased the opportunity to provide necessary financial support and speed up the decision-making process. Several aspects of IMC were facilitated by the recently introduced law on the functioning of local government, recognizing the IMC as a means that municipalities can use for public service delivery.
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Authority transfer is accomplished through an agreement between participating local units, approved by the respective local councils.
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After the 2015 territorial reform, initially it was a joint undertaking of more than 20 smaller local governments (see also the section “Forms of Cooperation and Actors Involved” of this chapter).
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KfW stands for Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau/The German Bank for Development.
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Korça was the first city in the country to provide 24-hour drinking water to the inhabitants, through financing and cooperation with KfW.
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This conclusion is based on qualitative interviews conducted with representatives of amalgamated local governments. The issue of accountability and representation of interests of small communities is frequently raised as an important issue.
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Wilson, A.D. (2018). Korça Waste Management and the Territorial Reform in Albania. In: Teles, F., Swianiewicz, P. (eds) Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Europe. Governance and Public Management. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62819-6_17
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