This report represents a significant milestone in enhancing Albania’s approach to combating radicalization and violent extremism. From policy perspective it provides evidence-based insights to strengthen Local Public Safety Councils as key local mechanisms for preventing violent extremism through coordinated, multi-sectorial approaches. By highlighting best practices and gaps, it supports the development of policies that promote sustainable, inclusive, and internationally aligned models of local security governance and case management system.
The assessment examine their operational effectiveness, institutional coordination, and governance practices. It aims to identifying key legal, structural, and procedural gaps, and proposing evidence-based recommendations. By assessing the LPSCs in the five supported municipalities, the report seeks to make recommendations for future capacity building and support to the LPSCs operating in other municipalitiesto enhance their functionality, accountability, and impact at the local level.
This document was drafted as part of the project “Supporting Local Safety and Security Actors/Services in Performing Their Roles in the National P/CVE Referral System in Albania.” This initiative is being implemented by the ASSIST Centre in collaboration with the Institute for Activism and Social Change, under the coordination of the National Coordination Centre on Countering Violent Extremism. The project is funded by HEDAYAH – the International Centre of Excellence for Countering Extremism and Violent Extremism – and the European Union through the second phase of the STRIVE Global Program (Strengthening Resilience to Violent Extremism).