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1.
General
Introduction to the Workshop
As part of the “Ex-post Impact Study Environment in Southeast Europe 2007 – 2013”, a workshop was
held according to the participatory methodology MAPP (Method for Impact Assessment of Programs
and Projects) which was developed by the GDI/ DIE (German Development Institute). The workshop
took place in Shkodra/ Albania on July 15, 2015. All participants (8 female and 18 male) are living in
Shkodra town and have thus been beneficiaries of a water and sanitation project financed by ADA and
other donors from 2005 until 2015. They live in different neighbourhoods of Shkodra, some of them in
very modest circumstances. Representatives of area teachers, the business community, the water
utility and of other public institutions participated in the workshop.
Unfortunately, the time for the workshop was very limited, which did not allow for going into detail
about some very lively discussions that came up. But the Albanian moderator managed well to go
through all the planned tools, which finally provided a very interesting insight into the water topic for
the evaluators, as seen from the beneficiaries’ perspective.
The objective of the MAPP-workhop was to analyse the impact of the project. Group discussions and a
logical sequence of tools for data collection and interpretation were applied (see Chapter Three). First,
development trends and changes were analysed, which in a next step were attributed to specific inter-
ventions/activities/projects. This context-oriented approach allowed for discovering all positive, nega-
tive, and surprising trends and impacts. The project we were specifically interested in was “evaluat-
ed” in relation to other on-going projects and programmes. In this way, the net impact of the project
could be estimated against the background of gross development trends. The methodology MAPP
helps to bridge systematically the “attribution gap” between impact and cause by applying an influ-
ence matrix. In this case, positive or negative influences were evaluated against criteria for develop-
ment that were defined by the workshop participants themselves.
2.
Information regarding
the Project
The project is implemented by KfW (of Germany) together with ADA and SECO of Switzerland. The
overall objective is the supply of a hygienically safe and sustainable water supply and wastewater
system for the city of Shkodra. The work is divided into 3 components:
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Component A: Preparation of detailed design and Tender documents
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Component B: Construction & construction supervision
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Component C: Institutional Development of the Shkodra utility UKS
3.
Summary of Results along the MAPP Instruments
3.1 Life Curve
The target group and the moderator have drawn a curve that shows the overall development trends in
Shkodra beginning in the year 2005 and ending in the present.
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Legend:
1 = very
low quality
2 = low quality
3 = average quality
4 =
high quality
5 = very high quality
Explanation of the MAPP - workshop participants
Before 2005 we had a status quo.
2005 – 2009: After a government change in 2005, a lot of improvements occurred: Economic
improvements, power supply, employment, investments, good governance, lower level of corruption.
2010 – 2014: Stable but decreasing a little bit until 2012. The year 2014 marked the end of the second
mandate of the same government.
2012 – 2013: A sharp drop due to the bad economic situation (single opinion).
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2013 – 2015: Taxes increased, prices increased, more migration to other countries, increased
unemployment. We are better off than in 2005 because the services have improved, although
unemployment is high.
People in Shkodra are very politicized and tend to judge their lifeline (quality of life) in government
terms rather than in terms of different years.
3.2 Criteria for Development and Trend Analysis
Firstly, the indicators/ criteria for development were defined along the following key dimensions:
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(i)
Livelihood/ economic conditions,
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(ii)
Access
to basic services,
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(iii)
Access to knowledge,
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(iv)
Access to rights/ participation
Criteria
Sub-criteria
Livelihood/ economic conditions
Employment
Self-employment
Trade and investments/ agriculture/ tourism
Access
to basic services
Water
Energy
Public order/ security
Health
Access to knowledge
Education
Technology
Vocational training
Access to rights/ participation
Involvement
in decision making
Environment
3.3 Trend Analysis
With a matrix, detailed development trends were evaluated over the same time period. In this way, a
profile of Shkodra could be drawn on a five-level evaluation scale, showing how some elements of the
quality of life have changed in recent years before and during the project cycle. The trend analysis
revealed the “gross impact” for all social criteria. The various causes of changes and trends were
described.