Title of the Project: Direct Grant "Support for the Implementation of Population and Housing Census 2020 activities in Albania".
Financed by: European Union, IPA II
Implementation period: 11.12.2018 - 10.12.2022
Beneficiary: INSTAT
Implementing Agency: INSTAT
Contracting Authority: CFCU
Total contribution: 16.454.795 euro
EU contribution: 4.8 million euro
The overall objective of the Population and Housing Census 2020 (PHC 2020) is to provide the government, other stakeholders and the public with relevant statistical information on the social and demographical structure of the population in Albania and will also contribute to the creation of a building and dwelling register and of resident population register, which will be the source of annual population and housing statistics in the future.
The specific objective of the grant are to:
- Support the Census management and organization providing expertise and capacity building for the implementation of the Census activities; staff requirements in headquarter and regional offices, including payment for fieldwork staff for the pre-testing and pilot Census, supervisors and IT staff for the fieldwork and staff for attending training for PES activities.
- Support Census communication activities and publicity campaign by providing external expertise and services.
- Support the development of systems for data collection, monitoring and the implementation of Census activities.
- Support the development of applications for data processing and dissemination.
- Support the development of systems for data collection, monitoring and the implementation of mapping and geospatial activities.
- Support printing books (design, main results and thematic analysis) and translation of the Census publication.
