Within the project “Environmental policy effective against climate change”, implemented by the organization Center for Bridging Communities, several meetings were held with local businesses and farmers in the rural areas of the District of Tirana, in the Municipality of Tirana, Vora, Kamza, Kavaja and Rrogozhina. These meetings aim to assess the impact of climate change on local businesses and farmers, informing and raising awareness of the community, businesses and farmers on the measures they should take to adapt to climate change, as well as empowering their voice to influence decision-making.

Questionnaires were also carried out, as an element which serves to assess the level of knowledge the community has about the law, about the needs and difficulties encountered by climate change, about its importance, procedures, obligations and the opportunity that the community has to influence policy-making and the steps that the project is taking for advocacy.

 This project is implemented by Center for Bridging Communities and is supported by the project ‘Dialogue for the development of comprehensive policies in Albania -ideAL’, the project implemented by Co-PLAN, the Institute for Habitat Development and the European Policy Center (EPC, Belgium) with the financial support of the European Union.