Capacity for Water Quality Management in Albania

Water Quality Monitoring (WQM) is key for fulfilling the requirements for the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive. There is a lack of professional capacity related to all aspect of water quality monitoring in Albania. Additionally, the institutional collaboration/cooperation is poor, especially in related to WQM aspects including sampling, lab capacities, data availability and data processing. The overall objective of Cap4WQM is to support Albania to develop sufficient capacity to fulfil the requirements related to water quality monitoring in the framework of river basin management plans as required to implement the EU WFD. Project purpose / Outcomes 1. Country-specific WQM guidelines for Albania support the monitoring according to the RBMPs 2. Country-specific WQM capacity building concept guarantees that WQM experts for implementing RBMPs are available 3. Technical support during tendering, purchase and installation of monitoring equipment 4. Set of Trainings delivered to local trainers for WQM available for training future WQM Experts in Albania 5. Set of trainings delivered to local WQM Experts to enable Albanian institutions to fulfil the requirements for developing, preparing and implementing RBMPsWQM experts enable Albania to fulfil the requirements for RBMPs implementation