Fatbardh Kadilli

Adviser to the Prime Minister
Albania
Focus Area(s)
Civil Service
Critical Tasks
Computerization of records
Performance management system
Interviewers
Jona Repishti
Country of Reform
Albania
Town/City
Tirana
Country
Albania
Date of Interview
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Abstract

Fatbardh Kadilli, adviser to Albania's prime minister on anti-corruption policies, presents his views on the efforts to reform public administration. He says that the country adopted Western models for reform legislation and implementation, but that breaking old habits acquired under the former communist system was difficult. He believes that protecting civil servants from arbitrary firing impeded efforts to modernize the government because so many administrators were still in positions where they could not perform. He describes the difficulties of trying to institute a successful performance management system because Albania had few leaders who understand management. He reports on initiatives to downsize and consolidate ministries and to install Internet-based systems to reduce corruption in procurement, licensing and a number of other public services.

Full Interview

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Fatbardh Kadilli - Full Interview
Profile

At the time of this interview, Fatbardh Kadilli was adviser to the prime minister on anti-corruption matters, a position he had held since 2005.  Prior to that he served for four years as a consultant on anti-corruption with an American firm financed by the U.S. Agency for International Development. Prior to that he led a program on integrated services for children at UNICEF. From 1998 to 2005, he was also a consultant with the Institute for Contemporary Studies, where, among other tasks, he advised the government on decentralization reforms. Earlier, he served in the State Secretariat for Local Governance, where he was in charge of the Refugee Office and drafted the law on asylum seekers.

Keywords
training
recruitment
Reform sequencing
privatization
performance management
patronage
one-stop-shops
merit pay
merit selection
Job descriptions
downsizing
Donor Relations
de-politicization
decentralization
computerization
civil service commission
capacity building
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