This Guidance Notes series provides succinct information on the key gender issues in selected policy areas, and to show how gender mainstreaming can be done in practical terms. This set of tools is made available through the EU’s and UN Women’s technical support to the Government of Albania in the context of accelerating the process of EU integration.

The Supreme State Audit Institution in Albania has conducted a performance audit on the “Economic Empowerment of Women”, in the framework of the “Transformative Financing for Gender Equality Towards More Transparent, Inclusive and Accountable Governance in the Western Balkans” project, financed by the Government of Sweden – SIDA, with the technical support of UN Women Albania.

In the framework of the Gender Sensitive post-earthquake Recovery and Reconstruction project, UN Women conducted 10 Gender Sensitive Value Chain Analysis (GSVCA) in the earthquake-affected municipalities of Shijak, Durrës, Krujë, Tiranë, Kavajë, Vorë, Rrogozhinë, Kurbin, Mirditë and Lezhë. These GSVCAs identify and promote ‘win-win’ scenarios that guarantee market sustainability, and provide development opportunities that address problems in a value chain in conjunction with addressing gender inequalities inherent in and along the chain.