Albania

This review of the water sector in Albania was prepared as a background paper to the World Bank’s Country Partnership Strategy for Albania for 2011–2014. This review draws on past analytical work on decentralization in Albania as well as relevant World Bank-financed operations such as the Water Sector Investment Project.

Water and Wastewater Services in the Danube Region - A state of the sector

This regional state of the sector review and makes an overall assessment of the state of the sector in 16 countries in the Danube region along different dimensions - namely the context for services, the organization of services, access to services, performance of services and the financing of services.

The National Water Supply and Sewerage Master Plan for Albania is a tool which enables the Albanian Government to define a national investment plan. It is based on a sector analysis and takes national strategies and policies into consideration. Within this tool, the elaboration of a priority ranking for the defined projects supports a sustainable use of investment means in line with sector considerations and development policies (de-politicisation). Based on priorities, a ranking in short-, mid- and long-term investment (investment plan) is defined by taking into account both national and foreign investments in both sectors.

Report on the Performance of the Water Supply and Sewerage companies in Albania.

The 2012 Performance Report presents the results of a comprehensive performance assessment for 57 water supply and sewerage utilities on the basis of a set of 10 Key Performance Indicators, selected by the National Regulatory Commission in 2010. Taking into account the need for financial sustainability in this sector, the selected KPI focus on the assessment of management and financial capacities, as well as on those directions of performance of WSS utilities, the effect of which are directly felt by consumers. 

Water and Wastewater Services in the Danube Region - A state of the sector

This note is part of a regional state of the sector review and makes an overall assessment of the state of the sector along different dimensions - namely the context for services, the organization of services, access to services, performance of services and the financing of services.

Project fact sheet of the program for technical support to the water supply and sewerage sector of Albania (WASSP), which ran from March 2013 to August 2015 and was implemented by the Austrian Development Cooperation, with financing from the government of Austria and the European Commission.

Project fact sheet of the program for technical support to the water supply and sewerage sector of Albania (WASSP), which ran from March 2013 to August 2015 and was implemented by the Austrian Development Cooperation, with financing from the government of Austria and the European Commission.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of water supply and sewerage sector in Albania. The study focuses on the current situation of water supply and sewerage companies for the entire year 2011, as well an analysis of factors creating premises for achieving efficiency benefits. For the purposes of this study an analysis of three performance indicators that have a serious impact on the financial sustainability of a typical water and sewerage company is carried out using the data from the Performance Monitoring and Benchmarking Program for all water companies in Albania. The data are calculated based on weighted average basis for groupings of water companies/utilities using the “population served” by the company as the basis of “scale”. The main result of the analysis is that the potential for economies of scale can exist in the case of Albania since 74% of water supply and sewerage companies serve a number of populations of less than 50,000 inhabitants. The result of the analysis shows that an increase in served population will normally be related to an increased population density, which also direclty contributes to achieving economies of scale and getting above a served population of 100,000 people are where economies of scale can start to make a real difference. In order to achieve this efficiency, the aggregation of companies and creation of regions may be the solution for this efficiency to be realized.