This programme is co-funded by the European Union and UNDP Albania and Implemented by UNDP in partnership with the Government of Albania.
Purpose:
To serve as a basis for presentation to and discussion at the technical meeting of the expert working groups on 11th March: to do this it tries to indicate and evaluate the importance of disparities at different territorial levels according to different indicators
To challenge and guide the further work on the detailed analysis of regional disparities; to do this it tries to formulate relatively short and concise statements on the main findings, possible explanation of cause‐end relationships, policy implications etc.

The purpose of this paper is twofold:
•To serve as a basis for presentation to and discussion at the technical meeting of the expert working groups on 11th March: to do this it tries to indicate and evaluate the importance of disparities at different territorial levels according to different indicators
•To challenge and guide the further work on the detailed analysis of regional disparities; to do this it tries to formulate relatively short and concise statements on the main findings, possible explanation of cause‐end relationships, policy implications etc.
The paper is based on all data provided by 5th March as well as the (initial) analyses carried out by the local team. It should be noted that not all the data desired were available at the moment and not all of the data were analyzed.