Albania Field Visit

A delegation of six parliamentarians from Burundi, France, Greece and United Kingdom, visited Albania from November 17 to November 20, 2003. 

The delegation met with Ylli Bufi, Albanian Minister of Finance; Servet Pellumbi, speaker of the Parliament; NGO leaders; the World Bank country director and other World Bank staff. The group had also the opportunity to participate in a conference on the Albanian National Strategy for Social and Economic Development.

The PNoWB members visited the Durres Port Project, the Irrigation and Drainage Project in Kavaya and the Forestry and Microcredit projects in Petrola, as part of their field trip to assess the World Bank activities which fell under the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper.