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On
the progress with the Action Plan of the
Albanian Training Center[1]
 On 21-23 November 2007, AHC
organized a workshop on the progress with
drafting the Albanian Training Center of
Prisons’ (TCP) Action Plan for 2008-2010. Taken
into account the crucial moment the TCP is, with
the aim to transform it from the nowadays sector
to a contemporary center, this workshop had as
its final goal to assist the Albanian working
group to improve and fine tune the first draft
of the Action Plan of the TCP. This workshop was
continuing on the assignments left from the
assessment mission done in September regarding
the transformation process of the TCP. The
Albanian working group was made of the training
sector specialists, governors with experience in
training and high and middle management
representatives of the GDP.
 The Albanian working group
was assisted in this process by experienced
international experts in this area such as Mrs.
Vesna Babic, Head of Treatment Department at the
Croatian General Directorate of Prisons, Mr.
Frank Borst, Deputy Director of the Netherlands
Training Center of Prisons and Mr. Jan van den
Brand, General Governor of Dutch prisons. Mrs.
Edlira Papavangjeli, Program’s Manager moderated
this workshop.
The Albanian working group
was presented in depth with the training system
and especially with how the training center of
prisons is organized, what kind of curricula
they provide to which target groups, different
training modules and training resources of these
centers in Croatia, the Netherlands and Austria.
These models were used as reference points for
the Albanian working group to detail further the
Action Plan of the Albanian TCP.
 The workshop focused totally
on drafting further the Action Plan by putting
the activities and services in time frame at
least for the first two coming years. Therefore
during year 2008, TCP will implement a training
curricula of 22 training days to the newly
recruited uniform staff which be based on new
basic training curricula with the possibility to
combine practice near the penal institutions
under the supervisions of mentors. This pilot
year will also focus on drafting guiding manuals
for the trainers to develop subjects of this
module as well as a complete module for the
basic training for the newly recruited staff.
Time will also be given to the analysis of the
human resources of the training sector with
possibilities to restructure the center in terms
of human and financial resources. In addition
the needs for training of the trainers of the
TCP will be identified and types of courses for
them will be planned to be realized during the
following year. In cases of a flux of newly
recruited staff, working group saw with interest
the alternative of an introductory one week
course and then followed by a basic 22 days
training. Selection and training of mentors
should be also part of the TCP first working
year. During year 2009 in addition to the basic
training, other modules will be designed for
short training courses targeting civil staff in
the penitentiary institutions and implementation
of these modules will be realized during this
year as well.
The working group also
drafted the structure with specific groups of
subjects of the basic training module for the
newly recruited staff in the penitentiary
institutions[2].
The next assignment of this
working group will be to finalize the Action
Plan having in mind the work done in this
workshop, second the working group will continue
the work to write guiding modules for the TCP
trainers in their process in drafting the basic
training module.
[1]
This activity is implemented in the
framework of the program “Managing
prisons in the humane way”, CARDS 2004
financed by E.C. delegation in Tirana.
[2]
It will be sent to the GDP and the
Albanian working group for the TCP
Action Plan.
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