About EWPPP

The East-West Parliamentary Practice Project (EWPPP), headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan nongovernmental organization founded in 1990 as a joint initiative of the European Cultural Foundation (NL) and the Ford Foundation (US) with the aim of providing support for parliaments in the newly emerging democracies in Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

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Tirana, 5-7 July 1993
Albanian workshop: Parliamentary Practice

Durres, 27-30 September 2001
Albanian-Dutch parliamentary workshop: Parties in Parliament

Tirana, 22 February 2002
Feedback Meeting between Albanian MPs and NGO representatives

Tirana, 25 October 2002
Roundtable Debate on the cooperation between Parliament and civil society in the legislative process

Tirana, 18 December 2004
Parliament/Civil Society Team Meeting, Legislatures and Citizens

Tirana, 9-11 July 2004
Regional Meeting: Legislatures and Citizens

Tirana, 5-7 May 2004
Public Forum “The culture of dialogue and the role of the opposition”

Tirana, 24 March 2005
Parliament/Civil Society Team Meeting

Tirana, 12-16 May 2005
Trilateral Exchange Visit of members of Parliament and NGO representatives from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia

Tirana, 19 September 2005
NGO/Parliament Team meeting, Legislatures and Citizens

Tirana, 18-22 October 2006 
Trilateral Exchange and Regional Roundtable, Regional Cooperation in the Euro-Atlantic Integration Process

Tirana, NGO Platform meeting, 25 November 2009

The role of parliament in the pre-accession process: measuring progress and building capacity

Tirana, 3-6 May 2010

Consultative visit

Tirana, 9 May 2010

Public awareness campaign: Implementation of EU standards – a national challenge

Tirana, 3-6 June 2010

Training/roundtable on EU Policy Making in the Field of Justice and Home Affairs

Tirana, 6-7 December 2010

Visit of Latvian Members of Parliament to the Parliament of Albania

Tirana, 26 April 2011

NGO Platform meeting: The role of parliament in the pre-accession process: measuring progress and building capacity

Tirana, 29 April 2011

NGO Platform meeting: The role of parliament in the pre-accession process: measuring progress and building capacity

Tirana, 15-18 November 2011

Program assessment visit

Tirana, 11-14 April 2012

Consultative visit and NGO Platform meeting

Tirana, 8-9 May 2012

NGO Platform meeting and Europe Day celebration activity

Tirana, 8-12 July 2012

Training/roundtable, Consultative visit: The role of parliament in the pre-accession process: measuring progress and building capacity

Tirana, 29 October-3 November 2012

Training/roundtable Tirana: The role of parliament in the pre-accession process: measuring progress and building capacity

Tirana, 27-30 November 2012

Training/roundtable: The role of parliament in the pre-accession process: measuring progress and building capacity

2015 onwards

The EWPPP and its sister organization the WBDI (Western Balkans Democracy Initiation) are developing a project in cooperation with a Swiss partner, to establish a center for diplomacy and development studies in Tirana, Albania, with the participation of surrounding Western Balkan countries.