The Millennium Challenge Corporation Threshold Country Program II (MCCA2)’s territorial planning reform activities include the extension of support to five selected municipalities in the form of Information Technology (IT) solutions to critical development issues in 2009 and 2010.  The purpose is to improve transparency, and thereby help prepare Albania for a Compact with the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation.

The objectives of the pilot programs in the selected municipalities are twofold:  First, to integrate municipal planning information electronically into the National Register, as mandated in the new Territorial Planning Law.  And second, to help the pilot municipalities to introduce more transparency into their territorial planning and construction permitting procedures and decisions.