Integrated Cross-Sectorial Plan of Tirana-Durres Area

3.2 Strategic objectives
Within the context of reaching the agreed
vision, four key strategic objectives have
been defined. Each of the strategic objectives
is elaborated in the subsequent chapter
through the relevant policies that will guide
the implementation process of the Integrated
Cross-Sectorial Plan of the economic area
Tirana-Durres.
SO1. Sustainable economic
development
The metropolitan region of Tirana-Durres is
the economic centre of Albania. It will continue
to be the economic engine of the country
and will turn into a competitive region within
the Western Balkans. The region will turn
into a space which supports the principles of
global economic competition, the creation of
economic clusters, based on the principles
of metabolism, whereby the production and
further development is carried out under the
paradigm of a closed cycle, where the wastes
of one process are used as a raw material for
another process. The Tirana-Durres region
will transform into a space that will support
creative businesses and industries, which will
enable the technological hop of this region in
the future.
Target for 2030:
1. increasing the GDP in the region by 10%;
2. reducing youth unemployment by 5%;
3. reducing overall unemployment by 8%;
4. increasing investments in technology by
10%;
5. establishing 4 specialized economic
clusters;
6. launching 4 economic development
incubators.
SO2. Improve the quality of life in
urban and rural centres
The chaotic development of the last decades
associated with informal development provides
a complicated urban overview. Considering
the high concentration of urban areas in the
region, this objective aims at improving the
quality of life and environment for residents
in the Tirana-Durres area, attracting talents
and foreign companies, in addition to domestic
ones. Improving the environment through
projects of regeneration, densification and
integration will be a good opportunity to
provide models of sustainable communities,
will increase the attraction of human capital
at the international level, will reduce the
ecological footprint and will promote the
construction industry, which is currently
struggling.
Target for 2030:
1. improving energy efficiency in the existing
house stock by 50%;
2. increasing the social housing stock by 30%;
3. improving infrastructure and integrating
informal areas to a level of 80%;
4. regenerating urban poles at 50% of the
territory;
5. regenerating the rural centres by 50%;
6. regenerating the agricultural irrigation
infrastructure by 80%;
7. developing the 5 regional centres for the
trading of agricultural products.
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