Workshop Albania

Three workshops. The workshops to be undertaken with relevant stakeholders per country, focused on realizing concrete legal reform. The focus of these events will be the UN CRPD and General Comment 1 on Article 12, Article 19 by the CRPD Committee and the need for harmonizing national legislation in the area of legal capacity to the CRPD. Participants in the workshops will be from different groups such as: Self-advocacy groups of persons with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities Representatives of DPOs and parents’ associations Human rights organizations Law professionals (judges, representatives from law schools, etc.) Service providers and centers for social work The composition of the participating stakeholders is not absolute or exhaustive. The partners will assess accordingly which of the partners are more valuable for the project purposes. The outputs of these workshops will be the collection of inputs and opinions by the relevant stakeholders about the prospective changes of the law, including, where relevant, piloting models of supported decision-making and alliance-building among CSOs and policy makers, human rights advocates, professional groups and academics.