Albania Threshold Program Monitoring & Evaluation
How MCC Tracks Progress
MCC emphasizes both achieving and measuring results in its threshold programs. During program development and implementation, MCC worked closely with the Government of Albania and with USAID, the threshold program in-country administrator. Both USAID and the Government of Albania contributed to establishing program milestones and refining program indicators for the Albania threshold program.
Final Implementation Reports
USAID provided MCC with a final report based on information provided by implementers and USAID program managers. A brief overview of some highlighted results is also available in the Final Status Report.
Results Reporting Table for Albania Threshold Program
Albania’s threshold program indicators were tracked quarterly by MCC in a Results Reporting Table that reported progress over each quarter compared to the baseline and program targets.
| Performance Indicator | End Result | Baseline | 2007 Q1 |
2007 Q2 |
2007 Q3 |
2007 Q4 |
2008 Q1 |
2008 Q2 |
2008 Q3 |
2008 Q4 |
2009 Q1 |
Notes | |
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| Tax Administration | |||||||||||||
| 1. Tax revenues collected by the Large Taxpayers Office as a percentage of total tax revenues | 50% | 30% | Target | 30% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 50% | 50% | 50% | 50% | These data include VAT revenues only. Source Data from the Albanian General Directorate of Taxation |
| Actual | 40% | 49.3% | 50.7% | 51.2% | 51.4% | 48.8% | 50.2% | 50.2% | 59% | ||||
| 2. Percentage of VAT returns filed electronically by LTO-Tirana taxpayers | 15% | 0% | Target | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 15% | 15% | 15% | 15% | 15% | For the period October to December 2008, total amount of tax collected by GDT = 11,909,640,000 Leke (around $123 Million) and total amount of tax revenue collected by LTO = 2613081341 Leke. |
| Actual | 0% | – | – | – | 15% | 20% | 32.6% | 46.7% | 59.3% | ||||
| 3. Tax Court established | 1 | 0 | Target | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | No longer in the threshold plan. Ministry of Justice has drafted legislation to establish administrative court with tax function through another project. |
| Actual | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 4. Percentage of firms stating bribery is frequent in tax collection | 35% | 42% | Target | 42% | N/A | N/A | N/A | 40% | 37% | 36% | 35% | 35% | The first “actual” figure is from World Bank BEEPS 2005 data and the second “actual” figure is Transparency International Survey as there is no new World Bank BEEPS data. Last “actual” figure is from project’s Business Impact Survey – completed by a local survey firm. Figures are inconclusive |
| Actual | 42% | N/A | N/A | N/A | 26% | N/A | N/A | 18.8% | N/A | ||||
| Actual | N/A | N/A | N/A | 44% | 44% | N/A | N/A | 36% | N/A | ||||
| Public Procurement | |||||||||||||
| 6. Percentage of procurements completed electronically | 2.5% | 0% | Target | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.5% | 98 e-procurements out of 3,854 total e-procurements. |
| Actual | 0% | – | – | – | – | – | 0.2% | 2.1% | 2.5% | ||||
| 7. Percentage of PPA staff trained in IT integration and using e-procurement software | 100% | 0% | Target | 0% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 75% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | |
| Actual | 0% | 32% | 48% | 48% | 60% | – | 80% | 100% | 100% | ||||
| 8. Reduction in the cost of government procurements | -20% | 0% | Target | 0% | 0% | 0% | -5% | -20% | -20% | -20% | -20% | -20% | “Actual” taken from GOA records of amount budgeted for each e- procurement award versus the awarded contract value for each e-procurement award. |
| Actual | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | -15% | -15% | ||||
| 9. Value of gift expected to secure government contract as a percentage of contract value | 2% | 6.15% | Target | 6.15% | 4% | 4% | 4% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 2% | 2% | Baseline is World Bank BEEPS but since no reports have come out since 2005 this quarter’s “actual” is from project’s Business Impact Survey – completed by a local survey firm. Source and Method of computation is in Annex B |
| Actual BEEPS | 6.15% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||
| Actual BIS | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | .82% | .82% | ||||
| Business Registration | |||||||||||||
| 10. Total registration cost as percentage of income per capita | 13% | 31% | Target | 25% | 25% | 25% | 25% | 13% | 13% | 13% | 13% | 13% | Calculated as follows: income per capita = USD 2,980 (source: World Bank Report 2006). Total registration cost (1 Euro – USD 1.40) + other costs for legal documents for registration (USD$162.50). |
| Actual | 31% | N/A | N/A | N/A | 6.0% | – | – | 6.0% | 6.0% | ||||
| 11. Percentage of businesses that paid a bribe to register | 5% | 19% | Target | 15% | 15% | 15% | 15% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | 5% | Baseline data source is World Bank Doing Business Report but since the World Bank did not measure this indicator in the last report the project measured through surveys conducted by local survey firm. |
| Actual | 19% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 0% | 0% | ||||
| 12. Number of days to register a business | 1 | 47 | Target | 47 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Average time it takes to register a business is now <24 hours; can be done in an average of one procedure in one place; the NRC and service windows |
| Actual | 47 | – | – | 3.5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 13. Number of change applications processed by NRC | 5,000 | 0 | Target | 0 | – | – | 1,000 | 1,500 | 2,000 | 3,000 | 5,000 | 8000 | Steady increase in monthly numbers of change applications managed by the NRC |
| Actual | 0 | – | – | 231 | 1,495 | 5,738 | 7,914 | 11,685 | 13,763 | ||||
| 14. Number of new businesses registered at NRC | 9,000 | 0 | Target | 0 | – | – | 500 | 2,650 | 6,650 | 8,000 | 9,000 | 10,000 | This number includes companies as well as self-employed persons |
| Actual | 0 | – | – | 516 | 3,711 | 12,098 | 16,713 | 19,334 | 22,000 | ||||