Restorative Justice and Victim-Offender Mediation Programme for Probationers, May - December 2014

The project has been co-financed by UNICEF and OSCE-Presence in Albania (as part of the OSCE Program for Effective Probation Service in Albania, Phase VI).

The main project component management of cases involving probationers through RJ practices and VOM. In accordance with the Regulation on Cooperation between the Probation Service and NGOs and the Mediation Service, dated 31/07/2009, the General Directorate of
Probation service and their local offices local probation offices cooperated with AFCR for the successful implementation of the project.
Their cooperation consisted in identification of conflict cases involving probationers that could be settled through restorative justice practices and mediation.

During this project implementation, 92 cases were referred by the local probation service offices to the mediation services and were managed through mediation. In 81 cases,there was a positive outcome from the mediation service.

Apart from case management, around 40 new staff of local probation offices were
trained in restorative justice and mediation.