Albania commits to: 0 GBV including harmful pracices, 0 unmet need for FP, 0 maternal deaths.

1, We commit to increase financing for reproductive, maternal, newborn and adolescent health by increasing budget allocation by 30% by 2025 through Gender Resource Budgeting;
2. To intensify efforts to achieve universal access to sexual and reproductive health as a part of universal health coverage by strengthening national cervical cancer screening programme and establishing breast cancer screening by 2020;
3. We commit to strengthen multi-sectoral response to GBV and GBV Referral Mechanism and make it functional in all 61 municipalities of Albania by 2022;
4. Increase the budget for social services through GRB initiative, and especially the domestic and gender based violence survivors by 25 percent by 2025;
5. To develop and endorse the Law on Gender-based Violence by 2021;
6. We commit to implement the National Action Plan for Elderly 2020-2025, by allocating respective budget and monitoring its implementation step by step and make the necessary legal provisions by 2023.
7. We commit to improve quality of youth friendly services within the basic package of primary health care, through dissemination of standards, guidelines and protocols, capacity building of providers and reaching out young people with information to increase demand for these services by 2025;
8. We commit to approve the Youth Law by 2020; to scale up and implement comprehensive sexuality education nationally by 2022.

Modes of engagement:

• Budgetary and financial
  Albania commits to increase financing for reproductive, maternal, newborn and adolescent health by increasing budget allocation by 30% by 2025; Increase the budget for social services through GRB, especially for DV /GBVsurvivors by 25%, by 2025.
• Change or creation of legislation
  Albania commits to develop and endorse the Law on Gender-based Violence by 2021; Approve the Law on Youth by 2020; Approve the revised Law on SRH by 2020; Make changes to the legal age of marriage be at least 18 by 2021;
• Policy and guidance
  We commit to a well functioning of the National RH Committee and sub-committee on Contraceptive Security to ensure zero unmet need for FP by 2030; to implement the NAP on Ageing 2020-2025, by allocating respective budget and monitoring step by step.
• Programmatic action
  Albania to strengthen national cervical screening programme, and establish the national screening programme for breast cancer by 2020; Establish national obstetric surveillance and response system by 2020; strengthen MSRto GBV by 2022; improve YFS