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malutaj   Vitor Malutaj 
Agropuka, Albania
philippe.monteil@deza.admin.ch
My working situation:
I work as head of the veterinary section in the Department of Agriculture and Food of Puka district. I am too, president of AGROPUKA organization and part-time employed as head of the training and Advise sector of AGROPUKA project.

My challenge for the workshop
Like many other countries in transition Albania is facing a lot of challenges in developing the economy of the country and fighting the poverty and through providing employment for the people, particularly in the rural areas. Actually, we are facing problems of lack of know-how of the rural population to develop their capacities. My challenge is to get experience from others involved in the development of rural areas in order to apply under the conditions of Puka, the relevant, up-to-date and timely qualification of the members and the producers of AP including women as well as men. In this way the challenge contributes to the production of quality products, which are competitive in the market, to proper application of the inputs and to the improvement of income and production. Another challenge will be how to better organize the groups of interest and have a strong and economically sustainable organization.
I would like to share experiences and best practices with experts working in such projects of SDC and other organizations, and the experts within SDC.

My contribution
My contribution for the workshop will consist on the experience I have with and the farmers in a mountainous, remote and poor rural area. The experience is related to the development of their skills in developing themselves and their farms. I would like to give contribution and to profit from the experience of other participants in the organization building and other civil society issues. I am one of the founders of AGROPUKA organization and my contribution will be on how we managed to establish such forms of civil society in a post dictatorial country. My contribution will be mainly focused to organization of Training and Advise of the producers in the rural areas.

My topics of interest
• Livelihood coalitions, in order to have more information about the concept and how to further develop it under the conditions of Puka.
• Training Centre (and outreach). There is some experience in this field due to the support given since 10 years from the experts of SDC and LBL, but I should like to know better how to design, organise, manage and fund the training centre in order to reach the farmer producers with the necessary advice and qualification.
• Capacity and organization development.


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