Our impact

Impact by the numbers

Projects delivered since 2018
27
Mobilised for civic work in northern Albania
€442,480
Electoral cycles observed and documented
3
Donors and partners
21

Outcomes

What has actually changed

Not activities or outputs — documented results where our work changed a decision, a policy, or an institution.

  • Documented result

    Landmark IDP ruling

    A court ruling recognised the rights of internally displaced persons, secured through H.A.N.A.'s documentation, legal advocacy and sustained public pressure on the case.

  • Documented result

    ZVAP working group established

    A permanent local working group (ZVAP) was created, giving young people a formal, ongoing channel to raise issues directly with municipal institutions.

  • Documented result

    Three-cycle electoral observation

    Independent, youth-led observation across three consecutive electoral cycles produced public reports that fed into how local elections are scrutinised.

  • Documented result

    Municipal plastic management engagement

    Youth-led advocacy moved the municipality to commit to concrete action on plastic and waste management, turning a local campaign into a policy conversation.

All projects

Explore our work

Twenty-seven projects since 2018, funded by 21 donors and partners, across democracy, media literacy, the environment and youth participation in northern Albania.

  • Democracy & Elections

    THRIVE

    (Transforming and Harnessing Resources to Inspire and Empower Youth)

    Funded by Embassy of Netherlands · €105,000

    2023–2025

In depth

Featured case studies

Four projects, followed from the first public record to a documented institutional result.

  • Kot

    Legal advocacy

    A ruling that forced an answer

    When Lezhë's institutions refused to disclose school-condition records, H.A.N.A. filed a formal freedom-of-information request. After months of pressure, the Commissioner ruled in H.A.N.A.'s favour — one of the first documented cases of a northern-Albanian civil society organisation triggering a binding institutional response.

  • Studenta

    Electoral observation

    Watching three election cycles, station by station

    Across the 2019, 2021 and 2023 votes, H.A.N.A. deployed trained youth observers to more than forty polling stations. The programme documented irregularities in real time, filed formal complaints, and published station-level findings that fed directly into national observation reports.

  • Environment

    From dumped plastic to a public contract

    H.A.N.A. mapped illegal dumping along the Drin river and pressed the municipality to disclose its waste-management contracts. Sustained, evidence-based advocacy moved a hidden arrangement into the open and put the city's plastic problem onto the council agenda.

  • Youth media

    The newsroom that named what others wouldn't

    H.A.N.A.'s youth newsroom investigated a local story mainstream outlets avoided, combining public records with on-the-ground reporting. The published investigation reached thousands and set the standard for the centre's evidence-first journalism.