Support to Consolidation of Justice Reform in Albania - EU4Justice II

EPM is part of the consortium led by WEglobal that has been shortlisted for EU4Justice II, the European Commission’s EUR 13 million technical assistance contract supporting the consolidation of Albania’s justice reform. The contract (EC-ENEST/TIA/2026/EA-RP/0043) continues the work of EU4Justice I (2023-2026) under IPA 2025, and is due to start in April 2027 for a period of 48 months.

The action supports the institutions that govern and operate Albania’s justice system - the Ministry of Justice, the High Judicial Council, the High Prosecutorial Council, the High Justice Inspector, the High Court and Constitutional Court, the School of Magistrates and the Faculty of Law - in meeting the requirements of the EU accession process, particularly Chapter 23 and its interim benchmarks, and in implementing the Cross-Sector Justice Strategy 2024-2030 and the Rule of Law Roadmap.

The project is organised in four components, each led by a key expert:

• Component 1 - Justice governance and policy coordination: institutional management and human resource planning, legal drafting and EU acquis approximation, and unified collection and analysis of judicial statistics
• Component 2 - Efficiency and access to justice: reducing case backlog under the judicial efficiency roadmap, strengthening court management and court councils, and expanding mediation and access to justice
• Component 3 - Quality of justice: curricula and training for the School of Magistrates, Faculty of Law and School of Advocates, and support to judicial reasoning at the High Court and Constitutional Court
• Component 4 - Accountability and integrity: inspection methods and human resources for the High Justice Inspector, and consolidation of vetting standards across the judiciary

EPM is recruiting the four key experts for this contract. See our open positions for the roles and requirements.