The second meeting of the Steering committee of the project "Dashboard Western Balkans: Towards a better evaluation of the results of judiciary reform efforts in the Western Balkans" took place on 16 October 2020 via videoconference. It brought together representatives of the European Commission and the CEPEJ dashboard correspondents who are responsible of the data collection in the beneficiaries of this Programme (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia). Representatives of the World Bank participated as well to present the state of play of their regional justice survey and discuss potential areas of cooperation with the “Dashboard Western Balkans”.
The Steering Committee assessed the results of the first cycle of data collection and the plan of forthcoming capacity building activities. The documents for the second round of data collection have also be presented.
This activity has been organised as part of the second phase of the "Horizontal Facility for the Western Balkans and Turkey" programme, co-financed by the European Union and the Council of Europe and implemented by the Council of Europe.
* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence.