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Municipalities remain in a state of "lockdown", 42 of them do not even perform half of their duties!

2026-08-28 13:34:09Politikë SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Municipalities remain in a state of "lockdown", 42 of them do not even
Municipal Functionality Index

The municipalities of the Kukes Region have the lowest level of coverage of functions in the country, while the data show a deep gap between local units in the ability to finance and exercise the responsibilities assigned to them by law.

Nationally, 42 out of 61 municipalities fail to finance even half of the measurable functions.

According to the Municipal Functionality Index (MFI) data, included in the Final Report on the Administrative-Territorial Reform 2.0 of the majority, the Kukes region records the lowest average level of functional coverage, with only 39.2%.

In the same lower part of the ranking are the regions of Vlora and Gjirokastra, with 39.9% each, while Elbasan reaches 46.2%.

At the other end, the highest coverage of functions is in the Lezha region, with 56.9%, followed by Durrës with 53.9%. Dibra and Shkodra have an average level of 50%.

The weaknesses of the Kukes region are also reflected in the individual municipal scores. The municipality of Kukes receives only 37.3 points out of 100 on the Functionality Index, while Tropoja ranks with 36.5 points. These results position both units among the municipalities with the weakest financial and administrative capacities in the country.

At the national level, the differences between municipalities are significant. Kamza ranks first with 100 points out of 100, followed by Tirana with 99.4 points, Himara with 90.9 points and Durrës with 87.2 points.

The group of municipalities with the highest scores also includes Lezha with 79.8 points, Shijaku with 79.6, Shkodra with 77.1, Vlora with 74.2, Saranda with 73.6 and Patos with 71.7 points. Gjirokastra and Korça also stand above the 70 point level, with 70.3 and 70.2 points, respectively.

At the bottom of the ranking is Pusteci, with 0 points, while Rrogozhina receives only 8.3 points. Konispoli with 30.7 points, Tepelena with 32.6, Fushë-Arrëzi with 34.2 and Memaliaj with 36.4 points also have low results.

The data shows that population size or economic weight does not automatically guarantee higher functionality. Kavaja, for example, receives 46.7 points, Dibra 48.6, Pogradec 49.3 and Maliqi 49.7 points. Even Fier, one of the largest municipalities in the country, only reaches 55.4 points.

42 municipalities do not finance even half of their functions

The problem is broader than the results of a few individual units. According to the report, 42 out of 61 municipalities cover less than half of the measurable functions, while only five municipalities manage to finance and exercise at least 24 functions.

This shows that the existence of a budget and a local administration does not necessarily mean that the municipality has the necessary resources to fulfill all the responsibilities assigned to it by law.

The Municipal Functionality Index is built on a scale from 0 to 100 and aims to assess whether local units have the financial and organizational capacities to sustainably exercise their functions.

Its calculation includes five elements: fiscal autonomy, budgetary rigidity, weighted functional coverage, staff efficiency, and the burden of arrears.

The report explains that “functionality” does not directly measure the quality of services that citizens receive from the municipality. The index primarily assesses whether the financial and administrative conditions exist that enable a local unit to exercise its own and delegated functions.

Kukes, more dependent on conditional funds

Weak functionality is also related to the limited degree of financial autonomy of some municipalities.

At the national level, the conditional transfer amounts to 35.3 billion lek, compared to 23.8 billion lek of the unconditional transfer. The funds that the central government provides to municipalities for pre-determined uses are thus about 11.5 billion lek higher than the transfers that local units can use according to their priorities.

The dependency is most evident in regions such as Kukes, Dibra and Gjirokastra, where the weight of conditional transfers is higher. Municipalities in these regions have a more limited revenue base of their own and, at the same time, less room to decide autonomously how the funds will be used.

The report also links this problem to the principles of the European Charter of Local Self-Government, according to which local units should have at their disposal a larger share of financial resources that they can use in accordance with local priorities./ Monitor


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