Open Data Albania
has analyzed the draft budget for 2016, and has noticed that the Prime
Minister’s office will acquire 303 new employees in 2016, as the result
of several new agencies under its authority.
After the Prime Minister’s office, the
next highest addition of employees will belong to the Ministry of
Defense, at 247 new hires. The Ministry of Social Welfare and Youth will
hire 177 new employees, and the Ministry of Economic Development,
Trade, and Entrepreneurship will take on 148. 128 new employees will be
hired by the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development, and Water
Management.
Hiring in the other institutions will
not reach these high levels. The data indicates that fewer employees
will be hired to work in the Ministry of Education and Sports, the
Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry
of Urban Development and Tourism, the Statistical Institute, and other
government bodies. All of these ministries will make fewer new hires
than they did in 2015. The most noticeable reduction is the Ministry of
Education and Sports, which will hire seven thousand one hundred fewer
employees.
This is
because a number of competences are being transferred from the ministry
to the local governments. The 2016 state administration will be the
smallest in the recent 5 years. According to “
Open Data Albania this reduction does not mean cuts in the administration, but reflects
the transfer of a number of functions from the central government to the
local governments.