On the 22^nd of December 2021, in Tirana, Albania, the IISG Secretariat held a meeting with ARK IT. The aim of the meeting was to increase the capacities of Western Balkan partners in providing data to the IISG database. The IISG Secretariat was represented by senior expert/Deputy Head of IISG Secretariat, Ms. Maja Pinjo Talevska, and IISG subject matter expert, Mr. Eros Andoni.   The next step of the IISG Database will be populating the database with projects for all Pillars.