The Study on Children in Street Situation in Albania is conducted in the framework of Social Services Reform by the Ministry of Social Welfare and Youth in collaboration with UNICEF and Save the Children. ARSIS, GFK and an international expert have been appointed to carry out the Study from May 2013 to February 2014. This is the first national qualitative and quantitative assessment of children in street situation carried out in Albania, providing a baseline for this phenomenon. The main aim of the study is to give key stakeholders a thorough and extensive understanding of all issues and numbers surrounding this target group, for the definition and review of the policy agenda and to plan current and future interventions. This study is for the benefit of relevant government bodies/agencies, as well as civil society organisations to support the development of new strategies regarding children in street situation and to improve service provision for these children and other support mechanisms needed in prevention and protection for them and their families. The main demographic findings were that the majority of children in street situation are boys aged 10-17 years old: in both counting phases, twice as many boys were seen than girls (70.1% or 1476 boys, and 29.9% or 538 girls in wave 1; 74% – 1882 boys and 26% – 645 girls in wave 2), however a more even distribution between the genders is seen amongst younger children. Almost a third of children in street situation are 15-17 year old adolescents (on average 29.5% or 745 children), while children from 4-14 years of age were 66.5% (1680 on average), and there were a significant number of infant children from 0-3 years old (102 children or 4% on average). Quite a number of younger children (0-5 year olds) accompany their mothers while begging found (wave 1: 11.66% or 235 children; wave 2: 13.9% or 381 children). Children are involved in different street-related activities. The most common of these are selling different items (38% wave 1- 25% wave 2) such as cigarettes, lighters, water, farm produce and other foods, flowers, pens, pencils, car fresheners or other accessories, as well as begging for money (35% wave 1 – 21% wave 2), recycling plastic and metal (8% wave 1 – 20% wave 2), and informal jobs (12% wave 1 – 15% wave 2). Informal jobs include loading and unloading goods trucks, working in agriculture, cleaning roads, cleaning at cemeteries, looking after sun beds on beaches, working at entrances to mines, and busking. The trend in informal work is towards a greater diversity of activities and these jobs extend beyond the urban settings more than previously believed. The study based its data gathering on an inclusive definition of children in street situations adapted to the Albanian context. However from interviews in Wave 1 with children, it was also possible to group them in terms of UNICEF’s definitions: Children “of” the Street (4.3% or 19 children) – those who stay in the streets during the day and also sleep in the street, possibly due to loss or absence of parents, alcoholism, domestic violence, divorce and/or remarriage of parents; Children “on” the Street (79% or 347 children) who mainly stay in the streets during the daylight hours and return to their homes or residential care centres at night; and Street-Family Children (16.7% or 73 children) – those who live with their family on the street.