Year 2009 – figures and accomplishments



 


OBSERVER OF THE PREFECT INSTITUTION


The project will take place in Bucharest and the districts of Arad, Constanţa, Harghita and Iaşi and pursues the raise of implication of the civil society in ensuring an efficient governing at a local level. According to this purpose, the project proposes the establishment of monitoring mechanisms for the way The Neutrality of the Prefect Law is being enforced, to eliminate the interference of the politics in the act of administration and the corruption generated and sustained by this interference. Participants in the project will be citizens, public servants, NGO and mass-media representatives (around 10.000 persons, direct and indirect beneficiaries). The main activities concern the foundation of The Prefect Institution Observer, as a structure of the civil society, public consultations, interviews, surveys, radio shows, presentations of European models for elaborating, at the end of the project, a certain amount of propositions meant to ensure, through generalization, the meeting of European standards in the Romanian public administration. The project will be spread in ten other districts. Our main partner is the National Agency of the Public Servants (ANFP).

 

General objective:
Raising the efficiency and professionalism of the prefect institution by ensuring its neutrality from the political power, according to the provisions of Law 340/2004
Purpose of the project:
Raising the degree of implication of the civil society in ensuring an efficient governing at a local level, based on the respect for the law and the quality of public services offered to the citizens.

Direct beneficiaries:

  1. 83 high officials, prefects and sub-prefects
  2. 150 citizens, beneficiaries of local public services from Bucharest, Arad, Constanţa, Harghita şi Iaşi
  3.  30 leaders of the local public services from the 5 locations of the project
  4. 150 public servants from the local public services in the 5 locations of the project
  5. 30 mass-media representatives
  6. 30 voluntaries – representatives of the civil society – members of the Prefect Institution Observer (6 persons form each location, NGOs, mass-media, public servants syndicate’s and experts’ from the regional public servants perfection centers representatives)
  7. 10 NGOs representing 10 country districts

Activities:

  1. Preparation of the project
  2. Launching and promoting the project
  3. Survey: „Public Administration and the Neutrality of the Public Function”
  4. The Prefect Institution Observer: having two basic components – The body of monitors of the Observer (including representatives of the social society from the 5 locations implicated in the project, having as main task the monitoring of the activity of the  prefects and sub-prefects and the analyze of the political neutrality of the prefect institution) and the Public consultations (reuniting representatives of the social society and the local public services. Two gatherings of the prefects and sub-prefects  will take place in Bucharest, at the ANFP headquarters.)
  5. Radio show “European Integration Files”
  6. Reunions with prefects from France and Italy
  7. Good practice guide

Main partner:
National Agency of the Public Sevants (ANFP)

 
   

 

 

• over 18000 beneficiaries of the implemented projects;

• over 50 mass media reports;

• 20 multipliers trained on how to use certain tools for human rights educators: the Compass, Compasito and Gender Matters manuals;

• the realization of the „Citizens view on environment quality in Bucharest” survey;

• 18 activities from the Human Rights Education Manual – Compasito were translated, out of which 13 were adapted by the facilitators within 134 workshops, which were attended by over 380 children from the 6 selected schools;

• the Companion type publication was published in 300 copies;

• the realization of the National Strategy on human / child rights education in schools, with the participation of students, teachers, educators, experts on human rights;

• a project was realized in order for it to be discussed within the National Committee on approving the extracurricular activities calendar of the Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports, for introducing the “Student’s Ombudsman – promoter of child rights in the school ethos” summer school;

• 15 public institutions and authorities were evaluated from the point of view of their quality of services for citizens and they elaborated the first model of quality standards for the public services in Romania;

• over 100 civil servants participated in the elaboration of Citizens’ Charter;

• 10.000 citizens beneficiaries of quality services offered by the public institutions/ authorities that elaborated the Citizens’ Charter;

• 5 radio shows, integrated in the European Integration Files show, realized by RRS;

• 2.000 flyers and 1.000 posters used in the information activities addressed to the citizens;

• the distribution of 3.000 copies of the compendium with Citizens Charter.

 


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