Year 2006 – figures and accomplishments



 


TRANSPARENCY AND ETHICS IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION


Goal: The project wants to contribute to the increase of the quality of local public service for satisfying the needs and requirements of the citizens and the community.

Main activities:
- Survey “Citizens’ Perception of the Public Service” – undertook by IRSOP

- Group of monitors of the public service
The group of monitors of the public service was constituted and worked as a non-formal group. The activity within the group will be based on voluntary work. The 30 volunteers, representatives of the civil society, will take part in a 3-day training concerning issues of public administration (especially the law of transparency and the behavior code), knowledge of the specific of the local public structures and functions at, communication and public relations.

- The formations of formatters (ethic counselors)
The courses meant for the formation of ethic counselors will take place in 3 stages and will include 36 public servants from communication and PR departments of local public administration structures (The Prefecture, The District Council, The Municipal Council, The Communal Council and Mayoralties) in the 4 locations in which the project is being implemented.

- The Manual of Behavior Code Implementation
The procedure manual of behavior code implementation will address a larger segment, as an efficient instrument for providing information to the public servants in general and for the formation of the young public servants.

- The public debates
15 public debates will be organized by TVR, our partner in the project. The TV broadcasts will run once a week for 4 months, and will have a minimum of 30 minutes each.

- Open Gates Day
It will be organized by the members of the group of monitors, in collaboration with the local authorities, in one of the structures selected for the project, another in each of the 4 locations.
The purpose of organizing such an activity is creating mutual knowledge opportunities and the set up of a better communication system between the public servants and the citizens.

- “A New Mentality in the Public Service”
The conference will be held at the end of the project for disseminating and extending the gathered experience. There will be 70 participants, representatives of the districts involved in the project and the 10 districts where the project is destined to be expanded: central authorities, NGOs, mass-media, representatives of the groups of monitors.

 
   

 

 

• 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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