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Year 2009 – figures and accomplishments |
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Speech of His Excellency Mister Ambassador Jonathan Scheele
- I would like to congratulate the organization “Assistance and Programs for Sustainable Development – Agenda 21” for the project run, having as objective the raising of the quality of the civil service at local level for satisfying the needs of the citizens and the community.
- Your project is a success, first of all because it responds to the need of democratic change of the public administration system in Romania and second because of the impressive number of direct and indirect beneficiaries.
- I congratulate you for the good example of partnership between a structure of the civil society and a central structure of the public administration, which proves that this kind of collaborations are salutary and substantially contribute to maintaining a balance between exercising the civil service and using monitoring mechanisms by the NGOs for a better transparency, setting the foundation of an essential democratic process.
- The two monitored laws, the one concerning the decisional transparency in the public administration and the law concerning the civil servants’ code of conduct are extremely important for the civil society as a whole because the represent the legal framework which develops the implications of a participative democracy and regulates the exercise of the civil service and contributes to the elimination of bureaucracy and corruption.
- I would also like to notice the fact that you included in your project the public debates on a national television channel, which provided more visibility to your actions and informed the public about the existence of the law of the code of conduct.
- As the title of your conference suggests, beside the practical achievements of which you can be proud (the body of public observers, the formation of formatters, the procedures manual for implementing the code of conduct – an effective instrument for the civil servants, the open gates day – which leaded to a better communication between the civil servants and the citizens etc.) you also took into consideration and manage to achieve a change in mentality, a dimension which should be considered in any approach of deep change of the society and especially of the state’s administrative structures.
- I would finally like to congratulate you for your initiative and involvement in projects which bring a change in the institutional transparency and wish you good luck in your future projects.
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• 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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