| Active partenership between government and citizens: experiences from the Kyrgyz Republic | Posted on May 14, 2007 | ||
| Is there public participation in Romania? | Posted on March 19, 2007 | ||
This is a question to which the Resource Centre for Public Participation tries to answer thorough a study with the same name, elaborated between June 15th and September 15th 2006. The study aims to describe and analyse the public consultation practice in Romania, including the legislative analysis, the analysis of concrete methods of public consultation and the formulation of recommendations for improving the public participation practice in Romania. The study uncovers the characteristics of the public consultation process, beyond the limited analysis of the effects of Law no. 52/2003 (Law regarding the decisional transparency in public administration). The paper comprises relevant information „from behind the scenes of the consultation processes”, collected through elaborated interviews with leaders of public and private organizations and focus-groups. Community-based organizations and citizen’s groups may find in this study an inspiration to improve their relations with public authorities and to acquire a role as active as possible in the process of local development.
| Ordinance 26/2000 regarding associations and foundations | Posted on March 19, 2007 | ||
Community-based
groups and community organizations which are interested of obtaining
legal registration can make use of the provisions of Ordinance 26/2000
regarding associations and foundations (amended and approved through
Law no. 246/2005). Ordinance 26 regulates the general framework for the
establishment, organization and functioning (set up and registration,
constitutive bodies, revenues, relations with the public authorities,
dissolvation and liquidation) concerning the non-governmental and
non-profit organizations.
A community-based organization is a non-governmental organization or an
informal group of citizens constituted by the members of a community,
which associate in order to initiate activities meant to contribute to
the development of their community, responding to the local needs as
identified by its members. Foundation PACT promotes community-based
organizations as being non-governmental organizations with deeper and
more solid roots within the communities of origin, that are aware of
the real needs of the community and propose realistic solutions for
meeting them, using resources from within and outside the community.
From the legislative point of view, there is no distinction between the
concept of “community-based organization” and that of “non-governmental
and non-profit organization”, and community-based organizations that
wish to obtain legal status can achieve this on the basis of Ordinance
26/2000.
