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Public Report in support of community projects in Constanta sustained by PACT through Community Fund Pontus Euxin In early June 2011, PACT launched Community Fund Pontus Euxin, totaling 32.600 RON, under its management. The Fund was established by selling tickets at the conference-event, held up by actor Dan Puric in Constanta, on November 20th 2010. The event was organized by a group of citizens in Constanta (constituted as an Initiative Group for Community Fund Pontus Euxin), with support from PACT Foundation, in order to attract funds to sustain local community projects. The main purpose of the fund is to stimulate initiative groups and NGOs in Constanta to develop projects that contribute to producing positive changes in different urban communities in the city of Constanta.

PACT Foundation held Wednesday, December 7th, from 19.30 at Café Godot Theatre, a medieval theme party, which is the second fundraising event from private sources for the Community Fund for action and transformation of villages in southern Romania. The total amount collected at this event, of 8754 lei, from selling tickets, "all pay" auction (everyone pays) for special objects donated and classic auction for works of art offered by artists, will be used to support projects initiated by groups of citizens in rural communities in southern Romania.

Active partenership between government and citizens: experiences from the Kyrgyz Republic

Posted on May 14, 2007

Between 2004-2007, Allavida and Center Interbilim have developed a project to support community members from 40 rural communities from Chui and Osh regions (Kyrgyzstan Republic) to associate in community-based organizations to address various community problems. The project also aimed to support local authorities to work better with citizens and develop partnerships between the new community-based organizations and local authorities. This collection of case studies presents stories of 11 communities where cooperation efforts were made between citizens and local authorities for approaching community problems, such as: conflicts around land restitution, lack of medical assistance services in the area, lack of qualifications and unemployment, poorly developed irrigations systems, lack of entertaining activities for the community youth and others. Foundation PACT had contributed to this work by providing a training on case study writing to the project team.

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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.

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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.

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