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Partnership Community of Practice Malta, 17th
January 2008
Employment and social inclusion Pacts in Romania
(ESF supporting Governance structures)
Danut DUMITRU Maria Rauch
Counselor
ESF Expert ESF Managing Authority

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OVERVIEW
1 Romania - the need of Partnership
approaches 2 Results the implemented
model 3 Current State of the art 4 Future
role of partnerships
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ESF MA and need of Partnerships

• improve policy co-ordination and adaptation to
  local conditions,
• lead to better utilisation and targeting of
  programmes,
• integrate civil societys concerns into strategic
  planning exercises through widespread
  participatory democracy,
• stimulate corporate involvement in local projects
• and promote greater satisfaction with public
  policy.
• (OECD Local Partnerships for better Governance,
  2001)

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ESF Regulation

• Art 3 - Scope of Assistance
• Promoting partnerships, pacts and initiatives
  through networking of relevant stakeholders, such
  as social partners and NGOs, at national,
  regional, local and transnational level in order
  to mobilise for reforms in the field of
  employment and labour market inclusiveness.
• Art 5- Good Governance and Partnerships

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Creating the right conditions
Study national policy
Define Target Locality
Consider a partnership
Make links with others
Understanding national policy
Consider labour market areas
Choose an effective format
To regional, national and EU policymakers
Examine local capacity
Consider admnistrative areas
Ensure good leardership
To neighbouring localities
Look for existing partnerships
Be strategic yet local
Involve right partners
To similar localities across Europe
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Define Target Locality
Study national policy

• Desk Research (main policy documents and
  reports)
• Meeting several national important actors
  (National Agency for Employment, Roma National
  Agency,etc)
• Regional/local structure analysis
• Selections of target areas
• Screening of regions desk research and local
  interviews with all main relevant actors

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Consider a partnership

• Policy making levelnational
• Operational/executive levels county and local
• Structures at local level weak (in general)
• Lack of competencies for the development of
  projects
• Need to integrate the different levels in one
  model to increase effectiveness and efficiency

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Romanian Model of Employment and Social
Inclusion Partnership
Regional Employment Pact
PermanentTechnical Secretariat
County Based Partnerships
Multiplication level
Local Actors Local Project partnerships
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Partners
Prefectures County Councils Employment
Agencies Church School Inspectorates Chambers of
Commerce and Industry Universities Trade
Unions Employers Associations Civil Society
representatives (NGOs) Regional Roma Bureaus RDA
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Territory Coverage
- 8 Regions with Pacts formally existing - 36
County Based Partnerships and Local
Parnerships - Several projects being elaborated
and submited
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Current State of the art

• Pacts and County Partnerships have an elected
  organisational
• and management structure
• Working Groups by priority of the Regional
  employment Plan
• Development of project ideas
• Establishment of project partnerships and
  redaction groups for
• the proposals
• Common development of proposals
• Development of projects

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Future role of the Pacts

• Permanent Technical secretariats being set up
• Responsibility for the Regional Employment Plan
• Capacity Building of actors to work in
  partnership
• Establishment of transnational cooperation
  projects

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Key Success Factors

• Knowledge, skills and capacity building a
  mentoring system is fundamental
• Time process needs consolidation
• Level of ownership Committed Leadership
• Capacity of being innovative and to develop
  projects.

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Thank you for your attention !