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NGO Programme - Romania

General PresentationOCTOBER 2013

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3,50 M Euro

Component 1. ENGAGE

Component 2. SOCIAL JUSTICE

Component 3. SUSTAINABLE

DEVELOPMENT

Component 4. WELFARE AND BASIC

SERVICES

Component 5. NGO

DEVELOPMENT.

NETWORKS AND COALITIONS

25,500,000 Euroto be distributed to project promoters

Proposed Components and financial allocations

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Outcome

Component

Active

citizenship

fostered

Increased

involvement

of NGOs in

policy and

decision-

making

processes

with local,

regional and

national

government

s

Cross-

sectoral

partnership

s

developed,

particularly

with

government

organisations at local,

regional

and/or

national

Democratic

values,

including

human

rights,

promoted

Advocacy

and

watchdog

role

developed

Developed

networks

and

coalitions of

NGOs

working inpartnership

Strengthened

capacity of

NGOs and an

enabling

environment

for the sectorpromoted

Increased

contributio

n to

sustainabl

e

developme

nt

achieved

Provision of

welfare and

basic

services to

defined

target

groups

increased

Empower-

ment of

vulnerable

groups

1. ENGAGE

2. SOCIAL JUSTICE

3. SUSTAINABLE

DEVELOPMENT

4. WELFARE & BASIC

SERVICES

5. NGO CAPACITY

DEVELOPMENT

Outcomes addressed by each Component

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Specific Programme allocations

Component 1.

ENGAGE

Minimum allocation:5,250,000 Euro

Component 5.

NGO CAPACITY

DEVELOPMENT.

NETWORKS AND

COALITIONS

Minimum allocation:

2,000,000 Euro

Core Areasmore than 1/3 of the re-granting allocation

Component 2.

SOCIAL JUSTICE

Minimum allocation:

2,500,000 Euro

Component 4.

WELFARE

AND BASIC SERVICES

Minimum allocation:

1,000,000 Euro

Minimum 10,750,000 Euro for:

Democracy

Human rights including minorities rights (ethnic, religious, linguistic and sexual

orientation)

Good governance and transparency

Participatory democracy

Combat racism and xenophobia

Anti-discrimination

Social inequalities, poverty and exclusion, including in rural areas

Gender equality Gender-based violence

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Component 1. ENGAGE

1.1. Participation in

decision-making and

community engagement

minimum 500,000 Euro

1.2 Volunteer


1.3 Encouraging

democratic values


Minimum allocation:

1,100,000 Euro

Component 4.

WELFARE AND BASIC SERVICES

Minimum allocation:

2,000,000 Euro


2.2 Fighting social inequalities,

poverty and exclusion


Minimum allocation:

150,000 Euro

TOTAL 3,350,000 Euro

Children and youthmore than 10% of the total Programme allocation

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2.1 Rural interethnic communities

development at least 750,000 Euro

2.2 Fighting social inequalities, poverty

and exclusion

at least 500,000 Euro

Minimum allocation: 1,250,000 Euro

Component 4. WELFARE AND BASIC

SERVICES

Minimum allocation: 6,250,000 Euro

Provision of welfare and basic servicesmore than 20% of the total Programme allocation

Minimum 7,500,000 Euro

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Sub-Component 1.3

Encouraging democratic

values

Among the areas

supported:

- promotion and protection

of human rights and

combating racism,

xenophobia and

discrimination

Allocation:

3,000,000 Euro

Component 4.

WELFARE AND BASIC SERVICES

Main focus:

- to increase access to and

provision of welfare and basic

services to vulnerable groups

(including Roma)

Allocation:

8,000,000 Euro

Addressing the specific needs of minority groups, with a special focus on Roma

Sub-Component 2.1

Rural interethnic

communities development

Main focus:

- to contribute on medium

and long term to the

development of the

disadvantaged communities

and improvement of Roma

situation in interethnic

communities

Allocation:

3,000,000 Euro

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Pre-defined projects

1.Social Atlas of Roma

Communities in Romania

design and implement the

Social Atlas of the Roma

Communities in Romania by

involving Roma communities

in the process;

provide expert advice to

relevant public institutions in

Romania who are using the

data in order to improve the

public policies for the benefit

of the Roma communities

3. NGO Forum

to bring together for the

National Forum of RomanianNGOs organisations

throughout Romania and

with various field of activity,

for establishing in a

participatory and

transparent manner their

vision upon the NGO sector

for 1 year, to facilitate the knowledge of

politicians, public authorities,

business sector and mass

media upon the core

legitimised vision of the

public evolution of the

Romania NGO sector

2. Resources for the future -

developing and strengthening

capacity of NGOs to efficiently

fundraise

strengthening the long-termcapacity of Romanian NGOs to

mobilize private resources from a

broad base of supporters in a

systematic manner, as a strong

component of financial and

organizational viability

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Complementary actions

1. Launching Conference

2. The Civil Society Forum in Central and Eastern Europe

3. Regional conference on Roma and discrimination in the region

4. Civic Arena Magazine

5. Thematic Conferences - Who does seriously challenge the political agenda? ; Social policies for better

social services ; Innovative tools used in children and youth projects;Environment and sustainable

development

6. Fellowship- Good Practices exchange for the NGO Fund Operators staff

7. NGO Fair - 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

8. Awareness campaign on hate speech topic

9. (NO) Hate Speech Resource Network

10. Final Conference - Good practices and future trends

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Bilateral relations

Total allocation: 500,000 Euro

Measure a)

Grant scheme318,000 Euro

Objective: supporting the Romanian NGOs (potential applicants) in searching for partners from donorcountries and/or in developing the partnership and preparing and submitting a project based on this

partnership.

Thematic workshops in order to facilitate the development of partnerships among NGOs in Romania and

in the donor states (Launching event)

Measure b)

Study visits - 3 study visits will be organized by the PO, one in each donor state. 10 to 15 participants will

take part in each visit

Objective: to strengthen the partnerships and to allow the exchange of experience, knowledge and good

practices between the project promoters and entities in the donor states

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How much involvement desire exists among NGOs in Romania?

About 800%.

Within the first Round of Calls for Proposals under the NGO Fund in Romania Program, thetotal amount requested through the projects submitted is 8,23 times higher than theamount allocated.

there were submitted approximately 1500 projects proposal. For this first Round there were

allocated a total of 15.93 million of euro that covers less than 12% of the requested amount.

The second call for proposal to be launched in april 2014.

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Consortium

Civil Society Development Foundation

leader of the Consortium

(Bucharest)

Romanian Environmental Partnership

Foundation

(Miercurea Ciuc)

Resource Center for Roma Communities

(Cluj-Napoca)

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