June 21st 2005 - August 31st 2005

Decentralisation Strategies

The Matra BCD project "Building Capacity for a Decentralised Government in Romania" is taking place under the co-ordination of the Romanian Ministry of Administration and Interior and is funded by the MATRA Programme of the Dutch Government.The main goal of the project is to consolidate the operational capacity of the Central Unit for Public Administration Reform under the Ministry for Administration and Interior, and of the Groups for Modernising Public Administration that acts at the level of ministries and counties. These bodies are to support the local authorities during the process of decentralising three public services: social housing, water supply and social assistance (employment services).

Within the project there were organized three teams consisting of representatives of concerned ministries and local authorities involved in the areas of the project. Each team was coordinated by Dutch experts for elaborating a draft strategy for decentralising one of the three selected public services.

Please find the three draft decentralisation strategies:

• Unemployment services decentralization strategy: unemployment.pdf [390K]
• Water delivery decentralization strategy: water.pdf [364K]
• Social housing decentralization strategy: socialhousing.pdf [418K]

The project would appreciate and benefit from your analisys and comments. Please send your opinions and proposals, until August 31st 2005, to the following persons - that can also offer more information on the project:

• Domnica Focsaneanu, Assistant expert, Central Unit for Public Administration Reform, Ministry of Administration and Interior; phone. 315.08.79; email: domnica.focsaneanu@mai.gov.ro;
• Nicolae Taralunga, IHS Romania, Matra BCD National Project Coordinator; phone/fax: 021 313 7475, email: ihsro@b.astral.ro