As reported earlier this year in TIS, the Romanian NDGO Platform FOND is currently implementing the project “Development Cooperation in Romania: Building FOuNDation for Policy Work”, financed by the Presidency Fund. The project aims to strengthen the capacity of Romanian civil society to engage the Romanian public authorities on development cooperation in order to influence the national policies in the field, as well as to participate in policy debates on development at European level. By implementing this project, FOND wants to initiate a national debate on development cooperation in the framework of the newly acquired status of Romania as a donor country and in the context of the ratification of the Cotonou Agreement by the Romanian Parliament.
As part of the activities, FOND has already organised a study visit in December 2008 to the French Platform and 5 of its member NGOs and seminars on the Cotonou Agreement and the EU-Africa Strategic Partnership in Bucharest. One of the results of the project will be the creation of sustainable sources of information on development cooperation available in Romanian language, which will allow for a better visibility for FOND and its members and support their advocacy and lobby activities.
One of the activities of this project includes the creation of a database with Romanian experts working in the field of development cooperation abroad, mostly in international organisations. If you are concerned, please contact FOND coordinator Adela Rusu to join the database or for further information: adela.rusu@fondromania.org. Also if you happen to know or have worked with Romanian experts in this field, FOND would be grateful if you forward this information to them or provide Adela Rusu with their contact details.
Information provided by Adela Rusu, FOND Romania
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