The Deputy from My City

Goal
The project "The Deputy from My City" aimed to strengthen the role of the local offices of Romanian deputies from 4 electoral constituencies (Arad, Constanta, Maramures and Neamt) by activating them as a first point of contact between deputies and local NGOs, organizing consultations with the NGOs within the legislative process and forwarding to deputies the positions adopted by the participating NGOs.

 
Results

• training seminar for parliamentary offices of deputies elected in the 4 selected counties (Arad, Constanţa, Maramureş, Neamţ);
• training seminar for the NGOs representatives coming from the 4 counties;
• communication guide with the electors for the parliamentary offices;
• communication guide with the local deputy offices for nongovernmental organisations;
• organisation of public debates in the four counties;
• writing the reports of the 4 public debates and communicating them to the deputies from the county and other public institutions concerned;
• the representatives of the 13 participating parliamentary offices convinced themselves of the necessity to consult with the civil society within their activities;
• the representatives of the parliamentary offices gained knowledge and made use of consultation methods and are now able to start working with local NGOs on actual subjects;
• the representatives of the parliamentary offices taking part in the project could meet with a considerable number of representatives of the local civil society and representatives of other parliamentary offices and identify a set of good practices at this level;
• representatives of 34 local NGOs involved in the project were introduced to working techniques with the parliamentary offices;
• the local parliamentary offices and NGOs involved in the project established working relationships on the legal modifications proposed during the public debates.

[The project "The Deputy from My City!" was co-financed by by the Chamber of Deputies, the programme "Partnership with the Civil Society" and CeRe.]