The Consortium for Good Governance

Goal and objectives
The goal of the project was to increase the capacity of the new Consortium for Good Governance (The Pro Democracy Association-PDA, the Resource Centre for public participation - CeRe and the Media Monitoring Agency - MMA) to implement projects aimed at increasing the quality of local governance and to assist nongovernmental organisations and local administrations in implementing similar projects.

The objectives of the project:

• creation of a methodology to be used for assessing and increasing the quality of local governance;
• developing two pilot projects to test and refine the methodology and to be implemented in the two communities;
• promotion of the methodology towards the local public administration and NGOs in 1000 communities.
    

Results

• a methodology for assessing and increasing the quality of governance at local level was created and obtained recognition from the Towns' Association of Romania;
• local governance good practices were collected from European countries (Hungary and France);
• local working groups were formed in 2 communities, Jimbolia and Cristeşti;
• local public administration improved its communication methods in its relationship with the citizens;
• citizens from the 2 communities learnt how to monitor and engage in a dialogue with local administration;
• the governance in the two communities was assessed according to the newly created methodology;
• the above mentioned methodology was promoted and tested within the project;
• the methodology for promoting good governance in Romanian communities was adopted and further improved during the project "Partnership for Good Governance and Local Development".

[The project "The Consortium for Good Governance" was financed by World Learning International.]