Reinforcement of Platform for Bucharest – Stronger Voices for Sustainable Urban Development
Promoting the principles of good governance, decisional transparency and public participation in decision-making at local and central government level.
The Platform for Bucharest is a coalition of 42 NGOs, united in order to enforce sustainable development principles at local administration level in Bucharest as well as at the level of the central public authorities.
Objectives:
1. Shaping the interior structure of the coalition in order to ease decision - making procedures and activity coordination.
2. Achieving improved means of exterior communication and reinforcing the Platforms rapport with citizens and public authorities.
The main activities were:
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the creation of decision-making mechanisms as well as working systems within the Platform by establishing working groups each relevant to an area of expertise of member organizations ( thus, five working groups have been created, focused respectively on: good governance, urban planning , social studies, heritage, environment);
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monitoring the six districts' mayors' activities with relevance to the ladder fields of expertise and also the ones of the Mayor of Bucharest during their 2008 - 2012 terms;
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organizing debates between qualified local administration personnel and citizens in order to generate the Pact for Bucharest 2 (strategic document on development visions for Bucharest);
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organising training sessions for journalists on the main focus areas of the Platform and also a competition on documenting public policies in Bucharest;
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offering citizens legal assistance in the field of urban development.
Implementation period
12/2011 - 12/2012
Project partners
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Asociația Agenția de Monitorizare a Presei, București, România
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Asociația pentru Tranziția Urbană, București, România
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Centrul de Resurse pentru participare publică, București, România
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Ecopolis, București, România
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Grupul pentru Dezvoltare Locală, București, România
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Pro Do Mo, București, România
Project website
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