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Asociatia Pro Democratia
As part of its strategy for the following years, Asociatia Pro Democratia currently implements projects aiming at supporting the fight against corruption on the one hand and promoting civic participation and public debates, on the other, and uses its national network in order to strive for deeper, grass root results. The following projects will be discussed next in more detail: Your Silence Is Expensive!; Campaign for a Clean Local Public Administration; Partnership for Good Governance and Local Development; Transparency and Control in Political Party Financing; and Constitutional Reform.
For more information about any of these projects, please visit our website: www.apd.ro or contact us by sending an email to: apd@apd.ro.
Asociatia Pro Democratia implements the project “Your Silence Is Expensive! Campaign for a Clean Local Public Administration” between December 2007 and October 2008. As far as the fight against corruption is concerned, Asociatia Pro Democratia has a specific approach among Romanian NGOs active in the field. It focuses on promoting integrity, so preventing corruption rather than fighting corruption by pushing for punishments for individual acts. Consequently, the purpose of this project is to develop a stimulating environment for fighting corruption at the level of six municipalities in Romania. In order to do so, the main instrument APD will use and further develop is the activity of whistle-blowers as a discouraging practice for corruption acts, different types of abuses and incompatibilities in local government.
Between December 2007 and October 2008 Asociatia Pro Democratia continues its campaign for promoting good governance at the local level and runs the project “Partnership for Good Governance and Local Government”, aiming to consolidate and promote the principles of good governance and local development through participatory mechanisms.
Asociatia Pro Democratia has taken a leading role in promoting and supporting transparency of political parties and electoral campaigns financing since early 2000. It has monitored electoral spending of political parties and candidates for national elections organized in 2000 and 2004 and promoted its results among citizens and journalists, advocated for legislative improvements in accordance to its findings, supported the public consultation process run by Romanian authorities in their attempts to improve the legislation in this field, and, last but not least, attended all debates in the Commissions of the Romanian Parliament to advocate such improvements.
The year 2007 was one of the best moments to start debates and discussions on the necessity of a constitutional revision of the Romanian fundamental law. The decision by the Romanian Parliament to suspend the Romanian President and the campaign for the validation of this decision, the decision to call and organize the referendum for the introduction of the single constituency vote electoral reform, and the subsequent conflicts between the central institutions of the state have stirred discussions on specific constitutional provisions and their ammendments.
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