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School dropout rates in Romania remain among the highest in Europe and the educational system results show a high proportion of 15 years old students with low educational performances. Civil society organizations are constantly mobilizing for responding to the needs of the school aged children from disadvantaged environments and ensure their access to education. However, their organizational capacity is in many cases limited, with ad-hoc interventions, while the organizations do not succeed in investing in the sustainability and building their capacity. Both a survey carried out by World Bank in 2020 and an analysis performed by Teach for Romania Association revealed a set of urgent needs: fundraising, organizational management, operational planning for short term, strategic planning, measuring and monitoring the impact on beneficiaries, as well as partnerships and relations with local public institutions.
The aim of the project is to increase the capacity of NGOs to develop and carry out sustainable interventions that support the right to education of children from disadvantaged communities in Ilfov, Călărași, Brașov, Iași and Vaslui counties. The current project covers the needs of capacity building of the organizations through interventions on fundraising capabilities, organizational management, and management of relations with public authorities.
Another contribution that the project will bring to the sector is raising the level of public awareness on the problems and obstacles in education, alongside the profile of the organizations that work on solving them. The project seeks to address these needs in a way that is connected to the reality of organizations, generating autonomy and sustainability while encouraging collaboration and knowledge sharing between organizations.