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The project addresses the need of the NGO sector to become a promoter of projects and initiatives that are better anchored in the budgetary processes and in the limitations imposed by a very complicated period from the economic perspective. The need of the sector to know the budgetary processes and to anchor its project proposals or advocacy initiatives in concrete elements currently benefits from a favorable framework - the Covid-19 crisis that seems to come with less money as a result of the economic crisis, but also with the orientation of European funds, especially on social and environmental topics, a context which will probably make the authorities a little more open to a dialogue, if the non-governmental partners know how to come up with concrete solutions and will not be fooled.
The project starts from this need identified directly by us through requests for support in this field that come mainly from small organizations or underserved areas (human rights, working with very vulnerable groups or geographical areas not covered), but also by observing indicators such as those in the Open Budget Survey which place the Romanian budget process very high in terms of transparency and at almost 0 in terms of participation.
We want to map vulnerable communities (geographically or by area) and their training needs in terms of understanding the budget process and their opportunities to participate in it. We want to develop the capacity of the sector to be able to substantiate and use the processes that lead to well-founded proposals, but also to succeed in communicating the actions and results in the field to a wider public. We do this by forming 40 NGOs, but also by creating a support center and support tools (including coaching) so that as many organizations as possible can have the capacity to request and receive resources for the communities they serve.