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Every citizen, regardless its temporary or permanent residence should be able to access public information with regards to the local public services administered in Romania. The Institute for Public Policy places the topic of transparency with regards to domestic or international resources in support of the local public services’ management in top of the list of priorities. It carefully monitors that all regulations with regards to public procurement procedures are respected particularly in several key areas such as: health or education, areas where IPP’s evaluations, including policy recommendations, are promptly delivered for public information.
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Poiana Braşov, 25 September 2009 ■ The intention to further decentralize public services in strategic domains like education, healthcare or public order, without an objective assessment which should constantly reflect, with statistical data, the local authorities’ effective capacity to take over and manage those functions, is quite risky and may cause serious discontinuities in their being provided to the population. The data concerning several key utilities managed in 2008 by City Halls of Municipalities, such as water and sewerage, household heating, management of green areas, and the community police, point mainly to a tendency to preserve rather than modernize the quality of these services and to a reduced capability to access grant funds for their development. The Ministries’ programs do not rely on systematic assessments of how local services are managed, and are designed more to deal with extreme situations rather than to direct resources towards a strategic modernization of those services. The municipalities’ efforts vary widely from one zone to another and the national policies on public services do not take local features sufficiently into consideration.
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