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The 2005Annual Report ofAsociaţia Pro Democraţia was published with the financial support of Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. 

None of our 2005 activities could have existed without the efforts of our volunteers and members. We are grateful to them and to our 

donors, partners, and beneficiaries who supported us in developing our projects. 

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Texts and photos:APD Clubs and the National Coordination Center 

Published in 2006. 

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Foreword 

APD Activities in 2005 

Involving Citizens in the Decision-Making Process at the Local Public Administration Level 

Strenghtening the Relation between the Voters and Their Representatives 

Improving Legislation and Its Enforcement 

Education for Democracy 

The Electoral Process under the Lens 

Other Activities in 2005 

Financial Report 2005 

APD Structure 

The Clubs 

Board 

National Coordination Center 

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5 

6 

14 

15 

19 

26 

30 

37 

45 

46 

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In 2004, APD proved to the highest its 

competency and maturity in the field of work it 

has engaged for years. Our conjoined efforts in 

years and our electoral code campaigns, our 

perpetual monitoring on the implementation of 

the FOIA Bill (Law 544/2001) or the monitoring 

of the electoral expenses put a mark on our 

2004 activities. In this sense, one could say 

that, after our General Assembly established 

the organization's strategic directions, our 

activities evolved as being promptly and swiftly 

consistent with the challenges faced by the 

Romanian society. 

The pressure of the situations we got involved 

in compelled us to utilize atypical means of 

reaction. Only by doing so were we able to 

contribute to the modification of several laws 

regulating the organization of elections, at a 

moment when political parties had failed to do 

so. This consisted of three months of egregious 

pressures. Although we had signaled that 

electoral fraud is possible, we discovered that 

the divide between possible and concrete is a 

feeble one, easily surpassable if confronted 

with tight elections and, on the background of a 

pernicious legislation. 

Our strategy to monitor the electoral process in 

rural environments determined our actions. 

The deplorable organization of elections, the 

influence and constant abuse on the part of 

local public administration (LPA) all along the 

electoral process, including on the very day of 

elections, obliged us to have strict and 

immediate reactions to these frauds. In 2004, 

we were for the first time able to freely monitor 

parliamentary and presidential elections. We 

thus discovered, through these observation 

campaigns, facts that we had merely impinged 

on in the past: for 14 years, parliamentary 

elections had been neither completely free nor 

totally fair. The unbalanced Romanian political 

system and the generalized corruption were 

made possible by this state of affairs. Since its 

birth in 1990, our Association sought to stop 

exactly these types of practices. What we 

realized between October, 

2004 and 

December, 

2004 only represented a reduced 

and delayed reparation. In terms of electoral 

procedures, the idea of having a clear reform 

still conjugates with the future tense. 

Nevertheless, we have learned the truth: we 

can influence the process. 

After the change of presidents in December, 

2004 and the promotion of a new parliamentary 

majority by the newly elected President, 

Romanian political life transformed. The side 

effects resulting from the holding of both 

parliamentary and presidential elections at the 

same time brought about a residual and latent 

crisis Romanian political system has 

extensively experienced hitherto: the 

institutional crisis of the regime. The subliminal 

conflict between the two axis of the Executive 

(the President and the Cabinet) existing even 

in the period of unilateral power sharing (with 

reference to the interactions between the 

parliamentary majority, the President, and the 

Cabinet) 

risks to take the form of an openly held 

institutional confrontation. A postponing to the 

resolution of this constitutional tension - the 

President vs. Cabinet issue - menaces to fight 

back. For the first time after 1990, the President 

does not belong to the party winning the 

relative majority in Parliament. 

In this new context, APD's objectives have to 

be accomodated. If, from a political-sided 

perspective, 2005 seemed to bring about a 

new political formula, the issue of bipolarization 

and the evolution of parties and alliances of all 

sorts would not be conducive to the 

consolidation of the trend. Moreover, the two 

leading political entities in top of the winners' 

list in the last parliamentary elections, DA 

Alliance and the Social Democratic Party 

(SDP), with 68% of the votes and 83% of the 

seats, did not follow-in their political evolution -

the subsequent direction the electorate 

indicated. DA Alliance represents merely an 

electoral formula and SDP is still in a quest for 

finding its equilibrium. Opinion polls tend to 

display, beside the differences in party 

preferences, a propensity towards bipolarism. 

Thanks to this tendency, Greater Romania 

Party could not take advantage of the newly 

emerged political context, gaining petty scores 

in terms of voting intentions. The evolution of 

the public opinion obliges us to a strategy of 

reaction with regards to the existing party 

system and its specificities. 

However, this political conjuncture displayed 

its steep limits. The Premier, a representative 

of the Alliance, was invested in office but the 

problems theAlliance is experiencing, rooted in 

its formula, rapidly became manifest. The 

incapacity to strike a political compromise in 

2004 excessively protracted the electoral 

confrontation. Furthermore, institutional 

ambiguity became the label of this 

government. Inconsistencies in government, 

bound collaboration, authority-related 

conflicts, all these revealed to the public 

opinion that the Alliance is merely improvising. 

The coalition formula put in place by the 

Alliance did not go in favor of a public policy 

implementation; rather, it was conductive to 

assigning personal acquaintances in public 

key-positions. The politicization of public 

offices maintained in this period, but it was 

rather variedly waged. 

The year 2004 was the proof that, in 15 years 

since the first elections taking place in postcommunist 

Romania, the electorate has 

changed. The capacity of political parties to 

manipulate the options of the electorate 

significantly decreased. Beyond the contextual 

and often counter-productive pressure coming 

from the media, beyond the stimulation of 

political migration at the local level, beyond the 

political unbalance, the electorate has finally 

understood its role. Being only a spectator of 

the political game in the previous years, the 

Romanian electorate mobilized itself, not in 

supporting a party or other, but rather in 

arbitrating the political arena. 

All these arguments constitute reasons 

enough to refer to APD and its role in Romania 

as being a very important one. Citizens offered 

us their support, volunteers proved to be highly 

motivated during our public actions, the 

principles of democracy and the rule of law 

shifted from theory to practice. All these honor 

us and oblige us to become even better in the 

future. Democratic participation is still feeble, 

corruption is holding back to the electoral 

assault, political clientelism reproduces itself 

even with alternations in government, poverty 

induces extremist and intolerant attitudes, and 

affects 

the satisfaction with democracy. These 

are enough reasons for APD to continue, at 

least to the same pace, its activity. Our success 

depends only on our capacity to mobilize 

ourselves. 

Cristian Pîrvulescu

Period 

sector, as well as magistrature, academic 

March, 2004 - March, 2006 

environments, 

and other fields manifestly 

interested in the topic. 

Goal 

Consolidating the standards of quality, 

transparency and integrity of the Local Public 

Administration, as well as enforcing its ability to 

properly manage local issues. 

Involved Cities/ Clubs 

Arad, Bacău, Braşov, Cluj-Napoca, Drăgăşani, 

Oneşti, Râmnicu-Vâlcea, Sibiu, Timişoara, 

Turda. 

Objectives 

Developing a process of improving the activity 

of Local Public Administration in 10 to 12 

Romanian cities, in order to raise the 

anticorruption measures and the transparency 

of the activity of the Local Public 

Administration. 

Achievements 

The program started with the organization of 

Local Integrity Groups (LIG) in each of the 

cities involved in the project. The members of 

these groups were recruited from the 

representatives of various sectors of activity: 

local administration, NGOs, media, business 

One of the most complex activities was 

embarking upon a reseach concerning the 

level of transparency and integrity of the local 

public administration in the cities involved in 

the project. The research was based on 

interviewing resource-persons and aimed at 

interpreting the data collected with these 

interviews in accordance with four indicators: 

access to information; 

transparency of the decision-making 

process; 

public participation; 

integrity. 

The complete report, realized in partnership 

with Transparency International - Romania, 

includes a general overview on the integrity 

issue of the local public administration and also 

a detailed analysis of the integrity aspect in 

each of theese cities. For the entire research, 

please visit www.apd.ro. 

In 2005, LIG members attended a training on 

strategic planning that included the evaluation 

of priorities, and the elaboration of Strategies 

for Local Integrity, strategies that were later 

forwarded for adoption to local authorities. 

After the strategy planning activities, LIGs 

started the advocacy campaigns for the 

adoption of the Strategies by the Local 

Councils. This process varied, to a great 

degree, from one city to another, the success of 

the advocacy campaigns being dependent on 

the availability of the mayor in each city to 

support the project. Only in one city - Braşov - 

was the Strategy explicitly rejected, although 

the mayor suggested the City Hall planned to 

produce one strategy of its own. 

Eventually, out of ten cities, five local 

authorities adopted the Strategy designed by 

LIGs: Bacău, Drăgăşani, Oneşti, Râmnicu- 

Vâlcea, Turda. In Timişoara, specific measures 

from the Strategy designed by the LIG (such as 

the establishment of strict and clear limits for 

the gifts that must be declared by the civil 

servants or the restructuring of the public 

acquisitions department) were directly 

adopted. Furthermore, the Sibiu Local Council 

included in its new internal regulation 

document several provisions suggested by the 

LIG through its strategy.

increasing the level of transparency of 

public acquisitions; 

The project team also started, in 2005, the work 

on the material that presents the experiences 

accumulated during the implementation of the 

project. The publication, called 'Who IsAfraid of 

Integrity?' presents several major challenges 

related to integrity and suggests realistic 

methods for improving integrity in the local 

public administration. This material represents 

an excellent resource for all who plan to 

implement a similar project because it is a 

handbook with all the steps that must be taken 

during such a project. 

Conferen ce within the project Integrity in Local Public Administration (Sinaia, February, 

2005) 

In Arad and Cluj-Napoca, the advocacy 

campaign for the adoption of the strategies is 

still running, and in Cluj-Napoca local 

authorities expressed their intention to include 

the Strategy for Local Integrity in the 

Development Strategy of the city. 

The main instruments included in the 

strategies adopted by the local councils are: 

informing citizens on the declarations of 

income and statements of interest of the 

local counselors; 

displaying annual activity reports of the 

local counselors; 

improving the level of citizen information 

on the activity of local authorities; 

redefining the organizational structure of 

the City Hall by opening the 'unique 

office'; 

organizing regular meetings with Citizen 

Consultative Committees at the level of 

various neighborhoods; 

informing citizens, on a trimestrial basis, 

on public expenses in their communities; 

verifying incompatibilities; 

adopting declarations against political 

migration; 

involving citizens in the decision-making 

process; 

developing work groups for consolidating 

the public-private partnership; 

The activities planned for 2006 include the 

finalizing of the research for and the printing of 

the material 'Who Is Afraid of Integrity?' and the 

organization of a final conference on the 

project. This final conference is aimed at 

evaluating the way in which the project was 

implemented in the 10 cities, at drawing 

conclusions on the implementation of the 

project, and at formulating and discussing 

future plans. 

Donor 

MATRA Program of the Dutch Ministry of 

Foreign Affairs through TransFORMA 

Foundation 

Budget 

104,825 USD 

Partners 

TransFORMA Foundation, Transparency 

International - Romania

Period 

January - December, 2005 


Braşov 

Objectives 

expanding the DIALOGUE network in the 

Tărlungeni commune; 

improving the level of information of 3,000 

citizens in Braşov and 500 in Tărlungeni 

on the methods of involving citizens in the 

decision-making process at the local 

level; 

identifying, recruiting, and training 25 

opinion leaders in two neighborhoods of 

Braşov in order to form a Citizen 

Consultative Committee made up of 

citizens interested in developing 

programs with high impact on their 

communities; 

improving local public services through 

involving members of the Citizen 

Consultative Committees in the target 

neighborhoods in drafting and 

implementing the optimization plan (in 

partnership with the local public 

administration). 

Target Groups 

presidents and administrators of 

householders' associations in two 

neighborhoods of Braşov. They were to 

be involved in identifying and resolving 

the malfunctioning aspects of a public 

service. Opinion leaders and citizens 

were to be informed on the necessity of 

 

 

 

participating to the decision-making 

process; 

representatives of the local public 

administration, members of the 

specialized departments in the City Hall 

as well as in the independent structures 

that administer public services 

subordinated to the Local Council. 

Furthermore, the project implied the 

involvement of local counselors, 

members of the special commissions, 

which supervise the public service 

chosen to be improved; 

a secondary target group was 

represented by the media in Braşov that 

was to be involved in the promotion of the 

project and in the information of citizens 

on the role and duties of local public 

administration; 

the project also targeted 200 citizens in 

Tărlungeni that would participate to the 

discovery and prioritizing of the problems 

existing at the local level. 

Achievements 

Within the framework of this project, activities 

related to Universal Children's Day through 

the Craiter Citizen Consultative Committee 

were run and a monitoring campaign on the 

implementation of Law 544/2001 (Law on Free 

Access to Information of Public Interest) was 

initiated. 

We identified the problems citizens living in 

Braşov have through the Citizen Advice 

Bureau Braşov (CAB Braşov), which produced 

a report synthesizing 

the problems its 

beneficiaries encountered during the period 

between January and May, 2005. 

Thus, on June 29, 2005, the Braşov Prefecture 

hosted a meeting with representatives of local 

public institutions from Braşov, meeting that 

was also attended by a representative of the 

Institute for Public Policy. Furthermore, 

representatives of the householders' 

associations, opinion leaders and 

representatives from Citizens Advice Bureaux 

in the region were invited. 

Most problems mentioned by citizens and 

inventoried in the report produced by CAB 

Braşov, had as a main source flaws in the 

communication between public institutions and 

citizens. Various public institutions admitted 

having great difficulties in delivering public 

information to citizens. Thus, we decided to 

focus on improving the public relations 

department. Improving this service would 

quicken the reduction of the complaints 

addressed by citizens and would generate a 

growth in the degree of trust citizens have in 

public institutions through the strengthening of 

transparency of their activities. 

Due to the generalized character of this 

phenomenon of malfunctioning 

communication, we established, together with 

the working group, a list of 38 institutions that 

were to be monitored and evaluated in order to 

ascertain whether their communication 

departments were organized according to the 

Law 544/2001 provisions or not. These 

institutions were: County Council, Local 

Government Office, Agency for Environment 

Protection, County Agency for Employment, 

Romanian Road Authority, Braşov County 

Health Insurance House, County Pension 

House, General Direction of Public Finances,

Direction for Dialogue, Family and Social 

Solidarity, General Direction for Public Health, 

Sanitary-Veterinary Direction, County 

Direction for Agriculture and Rural 

Development, Direction for Sports, Direction 

for Forestry, Regional Direction for Customs, 

Territorial Labour Inspectorate, County 

Inspectorate for Education, Territorial 

Inspectorate for Forestry and Cynegetical 

Regulations, Institute for Statistics and 

Economic Studies, County Office for 

Agricultural Assistance, County Office for 

Cadastre, Geodesy and Land Registry, County 

Office for Consumer's 

Protection, Judicature, 

Tribunal, Court of Appeal, Judicature 

Prosecutor' 

s Office, Tribunal Prosecutor' 

s 

Office, Court of Appeal Prosecutors Office, 

Ombudsman, National Anticorruption 

Prosecutor' s Office - Braşov Territorial Office, 

Romanian Service for Information, County 

Military Center, Gendarmes Inspectorate, 

'Ţara Bârsei' Inspectorate for Emergency 

Situations, Braşov Police, County Police 

Inspectorate, Inspection of Constructions, 

Environmental Guard. 

TĂRLUNGENI Dialogue Citizen Initiative 

in the Tărlungeni Commune 

The DIALOGUE Program was widened to the 

Tărlungeni commune, Braşov County, a 

commune in which an initiative group 

determined to run its activities to help develop 

the community was formed. 

Tărlungeni is a commune ethnically 

heterogenous, with very diverse social 

problems: a high unemployment rate, a large 

Roma community etc. Moreover, the 

inhabitants of the Tărlungeni commune notified 

the Citizens Advice Bureau that is run by 

Asociaţia Pro Democraţia Club Braşov on 

multiple malfunctionings in the activity of the 

local public administration, among which the 

failure to comply with the provisions of the 

Laws 544/2001 and 52/2003. 

Membership in the initiative group: leader - 

Ruxandra Dumitrescu; members: Valentina 

Blanu, Lenke Boros, Ştefan Ciobanu, Corina 

Fejer, Alexandru Jica, Andrada Munteanu, 

Raluca Şoană, Rareş Şoană, Andreea Vajda, 

Gabriel Bercea, Mihai Bercea, Bebe Fejer, 

Alice Dumitru, Ioana Sinta. The initiative group 

benefits from the support of the local counselor 

Ligia Şoană. 

The activities include: 

Assistance for obtaining the statuts of legal 

body 

The initiative group in Tărlungeni commune, 

Zizin village, Braşov County, was assisted in 

the process of obtaining the statuts of legal 

body. The newly founded organization will be 

named 'Asociaţia Ambasadorii Zizinului'. Thus, 

the initiative group was assisted in the process 

of drafting its statute, and the exact steps that 

need to be followed. This process will soon be 

completed. 

Assessing community needs 

A questionnaire was conceived in order to 

assess 

the needs of the community in 

Tărlungeni, to monitor the knowledge on the 

Laws 52/2003 (Law on the Transparency of the 

Decision Making Process) and 544/2001 (Law 

on Free Acess to Information of Public 

Interest), to monitor their implementation, and 

the degree of citizen trust in the 


administration (both elected and named). The 

questionnaire is being applied on 200 persons, 

proportionally with the number of inhabitants of 

each village (Zizin village - 57 questionnaires, 

Tărlungeni village - 93 questionnaires, 

Purcăreni village - 41 questionnaires, Cărpiniş 

village - 9 questionnaires). The interviewed 

persons are adults (having the right to vote) 

with the residence in Tărlungeni. The field 

interviewers are volunteers, members of the 

citizen initiative group. 

Monitoring the implementation of FOIA Law 

The local public administration in Tărlungeni 

developed a methodology for monitoring the 

implementation of Law 544/2001 (Law on Free 

Acess to Information of Public Interest). The 

monitoring campaign was initiated in January 

2005. It is aimed at testing the local public 

administration level of transparency towards 

the information delivered according to the 

provisions of the Law 544/2001. 

Donor 

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation 

Budget 

10,750 USD 

Partners 

Within the DIALOGUE network: 

Sibiu Community Foundation - main 

contractor, Focşani Association for 

Communitarian Partnership, Miercurea Ciuc 

EtnoculturalAssociation

Period 

January, 2005 - January, 2006 

Objectives 

improving the abilities/skills of five civil 

servants and local counselors in Braşov 

on the implementation of Law 52/2003 on 

Transparency of the Decision Making 

Process in Public Administration and of 

the Law 544/2001 on Free Access to 

Information of Public Interest (FOIALaw); 

improving the level of information of 1,000 

citizens on the Laws 52/2003 and 

544/2001 and the budgetary drafting and 

execution methods for Braşov; 

ensuring, for each trimester, a public 

consultation on the local decisions of 

public interest for Braşov. 

Achievements 

The present project was implemented within 

the DIALOGUE network, and had as a project 

coordinator the Sibiu Community Foundation. 

Within the project, the following activities were 

developed: 

Work group meetings 

Within this project, the work group had two 

meetings for the drafting of the plan of 

activities. 

Public debates 

Braşov City Hall organized four public debates 

without any reference to Law 52/2003. The 

debates organized o n March 17, 21, 23, 

and 24 

were attended by 350 persons. 

parking system in Braşov, and one on June 23, 

2005 on the levy tax and local taxes for 2006. 

Upon citizens' request, the Agency for 

Environment Protection organized, on 

September 21, 2005 a debate for the 

arrangement of a space. 

Informative materials 

Representatives of Club APD Braşov 

participated to the production of the leaflet on 

Law 52/2003 (Law on Transparency of the 

Decision Making Process in Local Public 

Administration) for Kolping Romania and to the 

distribution, through caravans, of 1,000 copies 

in Braşov County. 

Club APD Braşov members produced the 

brochure “How Was the Money of Braşov 

Spent. Budget Execution in 2004” and 

distributed 1,000 copies through Club APD 

Braşov, the Center of Information for Citizens, 

Braşov, 

Braşov City Hall and the Braşov 

County Council. 

As a part of this project, the Sibiu Community 

Foundation printed 1,000 flyers for each city 

involved in the Dialogue Project, that are aimed 

at informing citizens on the provisions of Law 

544/2001 (Law on Free Acess to Information of 

Public Interest) and Law 52/2003 (Law on 

Transparency of the Decision Making Process 

in Local Public Administration). They were 

distributed through Club APD Braşov and the 

Center of Information for Citizens within the 

Braşov City Hall. 

Monitoring the implementation of Law 

571/2004 

Within the same project, with the help of the 

Law 544/2001 (FOIA Law) , a monitoring 

campaign was run on the Law 571/2004 on the 

Upon the request of Club APD Braşov, Braşov 

City Hall organized two debates: one on April 

28, 2005 on the provisions regulating the 

Training within the project Efficient Administration through Public Participation

Protection of Whistleblowers within Public 

Institutions and Authorities. The results of the 

report were made public through the press 

conference held on December 15, 2005. 

Donor 

National Endowment for Democracy 

Budget 

8,210 USD 

Partners 

Sibiu Community Foundation - main 

contractor, Focşani Association for 

Communitarian Partnership 

In 2005, Club APD Braşov representatives 

facilitated a series of workshops on public 

participation in Poiana Braşov (Braşov County) 

between May 20-22, 2005, in Băile Olăneşti 

(Vâlcea County), between July 15-17, 2005, 

and in Greşu (Vrancea County), between 

November 6-8, 2005. 

The aim of these workshops was to transfer 

knowledge and to facilitate the exchange of 

experience on public participation with the 

representatives of local public administration in 

small communities in Braşov, Vâlcea and 

Vrancea counties. 

The workshops focused on the following 

topics: the concept of citizen participation; Law 

52/2003 on Transparency of the Decision 

Making Process in Local Public Administration: 

general presentation; minimum requirements 

that public administration authorities should 

comply with when informing citizens, in 

accordance with the provisions of Law 

52/2003; informing citizens, and the free 

access to information of public interest in 

accordance with Law 544/2001 (FOIA Law) ; 

applying the principle of consultation of citizens 

and legally constituted associations; methods 

of applying into practice the principle of active 

citizen participation to the decision making 

process. 

The workshop held in Braşov County was 

attended by 26 representatives of the local 

public administration in nine small 

communities of the county and of the Braşov 

County Council. The participants were 

members of the local councils and civil 

servants assigned with the implementation of 

the Laws 52/2003 and 544/2001. 

The workshop in Vâlcea had 28 participants: 


administration in 10 small communities in 

Vâlcea County, members of the local councils 

and civil servants assigned with the 

implementation of the Laws 52/2003 and 

544/2001. 

The workshop in Vrancea County was 

attended by 19 persons: representatives of the 

local public administration in nine small 

communities of the county, members of the 

local councils and civil servants assigned with 

the implementation of the Laws 52/2003 and 

544/2001. 

Donor 

KonradAdenauer Foundation - Romania Office 

Period 

March - June, 2005 

Goal 

Strengthening citizen participation in the 

decision making process at the local level in 

Bosnia Herzegovina and Romania by using 

democratic deliberative forums, but also by 

exchanging experiences in promoting citizen 

participation in the two countries. 

Objectives 

experimenting citizen involvement in the 

decision making process at the local level 

and in identifying and solving specific 

problems of the community; 

strengthening cooperation between local 

institutions and citizens in the decision 

making process; 

developing prior experiences in the field 

of citizen involvement by using a specific 

method - the deliberative forum.

Achievements 

Through this project, Club APD Cluj-Napoca 

wanted to contribute to the usage of 

deliberative forums as a means of citizen 

consultation before local decisions are taken in 

the two countries. 

The international seminar held in Sinaia, in 

May 2005, offered its participants the 

opportunity of learning from the experience of 

other people that had been involved in projects 

related to citizen participation. It thus focused 

on bringing together representatives of local 

nongovernmental organizations and public 

administration from Carei, Zalău, Cluj, Baia 

Mare, and Oradea, in Romania, and Zvornik, 

Banjaluka, Mostar Bihac, and Tuzla in Bosnia- 

Herţegovina. 

The workshop tackled issues such as 

identifying ways through which 

nongovernmental organizations and public 

institutions involve citizens in the decisionmaking 

process, and ways through which this 

process can be improved in the two countries. 

For developing the sustainability component, 

the partner organizations held a deliberative 

forum on corruption. This deliberative forum 

was attended by participants from both 

countries and consisted in the establishment of 

a common action plan for the municipalities 

from both countries. 

Donor 

Open Society Foundation, through the East- 

East Program 

Budget 

10,450 USD ( 9,500 USD - OSF, 950 USD - 

ClubAPD 

Cluj-Napoca) 

Parteners 

Civitas for Civil Society Foundation, Cluj- 

Napoca, Helsinki Committee, Tuzla and 

Banjaluka 

Period 

November, 2004 - October, 2005 

Objectives 

To provide detailed information on the role, 

structure, and attributions of local public 

institutions to 1, 500 citizens in the Municipality 

of Braşov and to improve access to information 

and advice services in the following domains: 

social assistance, social insurance, labor, civil 

rights and duties, taxation, public services, 

public health, child protection, consumer's 

protection, property regime, education, and 

notary procedures. 

CAB Services 

Specialized information and advice 

services the solicitant will be assisted by 

a counselor specialized in the respective 

field or on that particular matter; 

Support the solicitant will be assisted in 

preparing the documentation needed to 

solve his/hers problem; 

Representation the solicitant will be 

represented before the public authorities 

in order to solve his/hers problem. 

Domains 

health, social assistance, social 

insurance, labor, consumer's protection; 

civil rights and duties, property regime, 

taxation, education, notary procedures, 

child protection, and public services. 

Project achievements 

A total number of 329 citizens were informed 

and counseled in accordance with CAB's 

principles: independence, impartiality, free of 

charge services and confidentiality. Most of the 

requests were in the following domains: civil 

rights and duties (102), public services (80), 

property regime (41), and social insurance 

(34). 

A brochure, entitled 'Ghidul 

cetăţeanului' 

(Citizen's Guide), was published in 1,500 

copies. The brochure is structured as follows: 

public administration authorities, citizens' 

participation to the public decision-making 

process, public service, services run by the 

Braşov City Hall, other institutions providing 

services to the public, presentation of the 

Citizens Advice Bureau, presentation of 

Asociaţia Pro Democraţia, useful contacts. The 

brochure also contains information on the local 

elected representatives contact details and 

the committees they are part of. The material in 

Romanian is available in electronic format on 

www.apd.ro. 

Furthermore, four informative sessions 

organized: 

one session, in cooperation with the Civil 

Society Development Foundation, was 

focused on the PHARE 2003/005- 

551.01.05/ 02.02 financing program, and 

aimed at informing CABs in the Center 

Region on the topic. Representatives of 

22 nongovernmental organizations 

attended the session. 

one informative session was held on the 

topic 'A Global World, An Opportunity for 

the Young', and had as a target group the 

youth. During this session, subjects such 

as opportunities to study and work in the 

European Union and the United States 

were touched upon. 

one information session on the topic 

'Working Abroad What Must One Know'. 

Among the invited speakers we could 

mention Mrs. Dana Pascu, representing 

the Territorial Labor Inspectorate, and 

Mrs. Gabriela Brănescu, representing the

Braşov County Pension House. During 

the session, the participants learned 

about the rights of persons working 

abroad, international recognition of 

diplomas etc. 

one information session on the topic 

'Standards a Necessary Step towards 

European Integration' , organized in 

partnership with the Braşov Chamber of 

Commerce and Industry. This session 

was targeted at companies and 

authorized physical persons and was 

attended by 33 representatives of 

economic agents. 

In April, 2005 the CAB Braşov was visited by 

Mr. Jonathan Scheele, Head of Delegation of 

the European Commission in Romania. 

Donor 

Balkan Trust for Democracy 

Budget 

17,534 USD 

Period 

2005 - 2007 

Goal 

Promoting youth participation in the decision 

making process on local public issues that are 

of concern for this category of citizens. 


Timişoara 

Objectives 

empowerment of youth in identifying and 

solving its own problems; 

improvement of the degree of 

participation of youth in identifying and 

solving the problems of the local 

community; 

involvement of youth in partnerships with 

local authorities on projects of local 

development. 

Achievements 

The second Local Youth Council of Timişoara 

was created and the youngsters were assisted 

in initiating and running their activities. 

The mission of the Local Youth Council of 

Timişoara is to ensure the representation of 

youth in its community, by providing teenagers 

with the opportunity to express their opinions 

and to promote their own projects. 

Meeting of the Local Youth Council of Timişoara 

The Local Youth Council of Timişoara was 

formed through elections organized in 

accordance with the provisions of an electoral 

law that considered each school as being a 

constituency. The Local Youth Council of 

Timişoara unites 32 teenagers from IX-X 

grades, and has a two year mandate. 

Within this project, the youngsters are offered 

the possibility to understand the mechanisms 

of democratic elections, the chance to explore 

skills and abilities that are rarely emphasized in 

the traditional school-family system such as 

their civic behaivor, their status of citizens, and 

of members in the local community to which 

they belong. 

Donor 

Timişoara Local Council and the Timiş County 

Youth Department 

Partners 

MasterForum Association - main contractor, 

Intercultural Institute Timişoara, Timişoara City 

Hall, Timişoara Local Council, Timiş County 

School Inspectorate, Timiş County Youth 

Department

Period 

October - December, 2005 

Goal 

Improving the degree of citizen involvement in 

the decision making process at the local public 

administration level by creating a mechanism 

through which citizens could be constantly 

consulted. 


Cluj-Napoca 

Objectives 

forming Citizen Consultative Committees 

in the municipality of Cluj-Napoca; 

 

 

facilitating the relations between these 

committees and structures of the local 

public administration (Local Council, 

Mayor, administrative services 

subordinated to the Mayor and the Local 

Council); 

institutionalizing specific procedures for 

consulting the Citizen Consultative 

Committees in the decision making 

process at the level of the local public 

administration. 

Achievements 

Through this project, Club APD Cluj-Napoca 

succeeded in forming Citizen Consultative 

Committees at the level of four neighborhoods 

of Cluj-Napoca and in assisting them during the 

meetings, meetings that were also attended by 


administration with assignments in the fields 

signaled by citizens as being malfunctioning. 

Donor 

Cluj-Napoca Local Council 

Budget 

1,378 USD 

Partners 

Cluj-Napoca City Hall

Asociaţia Pro Democraţia organized, in 

collaboration with the Ministry of Justice, a 

consultation campaign on the methods to be 

used for improving legislative provisions on 

political parties and electoral campaigns 

financing. 

Thus, the two partners organized a series of 

roundtables in Cluj-Napoca (October 28), Galaţi 

(November 4), Craiova (November 11), Iaşi 

(November 18), and Timişoara (November 25), 

through which they aimed to offer the opportunity 

for debate to Senators and Deputies, local 

leaders of political parties, representatives of the 

business sector, civil society representatives, 

experts, media representatives. 

The two initiators considered this to be a perfect 

opportunity for gathering suggestions on ways of 

improving legislation on the financing of the 

political life in Romania, so as to render the 

interaction between the business sector and 

politicians more transparent and consistent with 

the public interest. 

The main debated aspects were: 

the clarification of the 43/2003 Law 

provisions on political parties and electoral 

campaigns financing (example: discounts 

made by service providers, abuses of public 

resources during electoral campaigns) and 

the discussion on the necessity of having 

clear methodological provisions; 

reforming the system on public subsidies for 

political parties, by taking into account the 

necessity of transparency for all forms of 

political party financing and the results 

obtained during the entire electoral cycle; 

introducing sanctions for grave law 

infringements; 

stimulating the efficiency and responsibility 

of the control body; 

improving the elements of transparency. 

The preoccupations for the modification of the 

legislation regulating this field fall within the 

efforts that both the authorities and the civil 

society have done to fight against corruption 

since the modification of the legislation on 

political parties financing is a priority of the 

NationalAnticorruption Strategy for 2005-2007. 

The result of the efforts the two partners invested 

in the project consisted of the adoption by the 

Parliament - with some modifications - of the 

project law produced by the Ministry of Justice 

with the support of Asociaţia Pro Democraţia. 

Despite some modifications brought during its 

course through the Parliament - which Asociaţia 

Pro Democraţia considers to be rather 

problematic - the adopted law represents an 

important step forward in the improvement of the 

conditions regulating the political parties and 

electoral campaigns financing through the 

introduction of: specific provisions on the 

reduction of the party membership fee and its 

transparency; the designation of the Permanent 

Electoral Authority instead of the Court of 

Accounts as the control body; the harshening of 

sanctions for infringements of the law.

Period 

October, 2005 - June, 2006 

Goal 

Determining an efficient electoral reform in 

Romania so the whole electoral process will be 

significantly improved and citizens' 

representatives in local administration and 

Parliament will be elected based on a voting 

system agreed by the majority of the 

population. 

Objectives 

preparing the whole documentation 

needed for the support of the debates on 

the electoral reform in Romania; 

drafting an Electoral Code legislative 

proposal that will tackle issues such as: 

the legislative technique, organization 

and management of the electoral 

process, as well as the modification of the 

voting system to be used for local 

 

elections and the one to be used for 

legislative elections; 

determining the adoption of the Electoral 

Code legislative proposal by the two 

Chambers of the Parliament. 

This project is being implemented by the 

National Center of Coordination and by the 

Regional Centers of Resources of Asociaţia 

Pro Democraţia. 

The first project activities consisted of the 

research for and beginning of the analysis for 

the editing of a study on the various electoral 

systems in the European Union Member 

States, plus the ones that will join in 2007 

(Bulgaria and Romania), but also for the 

Electoral Code legislative proposal. 

The research for these two materials was 

accompanied by the activity planning for the 

promotion of the materials among citizens, 

journalists, researchers, analysts, as well as 

political parties' representatives, in order to 

bring the debate on the Romanian electoral 

reform high on the Romanian public agenda. 

Thus, in 2006, the project activities will focus on 

the editing of the two researches and on the 

promotion of the Electoral Code drafted by 

Asociaţia Pro Democraţia. Furthermore, a very 

important part of the project activities will focus 

on gaining the support of the political parties in 

order to determine the enactment of the 

Electoral Code proposed by Asociaţia Pro 

Democraţia by the Romanian Parliament. 

Donor 

National Democratic Institute for International 

Affairs 

Budget 

9,900 USD 

Asociaţia Pro Democraţia and Konrad 

Adenauer Foundation organized, on June 16 

and 17, 2005, a conference with the title 'The 

Electoral Reform - a Salient Subject for 15 

Years'. The purpose of the conference was to 

create and offer an efficient framework for 

debate to the representatives of various 

political parties, civic organizations, political 

analysts, academia representatives, experts 

on electoral design, journalists etc. 

The debate, moderated by Mr. Cristian 

Pîrvulescu, President of Asociaţia Pro 

Democraţia, and by Mr. Gunther Dill, Director of 

Konrad Adenauer Foundation - Romania 

Office, was attended by Mr. Stefan Krause 

OSCE/ODIHR Expert, Mrs. Marina Popescu - 

Researcher, University of Essex and 

'International Fellowship Fellow' of Open 

Society Institute, Mr. Alexandru Radu - Vicepresident, 

Permanent Electoral Authority, Mr. 

Hermann Schmitt - Professor, University of 

Mannheim, Mrs. Frances Millard - Professor, 

University of Essex, Mr. Gabor Toka - 

Professor, Central European University, 

Budapest, Mr. Cristian Preda - Lect. Dr. Univ., 

Dean, Faculty of Political Science, University of 

Bucharest, Mrs. Daniela Popa - Conservative 

Party Deputy, Vice-president of the Chamber of 

Deputies and Mrs. Nicoleta Fotiade - Program 

Coordinator, Media Monitoring Agency - 

Academia Caţavencu. 

All participants agreed on the necessity to have 

a structural reform of the Romanian electoral 

system. However, divergent points of view 

arouse regarding the way the reform should be

made. The experts presented a series of 

European electoral systems, pointing out the 

pluses and minuses of each type of system. 

From this perspective, the conference proved 

its utility since it allowed the presentation of 

multiple points of view. Furthermore, it 

represented another opportunity for 

ascertaining the preferencies of Romanian 

politicians on such an important topic. 

Donor 


Affairs 

Budget 

3,120 USD 

Partner 

KonradAdenauer Foundation - Romania Office 

Period 

2005 

Goal 

Offering informational resources necessary to 

citizens interested to participate to the 

Romanian public life, as well as to civil servants 

and politicians, in order to improve their 

relationship with the citizens. 

Involved Cities / Clubs 

Timişoara 

Objectives 

improving the degree of citizen civic 

participation by delivering concrete 

instruments of interaction with the public 

administration and opportunities for 

manifestation within the public realm; 

improving, in various aspects, the 

communication between citizens and 

state institutions on the one hand, and the 

organized structures of the civil society, 

on the other. 

resources including: contact details of public 

institutions (http://resurse-pentrudemocratie.org/coordonate.php), 

political 

parties and nongovernmental organizations in 

Romania, useful pieces of legislation for 

citizens that encounter specific civic problems 

as well as clear and simple descriptions of 

theoretical concepts related to politics. 

Achievements 

For the year 2005, the project consisted in the 

maintenance and improvement of a webpage 

(http://resurse-pentru-democratie.org) with 

Main page of the legislation section on the "Resources for Democracy" portal

Since the product of this project is a webpage, 

two of the classical indicators for the evaluation 

beneficiaries - most of them supportive - was of 

128. 

of its impact are the registered traffic and the 

written feedback received from surfers. Thus, 

Donor 

Local Council of Timişoara 

cummulated, all sections of the website 

benefited from 196,336 visits in 2005, and the Budget 

number of messages received from the 172 USD 

Partners 

Local Council of Timişoara and SC Pro Finance 

SRL 

Note 

The project was initiated in 2003, and runs for 

an unlimited period of time. 

Period 

January, 2005 - December, 2005 

Goal 

Increasing the degree of transparency of public 

offices in local public administration in Vrancea 

County. 


Focşani 

Objectives 

evaluating the transparency standards in 

29 villages in Vrancea County, by 

considering the methods through which 

public financial resources are distributed; 

evaluating the responsibility and 

transparency standards by considering 

the declarations of income and 

statements of interest on the level of 

Vrancea County Council. 

Achievements 

The project team evaluated the compliance 

with and implementation of the FOIA Law (Law 

544/2001 - Law on FreeAcess to Information of 

Public Interest) by the City Halls of the following 

localities in Vrancea County: Bordeşti, 

Broşteni, Dumbrăveni, Andreiaşu de Jos, 

Corbiţa, Ploscuţeni, Homocea, Străoane, 

Bârseşti, Tulnici, Boloteşti, Coteşti, Vidra, 

Dumitreşti, Ciorăşti, Cârligele, Măicăneşti, 

Gugeşti, Fitioneşti, Bilieşti, Gologanu, Jariştea, 

Gura Caliţei, Năruja, Câmpuri, Bogheşti, 

Garoafa, Băleşti. 

Following several administrative complaints 

submitted within the project, 11 City Halls were 

persuaded to make public the information on 

public acquisitions made in 2003 and in 2004. 

The monitoring of the local counselors' 

declarations of income and statements of 

interest made by Club APD Focşani in August 

2005 proved that five of the local counselors 

had violated the law on income control. Those 

counselors had not mentioned in their 

declarations the incomes received as payment 

from the Vrancea County Council in 2004. In 

accordance with the provisions of the Law 

215/2001 (the Public Administration Law) and 

Law 393/2004 (on the Status of Local Officials), 

these counselors had received money for 

attending council meetings. Following the 

monitorization, Mircea Dragoş Valentin, the 

Viceprefect of Vrancea County, publicly 

appologized and submitted a new declaration. 

Donor 

Self-financing

Period 

March - December, 2005 

Goal 

Institutionalizing internship as a method of 

formation and training for students by 

stimulating partnerships between universities 

and public institutions/authorities. 


Braşov, Buc harest, Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu, and 

Timişoara 

Objectives 

offering a first-hand experience that 

completes the theoretical knowledge of 

students that show a real interest in a 

future career as civils servants; 

assisting public institutions in their 

activities, by introducing a new mentality 

with the help of young students benefiting 

from a solid education in fields related to 

the activity of the mentioned institutions. 

Achievements 

In 2005, 40 interns were placed in central and 

local public institutions. An agreement was 

signed between the “Lucian Blaga” University 

of Sibiu and institutions of the local 

administration, in order to implement an 

internship program in the community of Sibiu. 

In addition, the foundations of a similar 

agreement with the Cluj-Napoca City Hall were 

laid. 

Each participant to the program was required 

to work 16 hours a week in a public institution. 

During the 10 months of the project, students 

attended debates and workshops on topics of 

their interest: human rights, voluntary work, 

public participation, access to public 

information, 

and project proposal drafting. 

Donor 


Budget 

31,569 USD 

Interns

Period 

February - October, 2005 

Goal 

Developing an active political culture through 

public debate on themes of interest for the 

society. 

Involved Cities/Clubs 

Focşani 

Objectives 

organizing a series of public conferences 

in Focşani with the participation of 

Romanian personalities; 

stimulating public debate on the following 

topics: civil society actions, national 

security vs. personal privacy, European 

values, the Romanian electoral system, 

and freedom of speech. 

Achievements 

Club APD Focşani organized four public 

conferences in Focşani, under the title 

' Democracy Lectures ', to which were invited 

public figures that had shown an increased 

interest in the process of democratic 

consolidation in Romania. 

On February 12, 2005 Mr. Cristian Pîrvulescu, 

President of APD, held a lecture entitled 

' Political Power and Civil Society in a 

Democratic State '. On this occasion, Mr. 

Marius Oprea, at that time researcher at the 

Institute for Recent History, lectured on the 

' Role and Place of Secret Services in 

accordance with the Rule of Law '. The same 

event hosted the launching moment of Mr. 

Marius Oprea's book ' Moştenitorii Securităţii' 

(Heirs of the Securitate) for the public in 

Focşani. The two debates were attended by 

more than 100 persons each. 

The second lecture was held on April 9, 2005 

and had as a main speaker Professor Tom 

Gallagher from Bradford University, United 

Kingdom. The title of the lecture was ' The 

European Union and the Democratization 

Process in Romania After 2000 '. At the same 

event, Mr. Cristian Pîrvulescu held a lecture 

entitled ' The Reform of the Electoral System in 

Romania '. More than 200 persons were 

present at the launching event for Mr. Tom 

Gallagher's book ' Theft of a Nation' 

for the 

public in Focşani. 

On May 28, 2005, the third lecture was held, 

with the title ' Freedom of the Press and the 

Rule of Law '. The speakers were Mr. Stelian 

Tănase, journalist, political analyst, 

and writer 

and Mr. Mircea Toma, executive director of the 

Media Monitoring Agency - Academia 

Caţavencu. At this event, in the presence of 

100 persons, Mr. Tănase launched his latest 

book, ' Clienţii lu' tanti Varvara '. 

On October 28, 2005, Club APD Focşani 

invited Mr. Robert Turcescu to moderate a 

debate on the topic ' Politics and the Media '. On 

this occasion, 230 persons witnessed the 

launching in Focşani of Mr. Turcescu's book 

' Dans de Bragadiru -Cum se vede România în 

direct ' (Bragadiru Dance - Romania Seen 

Live). 

Donor 

Local business companies 

Budget 

789 USD 

Partners 

Ziarul de Vrancea, Diplomatic TV Focşani, 

Humanitas Publishing House, Polirom 

Publishing House 

Ionel Sârbu, 

Mircea Toma, 

and Stelian 

Tănase 

on 

freedom of 

the press 

and the 

rule of law

Period 

July - December, 2005 

Goal 

Stimulating the involvement of youth in the life 

of the local community. 


Brăila 

Objectives 

creating a local youth Coalition, with the 

support and involvement of at least eight 

local institutions and organizations that 

have an active role in the community life; 

organizing four pilot interactive debates in 

high schools in Brăila during IXth grade 

counselling classes, with presentations 

on volunteering and involvment in the 

civic life and their benefits for personal 

development and for durable 

development of the community in Brăila; 

creating a network for the youngsters that 

are already involved in NGO structures, 

on the occasion of an NGO Fair in Brăila. 

The Fair would host a workshop entitled 

“Community Involvement and Active 

Youth Participation to the Civic Life”. The 

day dedicated to the Fair would end with a 

party that would offer the volunteers and 

the potential volunteers the opportunity to 

interact. 

Achievements 

The project began with the creation of the local 

Coalition for youth whose members are 

representatives of the public administration 

(Local Council, Mayor, Prefect, 

representatives of decentralized services of 

the Ministry of Interior and Administration, 

Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education, 

Research and Youth, Ministry of Labour, Social 

Solidarity and Family, representatives of the 

National Agency for Sports, representatives of 

the County Center for Drug Abuse Prevention 

and Counseling, representatives of the civil 

society, media and NGOs that work with youth 

in Brăila. 

During the first meeting with the Coalition 

members, the participants expressed their 

opinion on the current problems related to 

youth and their willingness to collaborate to the 

development of directions of action for the 

period 2005-2007 in relevant fields for youth in 

Brăila. 

Four interactive debates were organized 

during IXth grade counselling classes, tackling 

the issue of voluntary work as a way of 

developing personal abilities and as an 

informal educational process based on 

collective action in the community. 

In order to promote the NGO Fair among young 

people of Braila, a radio campaign was aired. 

The Fair provided the participants with the 

opportunity of finding partners for voluntary 

projects. The slogan of the campaign was ' Get 

Involved and See What You Can Do!”. 

Brăila teenagers meet APD members

Donor 

NationalAgency for Supporting Youth Intiatives 

Budget 

2,492 USD 

Partners 

' PROILAVIA' Association Brăila and the 

National Mutual Association Romania - Franţa, 

Dej - Brăila branch 

Period 

October, 2005 - January, 2006 

Goal 

Creating an efficient and useful dialogue 

between young students and foreign 

diplomatic representatives in Romania. 


Bucharest 

Objectives 

Identifying the main topics of interest for 

the young students; 

Ensuring a location for the debates; 

Achievements 

The idea fueling the project 'Civil Society in 

European Countries' was developed on the 

background of the assessment of needs of 

Club members in particular, and of youth in 

Bucharest, in general, on the details related to 

Romania's accession to the European Union. 

Members and volunteers of the Club APD 

Bucharest as well as students from different 

fields of interest had the opportunity of entering 

a dialogue with personalities such as: 

Jonathan Scheele - Head of the EC Delegation 

in Romania, H.E. Dr. Dušan Crnogorčević - 

Jonathan Scheele, Head of Delegation of The European 

Comission in Romania, guest of the Club APD Bucharest 

Ambassador of Serbia and Montenegro in 

Romania, H.E. Quinton Mark Quayle - Her 

Majesty's Ambassador to Romania, H.E. 

Wilfried Grüber - Ambassador of the German 

Republic in Romania, and others. 

The main topics debated during the meetings 

were civil society and its role in strengthening 

democracy, the ways youth can get involved in 

the activity of the NGOs, the relations between 

Romania and its neighbors, and European 

integration. 

In a comfortable setting generously offered by 

the Group for Social Dialogue - the guests of 

Club APD Bucharest shared details from the 

experience of their own countries. The media 

was also invited to participate to the debates. 

Donor 

Self-financing

Period 

January - December, 2005 

Goal 

Increasing the interest of high school students 

for participating to the life of the community 

they live in. 


Focşani 

Objectives 

improving the student-professor 

relationship; 

increasing the degree of awareness 

regarding students rights and obligations 

in the project high schools, strenghtening 

youth participation 

extracurricular activities. 

in civic and 

Achievements 

An informal debate and civic education club for 

volunteers which are not yet 18 and therefore 

cannot be APD members with voting rights 

functions within Club APD Focşani. This club 

has among its members Focşani high school 

students that meet on a weekly basis in the 

Club APD Focşani office. During these 

meetings, students have debates on themes of 

general interest that stimulate their civic 

education and public speaking skills. 

Thus, teenagers learn the features and values 

of a democratic society and are encouraged to 

get involved in the projects Club APD Focşani 

implements. 

The members of the debate club, together with 

several teachers that are Club APD Focşani 

members, as well as with other volunteer 

teachers from the “Unirea” High School in 

Focşani, facilitated counseling classes as a 

part of the School for Democracy project, 

classes which focused on the improvement of 

the student-teacher relationship. During this 

project, which was implemented in Focşani, 

Odobeşti, Mărăşeşti, students were involved in 

active learning exercises that encouraged 

them to express their opinions on problems of 

concern for them. 

Two problems were identified in the course of 

this project: the lack of civic education classes 

in high school that would allow students to 

applly the theory of democracy at the school 

level, and the existence of communication 

gaps in the student-teacher relationship. 

Club APD Focşani will approach these two 

problems in its further projects. 

Donor 

Self-financing 

Partners 

Vrancea County Inspectorate for Education 

Period 

September - November, 2005 

Goal 

Raising civic awareness among high school 

students. 


Timişoara 

Objectives 

pupils gain general knowledge on the 

European Union and the values it 

promotes; 

pupils identify ways to actively take part in 

the life of the community they live in. 

Achievements 

The project team produced a leaflet with 

general information on the following subjects: 

the European Union (history, values), human 

rights (history, importance), the civil society 

(structure, role). 

Within the project, visits with high school 

students will be organized to the following local 

institutions: Timişoara City Hall, Timiş County 

Council, 

and Timiş Local Government Office. 

Donor 

Timişoara Local Council 

Budget 

172 USD

Period 

January, 2005 - January, 2007 

Goal 

Developing educational programms for 

teachers working in the field of participatory 

democracy. Training ' local democracy 

promoters ', as 'bridges' between civil society 

and the public decisional level. 


Timişoara 

Objectives 

Training ' democracy promoters' 

that would 

reduce the gap between civil society and 

decision makers in local public administration. 

The target group is represented by civil 

servants and civil society representatives 

(NGO members) that, through dialogue and 

cooperation, could reach common grounds on 

problems of the community and find viable 

solutions to these problems. 

Achievements 

The project had the following activities: 

developing a course for the 'democracy 

promoters', organizing a training that would be 

tested by each partner in the project, and 

creating an on-line database - www.bridgedemocracy.org 

- that presents projects of 

participatory democracy; this internet 

database represents an important resource for 

project ideas and possible partners for similar 

projects. 

In 2005, the partner organizations finalized the 

common education plan, and the Romanian 

partners created the handbook for the training 

that would be organized in Romania, adapted 

to the national specificities. Club APD 

Timişoara organized the pilot course, whose 

beneficiaties were 11 members of the 

neighborhood Citizens Consultative 

Committees in Timişoara. 

Donor 

The European Union, through the Socrates 

Grundtvig Program 

Budget 

7,641 USD (Romania, 2005) 

Partners 

'Copenhagen Adult Education Institute' in 

Denmark - main contractor, nongovernmental 

organizations 

active in the field of civic 

education in the Netherlands, Estonia, Spain, 

and Romania 

Period 

November - December, 2005 

Goal 

Improving the level of youth involvement in 

voluntary activities, in fields of their interest and 

raising its awareness on the importance 

voluntary activities have in developing one's 

professional skills. 


Sibiu 

Objectives 

improving the knowledge of 10 teenagers 

(studying Political Science, International 

Relations, Law, Public Administration, 

Sociology, 

and Psychology) and their 

awareness of the importance voluntary 

activities have in developing one's 

professional skills; 

applying into practice the knowledge 

acquired by the 10 teenagers, through 

their involvement in an internship 

program. 

Achievements 

Within this project, eight sophomore and senior 

students in Political Science, International 

Relations, Law, Public Administration, 

Sociology and Psychology were involved 

through Club APD Sibiu in a 10-month 

internship program in local public institutions 

(City Hall, Local Government Office, County 

Council, Territorial Labour Inspectorate, 

Direction for Labour, Social Solidarity and 

Family,A.J.O.F.M.).

In order to improve the knowledge in the field of 

volunteering, beside the monthly evaluation 

meetings and various seminars organized for 

them, the participants attended a seminar on 

volunteering and, implicitly, on willful 

involvement. This seminar was organized in 

the Păltiniş Camp. The most frequently used 

method for this seminar was the debate 

(deliberative forum) so as to render it as 

interactive and interesting for the participants 

as possible. 

To complete the knowledge acquired by the 

participants during the various volunteer 

activities they were involved in, the project 

team created a theoretical material named 

“Volunteer's Handbook”, which was handed to 

each of the participants upon the ending of the 

project. 

Donor 

National Authority for Youth - through the Sibiu 

County Direction for Youth 

Budget 

446 USD 

Period 

November - December, 2005 

Goal 

Informing youth on the importance of an active 

involvement in the life of the community. 


Sibiu 

Objectives 

training 20 volunteers (teenagers 

studying Political Science and 

International Relations) on various 

themes related to civic participation, 

volunteers that would latter become 

facilitators of deliberative forums for 500 

high school teenagers; 

disseminating the information acquired 

by the 20 volunteers through deliberative 

forums, involving up to 500 high school 

students. 

Achievements 

The first phase of the project consisted of 

recruiting 23 young students (from the fields of 

Political Science, International Relations, 

Sociology) that constituted the team of 

information multipliers. The team was trained 

during seminars on the following subjects: 

public institutions in Romania, public policies, 

citizen participation, existing legislation in the 

field of citizen involvement in the decision 

making process. 

For the verification of the knowledge acquired 

during the training seminars, members of the 

information multipliers team filled in an 

evaluation questionnaire. 

The second phase of the project was 

represented by the creation of the materials 

necessary to the team of students for the 

dissemination of knowledge accumulated 

towards approximately 500 high school pupils 

from Sibiu. For the drafting of this material, the 

students were given the opportunity to offer 

feedback for the improvement, 

both in form and 

substance, 

of the information delivered to high 

school pupils. 

The information on citizen participation to the 

life of the community was disseminated 

through deliberative forums. 

The project, implemented in partnership with 

the Sibiu County Direction for Youth, benefited 

from an active involvement of representatives 

of this Direction in all the activities of the 

project. 

For the promotion of the project, the project 

team organized a press conference to which it 

invited representatives from local radios, 

newspapers and televisions; following this 

conference, two articles appeared in the 

written press, and two news were broadcasted 

(one on the radio and one on the local 

television). 

Donor 


County Direction for Youth 

Budget 

238 USD 

Parteners 


County Direction for Youth

Period 

February, 2004 - February, 2005 

Goal 

Diminishing the corruption generated by 

nontransparent and illegal political parties and 

electoral campaigns financing in 2004. 

Objectives 

improving the way the law on political 

parties and electoral campaigns financing 

is enforced by producing a ' Guide to 

Political Parties and Electoral Campaigns 

Financing' 

and by organizing a series of 

trainings with political parties 

representatives in Bucharest, Bacău, 

Braşov, Cluj-Napoca, Costanţa, Râmnicu 

Vâlcea, and Timişoara; 

raising the level of transparency of 

political parties' electoral campaigns, by 

independently monitoring the expenses 

of political competitors in electoral 

campaigns and through monitoring the 

degree to which law provisions on political 

parties and electoral campaigns financing 

are respected. 

Achievements 

The project activities, begun in 2004, focused 

on the monitoring of the degree to which law 

provisions on political parties and electoral 

campaigns financing were respected. 

Furthermore, activities were run for training 

and clarifying specific aspects of the law for 

representatives of political parties and 

journalists; monitoring campaigns were run to 

evaluate the electoral media and outdoor 

advertising; the activity of the Court of 

Accounts as a body of control was monitored. 

During the post-electoral period, Asociaţia Pro 

Democraţia monitored whether the way 

political parties declared their financial sources 

and expenses during the electoral campaigns 

was consistent with the law provisions (within 

15 days after the official results are announced) 

and compared the declared incomes and 

expenses for the electoral campaigns with the 

results of theAPD monitoring campaign. 

The conclusions of Asociaţia Pro Democraţia 

obtained after implementing this project were 

presented to all the interested domestic and 

foreign parties through two studies: ' Report on 

the Monitoring of the Electoral Campaigns for 

2004 Elections - June 2004' 

and ' Pushing the 

Limits of Democracy. 

Analysis of the Electoral 

Process in Romania October - December, 

2004 '. 

Designed as a comprehensive study, with 

information on both the electoral process as 

well as on the transparency of the funds 

involved in the electoral campaigns and 

political parties financing from that period, the 

report ' Pushing the Limits of Democracy. 

Analysis of the Electoral Process in Romania 

October - December, 2004 ', published in 2005, 

wanted to be an instrument for informing public 

opinion on the main conclusions of the 2004 

elections. 

From the perspective of the political parties and 

electoral campaigns financing and based on 

the researches and monitoring campaigns 

from the Money and Politics project, the 

research 'P ushing the Limits of Democracy' 

tackles issues such as the expenses political 

parties and candidates did, the transparency of 

political parties and electoral campaigns 

financing, as well as recommendations on the 

way legislation regulating this field could be 

improved. 

It must be emphasized that, through the 

problems brought into the limelight byAsociaţia 

Pro Democraţia, public authorities were 

persuaded to include the field of political 

parties and electoral campaigns financing in 

the National Anticorruption Strategy II and to 

include the recommendations resulted from

the analyses APD did into the new law project 

on the financing of political life drafted by the 

Ministry of Justice. 

Donor 

Canadian International Development Agency 

and National Democratic Institute for 

InternationalAffairs. 

Budget 

65,749 USD (9,995 USD - National Democratic 

Institute for International Affairs, 55,754 USD - 

Canadian International DevelopmentAgency) 

Period 

February, 2004 - January, 2005 

Goal 

Ensuring a fair and transparent electoral 

process in 2004 Romanian local, 

parliamentary and presidential elections. 

Achievements 

The activities run in 2005 within the project Fair 

Elections in 2004 were meant to synthesize 

and draw conclusions for the researches and 

monitoring campaigns that were developed in 

2004. Thus, Asociaţia Pro Democraţia 

published ' Pushing the Limits of Democracy. 

Analysis of the Electoral Process in Romania 

October - December, 2004' 

an analysis on the 

way the elections held in 2004 in Romania and 

their subsequent electoral campaigns were 

organized. The report is available at 

www.apd.ro. 

Training seminar 

for journalists within the project Money and Politics 

Through this publication, Asociaţia Pro 

Democraţia wanted to bring into the limelight 

the conclusions it drew from monitoring the 

2004 elections. The material includes 

discussions on the political context in 2004, the 

legislative framework that regulated the 

organization of elections, on the actual 

electoral process (as recorded in its observers' 

reports) as well as recommendations on the 

ways the electoral process in Romania could 

be improved. 

Donor 


Affairs 

Budget 

58,050 USD

Period 

March - April, 2005 

Goal 

Ensuring the transparency and fairness of the 

elections held for the Bucharest General City Hall 

(partial electionsApril 3, 2005). 

Involved Citis / Clubs 

Bucharest 

Objectives 

monitoring the organization of elections for 

the Bucharest General City Hall; 

informing the public opinion on the fairness 

of the electoral process for the Bucharest 

General City Hall. 

Achievements 

For the monitoring of the two election rounds, 

Club APD Bucharest recruited and trained 150 

observers. These observers monitored the 

fairness of the electoral process in Bucharest, by 

covering 141 polling stations, with other 10 

polling stations being monitored by a mobile 

observation team formed by two persons. 

Furthermore, the partial elections were 

monitored in the commune Mogoşoaia (three 

polling sections) by a mobile team formed by two 

members of ClubAPD Bucharest. 

The notificationsAPD observers made during the 

day of the vote mainly made reference to flaws in 

the organization of the electoral process: lack of 

information on the existing legal provisions of the 

members of the Electoral Bureaus of the Voting 

Polling, the unclear provisions of Law 67/2004, 

the way the electoral process was organized. 

The most frequent malfunctionnings APD 

observers recorded were related to: the 

availability of the Electoral Bureau members to 

allow the NGO 'Millenium for Human Rights' 

representatives to vote in the polling stations 

they were monitoring the elections without being 

entitled to; auxiliary personnel (policemen in 

charge with guaranteeing order) intervening in 

the voting process by impeding students, based 

on the Law 67/2004, to vote; the entering in the 

voting booth of more than one voter without any 

justifications; continuation of the electoral 

campaign near polling stations through posters, 

banners and through the presence of local City 

Hall representatives; requests for the mobile 

voting booth without total compliance with the 

law. 

APD observers made both written and spoken 

notifications to the Electoral Bureaus 

representatives. Most of the irregularities were 

resolved by the presidents of the polling stations 

after being reported by our observers and, where 

necessary, by the Presidents of the Bucharest 

Electoral Bureaus or by the County Electoral 

Office, upon the notifications made by the project 

team. The project coordinator sent a notification 

to the Bucharest Electoral Bureau and to the 

media, the press release being cited by 

Mediafax. The day following the local elections, 

Club APD Bucharest issued a press release with 

the results of the monitoring process and an 

evaluation of this process. The monitoring of 

local elections was reflected by the media on 

April 3. 

Donor 


Affairs 

Budget 

This project was implemented within the larger 

framework of the Fair Elections in 2004 project 

financed by NDI with 58,050 USD 

Period 

February, 2005 

Goal 

Evaluating and discussing the specificities of 

elections in Ukraine and Moldavia, with a 

special emphasis on the latter. 

Objectives 

Building a team of democracy experts and 

attending a seminar held on February 16-18, 

2005 in Chişnău. 

On behalf ofAPD, the seminar was attended by 

representatives of the following Clubs: Arad, 

Braşov, Bucharest, Cluj, Timişoara, and Mr. 

Cristian Pîrvulescu, President of Asociaţia Pro 

Democraţia 

Achievements 

The discussions evolved around three main 

aspects: the specificities of the electoral laws in

the three countries; the role NGOs and youth 

have in guaranteeing a fair electoral process; 

the role youth organizations within political 

parties have in the electoral proces (Mr. 

Cristian Busoi attended the seminar on behalf 

of the National Liberal Party in Romania). 

For the entire seminar, the participants from 

Ukraine and Romania shared their electoral 

experiences while representatives from the 

host country presented the challenges faced 

during their attempts at ensuring a transparent 

electoral process. The main problems derived 

from the lack of a genuine electoral campaign 

and the fallacious electoral law that gravely 

prejudiced the electoral process in Moldova. 

For the Romanian delegation, this seminar was 

an opportunity to find more details about the 

political life in its neigbour country. 

Donor 

Open Society Foundation 

Budget 

4,000 USD 

By maintaining its interest for the fairness of the 

electoral process in Romania as well as in the 

region, Asociaţia Pro Democraţia sent, as part 

of the European Network for Election 

Monitoring Organization (ENEMO), a team of 

11 observers in Albania (July 3, 2005) and a 

team of three observers in Khirghistan (July, 

10). For both observation missions, APD also 

had one long-term observer. 

Both electoral processes encountered no 

serios problems. However, our observers 

helped at signaling all existing irregularities 

and, through their presence, discouraged fraud 

attempts. The reports and press releases for 

the two missions are available at 

www.enemo.org.ua. 

ENEMO seeks to support the international 

community's interest in and support for 

democracy in the OSCE to assess electoral 

conditions and the political environment, and to 

offer accurate and impartial observation 

reports. ENEMO international observation 

International observer's tools 

( Parliamentary elections, Albania, July, 

2005) 

missions evaluate the electoral process using 

international standards for democratic and fair 

elections (1990 Copenhagen Document) and 

benchmarks in the assessed country's 

legislation and constitution.

Period 

August, 2005 - July, 2006 

Goal 

Increasing the capacity of Asociaţia Pro 

Democraţia to influence public policies related 

to the area of democracy and rule of law at both 

national and local levels, as well as to increase 

its capacity of mobilizing local communities for 

influencing public policies. 


National Coordination Center and the Regional 

Resource Centers 

Objectives 

organizing a special department within 

APD with expertise in delivering analyses 

and researches in the fields of interest for 

theAssociation; 

ensuring the necessary technical support 

for achieving APD's strategic objectives 

established for the upcoming period 

(2006 - 2008). 

Achievements 

In the second part of 2005, we organized, as a 

special department within the APD executive, 

the Resource Center for Democracy of 

Asociaţia Pro Democraţia (CReD-APD). The 

department is lead by a Research Director, 

selected by the Board of Asociaţia Pro 

Democraţia. 

The first project of the Center is related to the 

process of electoral reform that is about to be 

initiated by the Romanian legislative body. 

Thus, the Center elaborated an Electoral Code 

draft, finalized the comparative research on the 

voting systems used by the 25 EU Member 

S tates, plus Bulgaria and Romania, 

and 

produce a series of simulations on the possible 

results to elections organized based on 

different types of voting systems; these 

simulations used the results of the 

parliamentary elections held in November, 

2004. 

Donor 

Open Society Institute, Budapest 

Budget 

71, 

634 USD 

Period 

April - May, 2005 

Goal 

Ascertaining public opinion in six cities within 

the framework of the World Bank consultation 

plan for the Country Partnership Strategy. 


Alexandria, Craiova, Galaţi, Iaşi, Sibiu, and 

Timişoara. 

Objectives 

Identyfing the main aspects of concern on the 

agenda of citizens and of representatives from 

specific fields of activity. 

Achievements 

Throughout the month of April, one public 

meeting was organized in each of the six 

participating cities, meetings that were 

attended usually by at least 20 persons. The 

facilitator of these meetings was Dorel Şandor. 

The opinions expressed by the participants 

during these meetings were recorded and used 

by the World Bank representatives as 

indicators for the drafting of the Country 

Partnership Strategy 2006 - 2009. 

Donor 

World Bank 

Budget 

6, 

795 USD

Period 

September, 2004 -August, 2006 

Goal 

Improving APD's capacity to meet the needs 

related to democracy development at the local 

communities level in the context of Romania's 

EU integration. 


All APD Clubs, with a special emphasis on 

those in: Arad, Baia Mare, Bacău, Braşov, 

Brăila, Bucureşti, Caracal, Cluj-Napoca, 

Focşani, Galaţi, Oradea, Râmnicu Vâlcea, 

Sibiu, and Timişoara. 

Objectives 

improving the associative culture and 

internal democracy within the Clubs, and 

the quantitative and qualitative 

improvement of these Clubs' participation 

to the decision making process inAPD; 

improving the knowledge of 14 APD 

Clubs on transparency of local public 

administration activities, and on citizen 

participation to the decision making 

process; 

supporting these Clubs in the process of 

improving their ability to respond to the 

needs and agenda of the local 

communities: to formulate visions and 

strategies, to transalate these visions and 

strategies in operational projects and 

programs and to obtain the necessary 

resources for the implementation of such 

projects and programs, by mobilizing both 

private resources and grants; 

 

 

improving the image APD and its Clubs 

have as service providers in fields such as 

local democracy development, citizen 

participation to the decision making 

process at the local level etc. 

ensuring the financial assistance for a 

major project related to local democracy, 

for ten Clubs (out of the 14 Clubs involved 

in the project). 

Achievements 

In order to achieve the goals set for the project, 

the first steps were the organization of a series 

of training sessions for the representatives of 

each Club, in order to improve APD members' 

knowledge on organizational culture, project 

proposal drafting, and project management. 

We have to mention that, apart from the 

technical information offered by the trainers, 

the importance of the training sessions goes 

deeper, and offers a wider perspective for an 

analysis of the organizational environment. 

One can easily observe the communication 

process among members of different Clubs 

and among those of the same Club by 

monitoring the way information they received 

during this training session was disseminated 

within their Clubs. 

In order to increase the Clubs' capacity to affirm 

themselves at the local level in situations 

concerning local public administration 

transparency and citizen participation to the 

decision making process, APD's Regional 

Coordinators attended a course 'Training of 

Trainers' on transparency laws (Law 544/2001 

and Law 52/2003), after which disseminatied 

information to the Clubs from the region they 

coordinate. 

Both for facilitating these training sessions and 

for increasing the capacity of the Clubs 

involved in the project to adequately meet the 

needs and the agenda of the local 

communities, Mrs. Roxana Braga was 

contracted as a consultant. Furthermore, in the 

autumn of 2005, a series of work meetings 

between the consultant and Club APD 

members took place, concerning: 

the analysis of the paths each Club sees 

for its medium-term development; 

the initiation of the process of strategic 

planning at the level of each Club; 

the exploration of the financing methods 

at the Club and regional levels; 

providing information and assistance to 

all APD Clubs on writing project proposals 

for financing programs available at a 

certain moment in time. 

After each of these visits, the Clubs involved in 

the project elaborated at least one project 

proposal for the financing opportunities 

existing at that time. Up until this annual report 

is being published, APD received six favorable 

responses for six projects forwarded for 

financing, three of which are national projects. 

Following the initiation of the process of 

strategic planning, within the working meetings 

of Club APD members and the external 

consultant, the Clubs continued to develop 

their own strategic plans, sustained through 

operational projects and programs, so that, by 

the beginning of 2006, the process of strategic

planning would end. Starting from these strategic 

plans, APD Clubs will work to obtain the 

necessary resources for implementing those 

projects and programs, both by mobilizing 

private resources, and by attracting grants. 

As for the quantitative and qualitative 

improvement of APD Clubs' participation to the 

decision making process in APD, 14 editions of 

the internal newsletter were produced and 

distributed, informing all members about the 

external and internal activities of APD. Two APD 

General Assemblies were organized (in 2004 

and 2005) with a large number of APD members 

attending each of them. Furthermore, some of 

the Clubs involved in the project started 

producing their own internal newsletters, 

organized monthly informal meetings for their 

members, and a series of debates that were 

attended by persons outside the organization, as 

well. The discussions tackled issues such as: 

improving education for democracy for high 

school years, civil society and the European 

democracies, involving young people in the NGO 

activity etc. 

In order to improve and promote both the national 

image of the organization and that of its Clubs, a 

series of events was organized in Bucharest and 

in other cities for the celebration of 15 years of 

activity, the 2004 Annual Report was published 

and distributed (1,000 copies), and some of the 

Clubs involved in the project published their own 

annual activity reports for 2004. 

Donor 


Budget 

99,845 USD 

The president of Asociatia Pro Democratia, Mr. 

Cristian Pirvulescu facilitates a monthly debate 

taking place in Prometheus Club. The Political 

Dialogues represent another was of 

strengthening democracy in Romania by 

providing the participants with the opportunity to 

dialogue, debate, and argue on issues of 

importance for the political scene of the moment. 

Mr. Pirvulescu's guests (politicians, analysts, 

sociologists) as well as other participants (most 

of which students) create, 

through these 

debates, 

a genuine open public space where 

divergent ideas are formulated in an organized 

and civic manner. 

The last Political Dialogue for the year 2004 had 

as a main guest Mr. Traian Basescu, President of 

Romania. For the first time ever, a Romanian 

Prometheus , Club waiting for 

Political Dialogues

president entered a dialogue with and 

answered the questions of students. More than 

150 participants to the event formulated 

questions varying from the 2004 elections 

general climate to LGBT rights, from journalism 

to youth employment, form the impact political 

change in Germany might have on its 

relationship with Romania and to the official 

website of the Presidency. 

Period 

March, 2005 

Goal 

Raising funds for supporting the project on the 

monitoring of the partial elections for Bucharest 

City Hall. 


Bucharest 

Objectives 

attracting as many participants as 

possible; 

selling up to 95% of the displayed 

photographs. 

The displayed photos were taken by observers 

of Club APD Bucharest during the 

monitorization of the parliamentary elections in 

Ukraine (November - December, 2004) , the 

Republic of Kirgistan (February, 2005) and the 

Republic of Moldavia (March, 2005) . Asociaţia 

Pro Democraţia - Bucharest Club succeeded in 

raising 10,700,000 ROL/1,070 RON through 

organizing this exhibit. 

Donor 

Donations from the members of the Club APD 

Bucharest 

Achievements 

Asociaţia Pro Democraţia - Bucharest Club 

organized on Thursday, March 24, 2005, a 

fundraising event, offering the guests the 

opportunity to admire and buy original photos 

taken in Ukraine, the Republic of Kirgistan and 

the Republic of Moldavia. The space for the 

'People, Places, Polling Sections' Photography 

Selling Exhibit was generously offered by the 

Amsterdam Café, Bucharest, and funds raised 

during the event were used for monitoring the 

partial elections for the Bucharest City Hall. 

Images from Ukrain e, Kirigistan and Moldavia in pictures... at Amsterdam Grand Café

Asociatia Pro Democratia Club Arad 

organized, between May 4 and 9, 2005, a 

symposium to celebrate 'Europe's Day'. The 

organizers wanted to create the opportunity to 

identify and discuss the problems created by 

the Romanian integration in the EU, mainly for 

2005 and 2006. 

The main subjects discussed during the 

symposium referred to justice, internal affairs, 

and competition, with a special emphasis 

on 

the corruption phenomena from these 

domains. 

Some of the participants to these debates were 

the General Prosecutor of the Prosecuting 

Office of the Tribunal fromArad, the Chief of the 

County Police Inspectorate, the chief of the 

European Integration from the Chamber of 

Commerce, Industry and Agriculture Arad, a 

counselor specialized in European integration 

issues from the Local Government Office, and 

the Vice-mayor of Arad. Other participants 

were representatives from 15 NGOs, mass 

media, three political parties and eight public 

institutions whose activities subscribe to the 

subjects discussed. Representatives of APD 

Club Timişoara, Moldavian Students 

Association and ANSIT - Timişoara Territorial 

Centre also participated. 

The conclusions underlined the necessity for a 

sustained reform in all the domains mentioned 

above, and for continuosly supporting the 

public institutions. 

Donor: 

Arad City Hall 

Budget: 

755 USD 

Between July 8 and 10, 2005, in Moneasa, 

Club APD Arad organized a seminar aiming at 

analyzing the state of democratic development 

of local political institutions. The 20 participants 

that attended the debate were representatives 

of local nongovernmental organizations and 

media plus ClubAPDArad members. 

The subjects the participants tounched upon 

during the debates were topics high on the 

local public debates agenda: undemocratic 

practices in local brances of Romanian political 

parties; main characteristics of the citizen 

public institutions relationship in Arad; ways of 

involving nongovernmental organizations in 

the dialogue between citizens and public 

institutions in Arad; concrete actions that can 

stimulate citizens to have an active role in 

relation to public institutions, cooperation 

opportunities between NGOs and media sector 

in the direction of counteracing the 

unbenevolent effects of un-democratic 

practices political representatives manifest. 

The participants at this seminar set forth a 

commitment to embark upon mutually- 

activities on the side of the NGO 

supportive 

sector in order to inform and educate citizens 

with on the concrete means of involvement in 

the public decision making process, granted 

through the provisions of the Law 544/2001 

( Law on free Access to Information of Public 

Interest) and of the Law 52/2003 ( Law on 

Transparency of the Decision Making Process 

in Public Administration). Moreover, 

the 

participants laid a strong emphasis on better 

crafted collaboration between journalists and 

NGOs that would identify and put in practice 

concrete mutually supportive 

actions to 

counteract repercursions of un-democratic 

phenomena from within political parties in the 

public space. 

Donor: 


Budget: 

858 USD

Reaffirming human rights and civil freedoms as 

a fundamental condition, from the point of view 

of the democratic development and of 

changing the mentality in the cultural field, 

represented the fundamental idea behind the 

organization of a symposium between 

December 6 and 10, 2005, inArad. 

APD Club Arad wanted to organize a 

symposium that would provide the participants 

with the opportunity to debate specific subjects 

concerning human rights. 

28 persons attended this event, representing 

11 NGOs and institutions (FDGR, Civic 

Alliance, ARGUS, Christian and Cultivated Art 

'Sfintii Teodor si Elena', AC 'Lira Aradeana', Pro 

Pact Association, SPVRSI Arad Tribunal, 

Millenium Centre Asociation, International 

Republican Institute, CJA), and five political 

parties (three structures from the National 

Liberal Party - students' clubs, National Youth, 

and Arad branch; Democratic Force Arad; 

Conservative Party; Cristian-Democrat 

Popular Party; Social Democratic Party). 

The discussions were focused on subjects 

such as victim rights, minority rights and civil 

righs, having the framework drawn by the 

presentation of three scientific works. 

Donor 

International Republican Institute 

Budget 

480 USD 

Asociatia Pro Democratia celebrated 15 years 

of existence that signified for the entire team a 

period of enthusiasm, involvement, team work 

and abundance of professional achievements. 

Nothing could have been achieved, however, 

without people that joined our efforts 

throughout the years. We would like to thank all 

those who supported us during this period, all 

those who encouraged and helped us to 

continue even in bad moments. 

The 15 years of activities of Asociatia Pro 

Democratia were celebrated in several 

Romanian cities where APD Clubs exist. In 

Bucharest, on September 15, Asociatia Pro 

Democratia was celebrated by representatives 

of the political and social life.Among our guests 

We are thus grateful to APD members and 

volunteers, to our partners and to the entire 

body of civically active citizens without which 

nothing we achieved so far would have ever 

been achievable. And that because Asociatia 

Pro Democratia envisages a society in which 

citizen participation guarantees the 

accountability of the elected and the efficiency 

of the process of governance. Citizens' 

involvement in the life of the community they 

live in is at the forefront of a genuine 

democracy. 

Costel Popa - Deputy Director of APD, Adrian Sorescu - Executive Director of APD 

and Cristian Pîrvulescu - President 

of APD

we could mention Mr. Călin Popescu- 

Tăriceanu - Romanian Prime Minister, Mr. 

Onno Simons - Deputy Head of EC Delegation 

in Romania, Mr. Mircea Geoana - SDP 

Senator, Mrs. Mona Musca - NLP Deputy, Mr. 

Victor Ponta - SDP Deputy, Mr. Alexandru 

Radu - Vice-president of the Permanent 

Electoral Authority, representatives from 

embassies, presidents and directors of 

nongovernmental organizations, 

representatives of international missions to 

Romania and of various local and central 

authorities. During the event, three excellence 

diplomas in democracy were offered to several 

political figures that supported Asociatia Pro 

Democratia in its efforts of strengthening 

democracy in Romania by encouraging civic 

participation. 

At the local level, APD Clubs all over the 

country marked this anniversary through the 

organization of the Open Doors Day (Vâlcea 

and Cluj), through actions mentioned by the 

local media (Bacău, Brăila, and Caracal), 

exhibits with materials (Braşov) or meetings 

within Clubs, with APD members and 

volunteers (Arad). 

For the following years, we aim at militating for 

improving the electoral legislation, enhancing 

transparency and efficiency of local public 

administration, and for improving mechanisms 

for ensuring an efficient citizen consultation 

process.

Project 

Recipient 

Budget 

provided 

Donor Period Project 

type 

by the donor* 

% of total 

for 2005 

Money and Politics 

National Coordination 

Center 

National Democratic Institute 

for International Affairs 

$9.995 

October, 2004 - 


national 

2,23% 

Money and Politics National Coordination Canadian International 

Fair Elections in 2004 

Center 


Development Agency 


Institutional Development 

Center 



Charles Stewart Mott 

of APD 2004 - 2006 

Integrity in Local 

Center 


Foundation 

MATRA Program of the Dutch 

Public Administration 

Center 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

through TransFORMA 

Foundation 

Lessons on Elections in 

Romania and Ukraine 

Technical Assistance for 

a World Bank Project 

Electoral Reform in 

Romania - Conference 

Improving APD's Research 

and Policy Analysis Capacity 

Electoral Reform in 

Romania 


Center 


Center 


Center 


Center 


Center 

$55.754 

$58.050 

$99.845 

$104.825 

February, 2004 - 



January, 2005 

September, 2004 - 

August, 2006 

March, 2004 - 

March, 2006 

national 

5,18% 

national 

9,25% 

national 

27,85% 

national 

29,24% 

Open Society Foundation $4.000 February, 2005 national 

2,23% 

April, 2005 - 

World Bank $6.795 

national 

3,79% 

May, 2005 


June, 2005 - 

$3.120 

national 

1,74% 


July, 2005 

Open Society Institute $71.634 

August, 2005 - 

national 

16,65% 

July 2006 



$9.900 


June 2006 

national 

1,84% 

NCC SUBTOTAL $423.918 100,00%

Efficient Administration 

through Public Participation 

Dialogue Program - 

Public-Private Partnership 

for Local Community 

Citizen Advice Bureau 

Braşov 

Interns in 

Public 

Institutions VII 

Make Up Your Mind, It's 

Your Future, Too! 

Citizen Consultative 

Committees 

APD - Club Braşov 

through Sibiu 

Community Foundation 

APD - Club Braşov 

hrough Sibiu 

Community Foundation 

National Endowment for 

Democracy 

C.S.Mott $10.750 

APD - Club Braşov Balkan Trust for Democracy $17.534 

APD - Club Cluj-Napoca 

National Endowment for 

Democracy 

January, 2005 - 

$8.210 national 

9,00% 

January, 2006 

$31.569 

APD - Club Cluj-Napoca Open Society Foundation $10.450 

APD - Club Cluj-Napoca 

Cluj - Napoca Local Council 

$1.378 

Citizen Information Center 

in Valea Aurie Neighbourhood APD - Club Sibiu Deventer Municipality $1.500 

Student and 

Project 

Volunteer 

Civic Forums in Sibiu 

High Schools 

Youth and the Civic Life 

Resources for Democracy 

Open Eyes, Open Minds, 

Open Doors 

Building real Inclusion and 

Democratic Governance 

through Education 

Democracy Lectures 

Europe's Day - beyond 

Symbols 

Civic and Political Debates 

Forum 

Human Rights International 

Day 

Recipient 

APD - Club Sibiu 

APD - Club Sibiu 

APD - Club Brăila 

APD - Club Timişoara 



APD - Club Focşani 

Donor 

ANT - Sibiu County Direction 

for Youth $446 

ANT - Sibiu County Direction 

for Youth $238 

National Agency for Supporting 

Youth Initiatives 

$2.492 


$172 


European Union - Socrates 

Grundtvig Program 

Local business companies 

Budget provided 

by the donor* 

$172 

$7.641 

$789 


December, 2005 

November, 2004 - 

October, 2005 

March, 2005 - 


March, 2005 - 

June, 2005 



May, 2004 - 

January, 2005 





July, 2005 - 




September, 2005 - 



January, 2007 


October, 2005 

national 

11,79% 

local 16,03% 

national 

34,62% 

international 

11,46% 

local 1,51% 

local 0,18% 

local 0,49% 

local 0,26% 

local 2,73% 

local 0,19% 

local 0,19% 

local 8,38% 

local 0,87% 

APD - Club Arad Arad City Hall $755 May, 2005 local 0,83% 

APD - Club Arad Arad City Hall $858 July, 2005 local 0,94% 

APD - Club Arad International Republican Institut e 

$480 December, 2005 local 0,53% 

SUBTOTAL $95.434 100,00% 

TOTAL** $519.352 

* Budgets represent the total amount of the donation, not the total amount received for the year 2005 

** For the budgets indicated in other currencies than USD, the following exchenge rate was used: 1EUR = 1,2USD 

Period 

Proiect type 

% of total 

for 2005

Money and Politics - 

National 

Democratic 

Institute for 

International Affairs 

Money and Politics - 

Canadian 

International 

Development Agency 

Fair Elections in 

2004 - National 

Democratic 

Institute for 


Institutional 

Development of 

APD 2004-2006 

- C.S. Mott 

Integrity in Local Public 

Administration - MATRA 

Program of the Dutch 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

through TransFORMA 

Foundation 

Lessons on Elections in 

Romania 

and Ukraine 

- 

Open Society 

Foundation 

2,23% 5,18% 9,25% 27,85% 29,24% 2,23% 

1,74% 

3,79% 

2,23% 

16,65% 

1,84% 2,23% 5,18% 

9,25% 

27,85% 

Techincal Electoral Reform Improving APD's Electoral Reform 

Assitance for a in România - Research and Policy in Romania - 

World Bank Conference 

- Analysis Capacity - National Democratic 

Project - 

National Democratic Open Society Institute for 

World Bank 

Institute for Institute 



3,79% 1,74% 16,65% 1,84% 100,00% 

29,24% 

Money and Politics - National Democratic Institute for 


Money and Politics - Canadian International Development 

Agency 

Fair Elections in 2004 - National Democratic Institute for 


Integrity in Local Public Administratiob - MATRA 

Program of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs 

through TransFORMA Foundation 

Institutional Development of APD 2004-2006 - C.S. Mott 

Lessons on Elections in Romania and Ukraine - Open 

Society Foundation 

Techincal Assistance for a World Bank Project 

- Banca Mondială 

Electoral Refom in Romania - Conference - National 

Democratic institute for International Affairs 

Electoral Reform in Romania - National Democratic 

Institute for International Affairs 

Improving APD's Research and Policy Analysis Capacity 

- Open Society Institute

Charles Stewart 

Mott Foundation 

Balkan Trust for 

Democracy 

Open Society 

Foundation 

Local Councils 

National Youth 

Agency 

European Unionea - 

Socrates Grundtvig 

Local Bussines 

Companies 

11,79% 16,03% 11,46% 1,89% 3,48% 8,38% 0,87% 


Deventer 

Municipality 

National Endowment 

for Democracy 

International 

Republican 

Institute 

1,77% 0,18% 43,62% 0,53% 100,00% 


Balkan Trust for Democracy 

Open Society Foundation 

Local Councils 

National Agency for Youth 

European Unionea - Socrates Grundtvig 

Local Bussines Companies 


Deventer Municipality 


International Republican 

Institute

Total Income 1.125.011 lei $386.111 100% 

Member fees and contributions 

Donations 

Sponsorships 

Bank interest 

Grants and non-reimbursable loans 

Income from non-profit activities 

Income from bank deposits 

Incomes from differences in the exchange rates 

2.366 lei 

333.788 lei 

25.588 lei 

3.982 lei 

553.144 lei 

201.738 lei 

910 lei 

3.495 lei 

$812 

$114.558 

$8.782 

$1.367 

$189.842 

$69.238 

$312 

$1.200 

0,21% 

29,67% 

2,27% 

0,35% 

49,17% 

17,93% 

0,08% 

0,31%

Total expenses 1.154.431 lei $396.208 100% 

Wages of the permanent staff 183.658 lei $63.033 15,91% 

Wage taxes for the permanent staff 64.722 lei $22.213 5,61% 

Collaborator fees (including taxes) 71.559 lei $24.559 6,20% 

Protocol 7.494 $2.572 0,65% 

Utilities 

5.003 $1.717 0,43% 

Repairs and maintenance 

2.308 $792 0,20% 

Rent 

26.749 $9.180 2,32% 

Penalties and fines 

2.701 $927 0,23% 

Travel 

63.691 $21.859 5,52% 

Transportation 

149.481 lei $51.303 12,95% 

Equipment 

56.490 lei $19.388 4,89% 

Contributions and fees owed by 

non-profit legal body 

54.549 lei $18.722 4,73% 

Amortization and 

Consumables 

Telecomunications 

Expenses with differences in the exchange rates 

Bank services 

Consultancy fees 

273 lei 

122.778 lei 

67.388 lei 

34.998 lei 

5.090 lei 

235.499 lei 

$94 0,02% 

$42.138 10,64% 

$23.128 5,84% 

$12.012 3,03% 

$1.747 0,44% 

$80.825 20,40%

These are the APD branches where our volunteers 

and members are active. Each Club has a Committee 

and a President, elected by the General Assembly of 

the Club. 

In 2005, Asociaţia Pro Democraţia had 30 Clubs in 28 

counties and Bucharest. Seven of them (Bacău, 

Bucureşti, Braşov, Cluj-Napoca, Focşani, Râmnicu 

Vâlcea şi Timişoara) are Clubs that coordinate the 

activity of theAssociation at regional level. 

Club Alexandria 

Adres s: 3 Confederaţiei St., Postal code 140078, 

Alexandria, Teleorman County 

Phon e: +4 0247 / 316 178 

Fax: +4 0247 / 316 315 

E-mail: apd.alexandria@apd.ro 

President: Daniel Dincă 

Club Arad 

Address: 9 Avram Iancu Sq. , ap t. 7, Postal code 

310099, Arad, Arad County 

Phon e: +4 0722 995 062 

Fax: +4 0257 / 214 182 

E-mail: apd.arad@apd.ro 

President: Narcis Bosneac 

Club Bacău - Regional Resource Center 

Address: 10 Mihai Eminescu St. , rm. 6-7, 

Bacău, Bacău 

County 

Mail: OP. 1 CP.4, Bacău, Bacău 

Couty 

Phon e: +4 0234 / 570 057 

E-mail: apd.bacau@apd.ro 

President: Nicoleta Vatman 

Regional coordinator: Costică 

Topală 

Club Baia Mare 

Phon e: +4 0745 602 749 

E-mail: apd.baiamare@apd.ro 

President: Liviu Bozga (ad interim) 

Club Bistriţa 

Phon e: +4 0744 299 712 

E-mail: apd.bistrita@apd.ro 

President: Lucian Suciu 

Club Botoşani 

Address: 9 Marchian St. , rm. 12, Botoşani, 

Botoşani 

County 

Phon e: +4 0231 / 532 717 

Fax: +4 0231 / 532 717 

E-mail: apd.botosani@apd.ro 

President: Dumitru Aionesei 

Club Brăila 

Addres s: 46 Mihai Eminescu St. , Brăila, Brăila 

County 

Phon e: +4 0239 / 611 381 

E-mail: apd.braila@apd.ro 

President: Maricela Mrejeru 

Club Braşov - Regional resource Center 

Addres s: 3 Mihail Sadoveanu St. , Braşov, Braşov 

County 

Phon e: +4 0268 / 475 992, +4 0268 / 410 192 

Fax: +4 0268 / 475 992 

E-mail: apd.brasov@apd.ro 

President: Bogdan Lazăr 

Regional coordinator: Horaţiu Iancu 

Club Breaza 

Addres s: 6 Parcului Alley, bl. 6, ap t. 9, Postal code 

105400, Breaza, Prahova County 

Phon e: +4 0244 / 343 177 

E-mail: apd.breaza@apd.ro 

Club Bucureşti - Regional Resource Center 

Address: 17 Mareşal Al. Averescu Blvd. , Building 7, 

3 rd floor, District 1, Bucharest 

Phon e/Fax: +4 021 / 222 82 45, +4 021 / 222 82 54 

E-mail: apd.bucuresti@apd.ro 

Web: http://bucuresti.apd.ro 

President: Andreas Stamate 

Regional coordinator:Sorina Bunescu / Ana-Maria 

Moşneagu 

Club Caracal 

Address: 64 Decebal St. , Postal code 

235200, 

Caracal, Olt County 

Phon e: +4 0742 466 434 

Fax: +4 0249 / 514 254 

E-mail: apd.caracal@apd.ro 

President: Mişu Slătculescu 

Club Cluj-Napoca - Regional Resource Center 

Address: 71 General Traian Moşoiu St. , 4 th floor, 

rm. 2, Postal code 

400132, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj 

County 

Phon e/Fax: +4 0264 / 597 316 

E-mail: apd.cluj@apd.ro 

President: Gabriel Bădescu 

Regional coordinator: Iulia Georgescu 

Club Constanţa 

Address: 12 Mercur St. , Postal code 

900699, 

Constanţa, Constanţa County 

Mail: OP 1, CP 124, 

Constanţa, Constanţa County 

Phon e: +4 0720 414 908 

E-mail: apd.constanta@apd.ro 

President: Ramona Oană 

Club Craiova 

Address: 13 M. Kogălniceanu St. , Craiova, Dolj 

County 

Phon e: +4 0251 / 510 235 

Fax: +4 0251 / 510 235 

E-mail: apd.craiova@apd.ro 

Preşedinte: 

Carla Stoica

Club Focşani - Regional Resource Center 

Addres s: 9 Republicii Blvd. , 3 rd floor, Focşani, 

Vrancea County 

Phon e: +4 0237 / 621 306 

Fax: +4 0237 / 621 306 

E-mail: apd.focsani@apd.ro 

President: Gabriela Obodariu 

Regional coordinator: Ciprian Bobeică 

Club Galaţi 

Addres s: 2 C-tin Brâncoveanu St. , bl. DL1, 

Entrance. 2, 1 st floor, ap t. 40, Postal code 

80058, 

Galaţi, Galaţi County 

Phon e: +4 0236 / 463 701 

Fax: +4 0236 / 463 101 

E-mail: apd.galati@apd.ro 

President: Tiber Gheorghe 

Club Iaşi 

Addres s: 7 Copou Alley, ap t. 3, Postal code 

700460, Iaşi, Iaşi 

County 

Phon e: +4 0232 / 415 125, +4 0740 129 690 

E-mail: apd.iasi@apd.ro 

President: Diana Andron 

Club Lupeni 

Addres s: OP.1, CP.9, Postal code 

335600, 

Lupeni, Hunedoara County 

Phon e: +4 0254 / 562 463 

E-mail: apd.lupeni@apd.ro 

President: Gabriela Chiorcea 

Club Miercurea-Ciuc 

Phon e: +4 0266 / 310 437 

Fax: +4 0266 / 310 437 

E-mail: apd.mciuc@apd.ro 

President: Adam Olbert 

Club Oneşti 

Addres s: Emil Rebreanu St. , bl. 5, ap t. 2, 

Postal code 601610, Oneşti, Bacău 

County 

Phon e: +4 0747 414 660 

Fax: +4 0234 314 477 

E-mail: apd.onesti@apd.ro 

President: Liviu Neagoe 

Club Oradea 

Addres s: 27 Nicolae Jiga St. , ap t. 2, 

Oradea, Bihor County 

Phon e: +4 0743 / 515 243 

E-mail: apd_ 

oradea@yahoo.com 

President: Alexandru Simon 

Club Piatra-Neamţ 

Addres s: 3 Mihail Kogălniceanu Sq. , 1 st floor, 

rm. 16, Piatra-Neamţ, Neamţ County 

Phon e: +4 0233 / 229 656 

Fax: +4 0233 / 229 656 

E-mail: apdpiatraneamt@ 

ambra.ro 

President: Cristian Savin 

Club Ploieşti 

Addres s: 12 Maramureş St. , 6 th floor, Ploieşti, 

Prahova County 

Phon e: +4 0722 442 675 

E-mail: apd.ploiesti@apd.ro 

President: Denisa Dumitrescu 

Club Râmnicu Vâlcea - Regional Resource Center 

Addres s: 1 Tineretului Blvd. , 5 th floor, Postal code 

240060, Rm. Vâlcea, Vâlcea County 

Phon e: +4 0350 / 401 785 

Fax: +4 0350 / 401 784 

E-mail: apd.rmvalcea@apd.ro 

President: Ramona Bercea Teodorescu 

Regional coordinator: Corina Iordache 

Club Reşiţa 

Addres s: 7 1 Decembrie 1918 Sq. , 2 nd floor, 

Postal code 320067, Reşiţa, Caraş 

Severin County 

Phon e: +4 0255 / 220 773 

E-mail: apd.resita@apd.ro 

President: Dumitru Bogoevici 

Club Sibiu 

Addres s: Vasile Milea Blvd. , bl. P1, entrance . D, 

ap t. 64, Postal code 550331, Sibiu, Sibiu County 

Phon e: +4 0269 / 212 999 

Fax: +4 0269 / 212 999 

E-mail: apd.sibiu@apd.ro 

President: Stanca Ungureanu 

Club Suceava 

Addres s: 14 Ion Creang ă St. , Postal code 

720011, 

Suceava, Suceava County 

Phon e: +4 0230 / 551 566 

Fax: +4 0230 / 551 567 

E-mail: apd.suceava@apd.ro 

President: 

Ştefan Puşcaşu 

Club Timişoara - Regional Resource Center 

Addres s: 

33 Ştefan cel Mare St. , Timişoara, Timiş 

County 

Mail: OP 1, CP 475, Timişoara, Timiş 

County 

Phon e: +4 0256 / 201 488 

Fax: +4 0256 / 201 488 

E-mail: apd.timisoara@apd.ro 

Web: http://timisoara.prodemocratia.org 

President: Liviu Pop 

Regional coordinator: Cristian Bratu 

Club Tulcea 

Addres s: 8 Mihai Eminescu St. , Postal code 

820152, Tulcea, Tulcea County 

Phon e: +4 0240 / 516 215 

E-mail: apd.tulcea@apd.ro 

President: Adrian Pal 

Club Ţăndărei 

Addres s: Bucureşti St. , bl. 52H, entrance C, ap t. 8, 

Ţăndărei, 

Ialomiţa County 

Phon e: +4 0243 / 273 552 

Fax: +4 0243 / 273 552 

E-mail: apd.tandarei@apd.ro 

President: Floarea Sava 

Club Zimnicea 

Addres s: Mihai Viteazu St. , bl. 18C, entrance C, 1st 

floor, ap t . 2, Zimnicea, Teleorman County 

Phon e: +4 0247 / 368 229 

E-mail: apd.zimnicea@apd.ro 

President: Dorin Prună

APD is run by a Board consisting of seven 

members (incldinf the President), elected by the 

APD GeneralAssembly for a two-year mandate. 

In 2005, the membership of the Board was the 

following: 

Before the APD General Assembly, September 

23-25, 2005: 

President: 

Membes 

r : 

Cristian Pîrvulescu 

Oana Bahnaru Preda 

Dorin Berbescu 

Bucur Bogdan 

Vasile Chiru 

Cornel Negrea 

Florin Nicola 

After the APD General Assembly, September 

23-25, 2005: 

President: 

Membes 

r : 

Cristian Pîrvulescu 

Bucur Bogdan 

Sorina Bunescu 

Paul Chioveanu 

Vasile Chiru 

Cornel Negrea 

Adrian Tămaş 

NCC is the executive structure of the Association. 

Located in Bucharest, it coordinates APD's activities at 

national level. 

I n 2005 , the NCC staff was the following: 

Adrian Sorescu - Executive Director 

Costel Popa - Deputy Director 

Victoriţa Meiroşu - Financial Director 

Doranda Bârsan - Financial Assistant 

Mioara Hrebenciuc - Network Coordinator 

Andreea Sorescu / Florin Poenaru - PR Coordinator 

Ionuţ Găzdaru / Constantin Mârza - IT Manager 

Mihai Ştefănescu - Staff Assistant 

Regional Coordinators 

Ciprian Bobeică 

Coordinator Region 2 (South-East) 

Cristian Bratu 

Coordinator Region 5 ( West) 

Iulia Georgescu 

Coordinator Region 6 (North-West) 

Horaţiu Iancu 

Coordinator Region 

7 (Center) 

Corina Iordache 

Coordinator Region 

4 (South-West) 

Costică Topală 

Coordinator Region 1 (North-East) 

Sorina Bunescu / Ana-Maria Moşneagu 

Coordinator Region 3 (Sou th) 

and Region 8 (Buc harest)

Asociaţia Pro Democraţia 

Mareşal Averescu Blvd. 17 

Pavilion F, 3rd Floor 

Sector 1 

011454 Bucharest 

Tel./fax: (+4021) 222 82 45 

(+4021) 222 82 54 

Mobil e: (+4) 0744 688 163 

(+4) 0723 152 493 

E-mail: apd@ apd.ro 

Web: www.apd.ro

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