- Bucharest, Romania
Adriana Negut
The Research Institute for Quality of Life, Research, Department Member
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In 2014, European countries began implementing the Youth Guarantee Programme (YGP), one of the European Commission’s most important initiatives designed to combat the issue of youth unemployment. This led to a decrease in the number of... more
In 2014, European countries began implementing the Youth Guarantee Programme (YGP), one of the European Commission’s most important initiatives designed to combat the issue of youth unemployment. This led to a decrease in the number of young NEETs over the subsequent 6 years. Based on data concerning the extent and size of the NEETs phenomenon at the European level, the number of NEETs who benefit from various measures, and data regarding programmes for NEETs financed by ESF, this paper presents an overview of the YGP implementation in Romania during the 2014−2020 period. It does so by identifying the main challenges and barriers that prevented the achievement of the proposed results. In that regard, the main barriers in the implementation of YGP in Romania are related to the lack of coordination of measures between institutions; a lack of flexibility in registering young NEETs; low levels of partnership with local authorities, companies, and NGOs; delays in funding measures; and a lack of centralised monitoring data in order to provide a picture of progress and thus necessary improvement measures.
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The ‘Social Inclusion through the Provision of Integrated Services at Community Level’ model was developed by UNICEF with the aim of providing an adequate response to the social challenges occurring in the national socioeconomic context... more
The ‘Social Inclusion through the Provision of Integrated Services at Community Level’ model was developed by UNICEF with the aim of providing an adequate response to the social challenges occurring in the national socioeconomic context of 2013, seriously affected by the economic crisis which resulted in increased poverty rates, with more than 40% of Romania’s total population and 49% of the child population being at risk of poverty and social exclusion (EUROSTAT, 2015). One of the main challenges for vulnerable groups is access to health, education and social protection services. The model seeks to deliver a package of integrated services at community level for children and their families to reduce their social exclusion.
The goal of the model is to provide technical assistance to the Romanian Government with the aim of placing children on the public agenda and contributing to public policy development in the areas of health, education and child protection.
The goal of the model is to provide technical assistance to the Romanian Government with the aim of placing children on the public agenda and contributing to public policy development in the areas of health, education and child protection.
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In the context in which rural areas represent 92% of the EU territory and gather over 50% of the EU population, and many rural areas face significant challenges such as migration and aging, reduced access to services, poor infrastructure... more
In the context in which rural areas represent 92% of the EU territory and gather over 50% of the EU population, and many rural areas face significant challenges such as migration and aging, reduced access to services, poor infrastructure or reduced employment opportunities, the concerns for rural development and improved quality of life in these areas have increased. Rural development is one of the strategic objectives of the European Union, which is pointed out by the consistent financial allocations: over a third of the total available funds at EU level between 2007 and 2013, and an estimated 38% for 2014-2020. The main institutional mechanism to support the development of rural areas in Romania was represented by the implementation of the National Rural Development Programme 2007-2013 (NRDP) financed by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development. In the absence of other major government initiatives for rural development, the absorption of EU funds has been the main funding opportunity after 2007, for the initiatives of modernizing the Romanian rural areas. Based on a mix of secondary data analysis and the analysis of official documents provided by The Agency for Financing Rural Investment, the article aims to examine how the public investments program was carried out under the measure 322 of the NRDP, to identify its strong and weak points and its impact on rural infrastructure.
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Progress in cardiovascular surgery led at about 85% of children with congenital heart disease to survive at the adult age. Increased survival rates of patients with congenital heart disease, through improved medical results, has led to... more
Progress in cardiovascular surgery led at about 85% of children with congenital heart disease to survive at the adult age. Increased survival rates of patients with congenital heart disease, through improved medical results, has led to intensifying concerns for quality of life of children with this diagnosis. Based on a literature review, the paper describes the main factors influencing the quality of life of children with congenital heart defects and also brings into question the necessity of evaluating the health of children with this medical condition in order to substantiate ways of treatment and measures to increase the quality of life of children and their families.
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Debates on sustainable development have intensified due to social, economic and environmental changes. Sustainability has become an integral element in the development strategies of many organisations, an evaluation criterion for project... more
Debates on sustainable development have intensified due to social, economic and environmental changes. Sustainability has become an integral element in the development strategies of many organisations, an evaluation criterion for project proposals or efficient allocation of funds, an important element on the school curriculum, especially in business schools, and even a research topic. The interest in the sustainability of social enterprises covers two main directions: on the one hand, more broadly, the contribution of these structures, which are regarded as sustainability-driven business models (Alter, 2007; NEEsT; Borzaga, Depedri&Tortia, 2014), to sustainable development, and on the other hand, the survival of these organisations in the context of their extremely high dependence on donors. Considering the still non-unified definitions of social economy and social enterprise at national level, and the large number of newly established social enterprises, in Romania concerns seem to be directed more towards the second perspective on sustainability, the survival of a social enterprise after the funding ends being one of the biggest challenges. This paper is an introduction to the sustainability of social enterprises and summarizes the theoretical framework of sustainable development and sustainability; it also presents some of the elements that will form the basis for future qualitative research.