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Establishment Staff Budget Achievements Projects Expertise
Donors Contact address

Year of Establishment:
1991

Current Staff:
Lucian Ionescu, CO Director
Magdalena Chitu, Project Manager
Oana Boingeanu, Project Manager
Oana Penu, Project Coordinator
Bogdan Constantin Barbu, Project Assistant
Alexandru Penu, IT Administrator
Steluta Dumitru, Office Administrator

Operational Budget in 2002: 
EUR 81,320

Major Achievements:
The Romanian Country Office was among the firstly established REC offices in the Region. Since the early beginnings of Romania’s transition to democracy, the grants schemes, the support for networking and training programs managed by REC Romania, ensured the emergence and growth of a genuine, diverse and active community of environmental NGOs. This NGO support mandate continues to be high on the priorities list of the Country Office, bearing in mind that Romanian government should engage in an open dialogue with the environmental civil society, on matters related to the EU Accession.

Strategic partnerships have also been constantly created since 2000, with the Ministry of Environment and Waters Management, and its network of Regional and Local Environmental Agencies, who have benefited from the growing expertise of the Office in Climate Change, Waste Management, Public Participation in Water Management and Environmental investment planning - all these topic areas are of high importance for achieving conformity with EU Acquis.

Not of least importance, the technical assistance provided to local authorities in the form of LEAPs, as cooperative planning mechanisms to promote sustainability and the know-how transferred to the business sector, in areas of: Environmental Management Systems, Energy Efficiency have improved the REC profile among these stakeholders, while in the same time, enabled REC to better understand the challenges and needs on the ground, arising from the implementation of different EU Directives and Multilateral Environmental Agreements.

Main Projects:

• Technical Assistance for the elaboration of environmental cost assessment and investment plan (December 2003- July 2005)
  The objective of this project is to assist MEWM in implementing the EU environmental legislation in Romania, by means of a sound environmental financing strategy and models for feasible environmental investment projects.
• Elaborating, Adopting and Implementing of LEAP for Olt County (November 2003- October 2004)
  The LEAP for Olt County aimed to identify and evaluate local environmental problems and find solutions to solve them by involving all community stakeholders.
• A green business-approach for the Development of Rural Communities: the case of Brad Area (February 2004- November 2004)
  The project promoted the development of organic farming and rural tourism pensions as green alternatives for the economic recovery of Brad areas - a small, historic center of mining, which has declined after 1989.
• European Practices in Environmental Management (December 2003- August 2004)
  This training project transfer/ed up-to-date knowledge on EMAS and Eco-Labeling to 30 Associations of Entrepreneurs in Romania.
• Elaboration of a Feasibility Study for the Utilization of Landfill Gas at Parta Sag- Timisoara Landfill (October 2003- March 2004)
  The project provided a clear technical and financial evaluation of the potential for capturing the biogas emission at the Timisoara City Landfill (Parta Sag), including most suitable utilization options of the methane gas.

Country Office Expertise:
NGO grants management
NGO support though its information dissemination services, capacity
building activities and training session on specific issues
European integration
European environmental and regional development legislation and policies
International environmental cooperation
International financing sources for environment related projects
Project management cycle
Training on environmental issues
LEAP (training, guides and manuals)

Donors for Projects:
Phare, Phare Access;
Japan Babk for International Cooperation;
USAID - GRASP;
DEFRA - Embassy;
ECORom Ambalaje

Contact address:
Episcop Timus 4, sector 1, 011612
Bucharest, Romania
tel: (40 21) 316 7344, (40 21) 316 7345
fax: (40 21) 316 7264
e -mail: rec@recromania.ro

Related information:

Map of Romania

UNEP-Infoterra Romania: Environmental Information Section

StrawberryNet: Romanian Environmental NGO Network

Country Report 
(31 pages, 730-KByte MS Word file, general introduction and transport telematics, November 1998)

The Government of Romania

This page was last updated: 
August 2004

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