Romania - 2023 Country Profile
Read our latest 2023 country profile with feedback from our member from Romania This country profile is taken from "Children's Rights: Political will or won't?" , our 2023 report on children…
read moreRead our latest 2023 country profile with feedback from our member from Romania This country profile is taken from "Children's Rights: Political will or won't?" , our 2023 report on children…
read moreEurochild recently published a new report, (In)visible children, on the situation of children in need across Europe. Read feedback from our members from Romania on the European Semester, on EU…
read moreRomania has made important progress over the past years in delivering some early childhood development (ECD)policies and in supporting families with young children. Government commitment enforce for early childhood education…
read moreThe first restrictive measure imposed by the government in Romania was to close down schools in March 2020. They remained closed until June 2020, with only a few exceptions1. This unprecedented…
read moreAdor Copiii Association is a non-governmental organisation founded in 2004, that has been at the forefront of adoption activism and service provision since 2008. Ador Copiii Association contributes to the development of the children protection system, to the creation of social and effective adoption services and to improving the quality of life of vulnerable children.
Institutionalised Youth Council (CTI) is a Youth-led Organisation focusing on institutional care, care leavers and child protection systems based in Romania. CTI has long-lasting experience in the field of defending and promoting the rights of the institutionalised young people currently or not (post-institutionalized) in the special protection system and increasing their active participation in their communities. Most of their team has first-hand experience as care leavers. CTI has great experience working with children and including them to events and public speaking. They are also known their active policy making effort which resulted more than 200 amendments in the last year in the area of deinstitutionalization. CTI is the member of the European Care Leavers Network and the Federation of Non-Governmental Organizations for Children (FONPC) in Romania also Eurochild member. The current President of the organization is Mr. Andreeas Novacovici.
FARA Foundation’s mission is to transform the lives of marginalized children and young people from Romania’s poorest communities. It aims at providing a loving family, specialist therapy, access to education and training and preventing homelessness.
Founded in 1997, the Federation of NGOs for Children acts for the benefit of children and community by promoting and monitoring children rights. It aims at ensuring the inclusion of children’s rights in all public policies and the implementation of a national monitoring system. The Federation gathers about 100 NGOs.
Hope and Homes for Children in Romania is focused on reforming the childcare system by closing down old state institutions for children and by developing a range of family-based childcare services. Preventing separation of children from their families, reintegrating children back into their birth or extended families, social reinsertion of youngsters leaving care, social audit and training and technical assistance are part of their focus as well.
Friends of Children Romania is working with children living in care. They are committed to support families in difficult situation and vulnerable children. They work in partnership with the Child Protection Directorate – the county authority responsible for supervising child protection in Bacau which is a rural area close to Moldova where the organization operates. They provide quality care for children in their homes (have two residential homes 7 children each) and they have a solid work ethics (this was acknowledged several times by the Bacau CPD Director in his discussions with HHC). They are committed to respecting children’s rights and to encourage and foster child participation, supporting the integration of children in local communities.
Justice for Minors is an NGO formed by a group of professionals with over 15 years of experience in the field of juvenile justice. It collaborates with experts in legal field, lawyer, mediators, psychologists and experts in child behaviour and social assistance experts. Their activities are based on guaranteeing and protecting children’s and family’s rights and improving the national and European justice system safeguarding the children’s best interest. They have gathered a working group of legal professionals that share the same feedbacks and goal in developing a network platform with access to all judicial communications related to cases that involve children.
Casa Bună currently works with about 300 children from vulnerable communities in and near Bucharest, and in 2 rural locations in Arges county. Although children in Romania have the right to education, healthcare, and adequate living conditions, in practice many children from vulnerable communities are excluded or have difficulty in accessing these rights. Casa Bună works on 4 main areas: education, health, vocation, and wellbeing.
Children from all over the EU will gather in Bucharest to present their commitment and to call on the leaders of EU Member States to make child participation a priority…
Care Leavers in Romania have been participating directly with decision-makers to implement better and more effective guidelines to help those in, and about to leave, care. The reform of the…
DataCare National Correspondent, Daniela Tarnovschi, explains how statistical data can help inform decisions and design effective public policies Over the past year, Eurochild, in partnership with UNICEF ECARO, has worked…
Eurochild member FONPC hosts a debate on EU funds to support Ukrainian refugees’ integration with EU and national policymakers and civil society at the European Parliament. A Romanian case study…
More than 200 experts attended FONPC and Eurochild’s international conference on the European civil society’s humanitarian response to the integration of refugees and asylum-seeking children from Ukraine. The Federation of…
An analysis by Eurochild member Hope and Homes for Children Romania. The Romanian Government adopted on the 31st of October 2023 the National Plan for the Implementation of the Child…
Blog by Ioana Calinescu, co-founder of the Museum of Abandonment, a socio-cultural civil society organisation participating in Eurochild member FONPC’s Ukraine humanitarian aid response programme. The Museum of Abandonment is a…
Eurochild member FONPC won an Excellence Award at the Welfare Gala in Romania with the Help to Help Ukraine project, a story about helping and understanding. The Welfare Gala in…
On 20 March 2024, Eurochild participated in the inaugural Romanian National Education Day at the European Parliament, co-organised by MEP Victor Negrescu and the Romanian Federation Coalition for Education. As…
10-11 JANUARY 2024, BUCHAREST. Eurochild and FONPC are organising an international conference to share good practices and lessons on how civil society can facilitate the integration of refugee and asylum-seeking…