Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 15th NISPAcee Annual Conference Program Overview VII. Working Group on Capacity Building of Civil Servants... Author(s) Ruxandra Irina Popescu Bucharest University of Economic Studies Bucharest Romania Miroiu Adrian, - Ruxandra Irina POPESCU, University Lecturer Ph.D., Department of Management and Public Administration, Faculty of Management, Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest - Adrian MIROIU, Project coordinator, Romanian Federation of Local Authorities. Title Overview of the Romanian market of training for Romanian civil servants File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Abstract The paper intends to present in an as analytical as possible way what is happening at the end of 2006 on the Romanian training market dedicated to public administration civil servants, in the conditions of the integration in European Union and, as consequences, of a new era of decentralization combined with a lot of rights but mainly duties for the people working for central and local administration. The paper is structured in 3 main parts; the first one is describing the main requests of the civil servants and politicians regarding training and consultancy, the second one is focused on the offer existing on the market and the last one is trying to see if the first two are meeting somewhere but also to make a parallel between the different services provided by the main actors from the training market. First part is focused more on the conclusion of a market analyze developed by a company for the Romanian Federation of Local Authorities in November 2005, which is showing very clear what local authorities (from all levels and from politicians and executives) want to receive from the training and consultancy providers. The results are quite interesting, because it is easy to see the connections between the fields or themes requested and also, it is easy to see what exactly they received until that moment and with what results. Also, this first chapter is based on researches done by different institutions and NGOs in Romania regarding how well prepared are the civil servants for the job they have to do after the integration in European Union. And last, we will talk in this chapter about the legislation and its requirements regarding how many training days a civil servant should have in order to be promoted to a better position, etc. We will point the requirements integrated into the new laws on public administration and public finances, requirements coming from the European integration effects. Second part will describe the offer of different actors active on the Romanian training market: - academic institutions and their offer for civil servants; - the institutions set up by the government for providing training only to civil servants and their offer; - the associations of local authorities from Romania and their offer; - the NGOs and their offer. We will try to clarify in this point the legislation, which is governing the training activities of these organizations but also, the legislation, which is showing how much freedom exists on the training marketing Romania and the level of competition allowed by the laws. The results of this chapter should be an overview on what kind of organizations can and are allowed to provide training for civil servants and their offer and on what the law is saying about this. Third chapter is the one where some conclusions should appear. We are thinking in this moment to gather these conclusions in 2 parts: 1. We will try to see where the civil servants requests and the market offer are meeting; this could be the good part of the analysis. But also, we will try to see where the 2 areas do not meet and to identify solutions for this or to leave the question open for the Conference. 2. We will try to make a parallel between all the products that the market of training for civil servants is offering. This could be an interesting exercise since this market is not coordinated and has no interest to become like this. But the final result of this paper should be, after all, to see how well prepared are the civil servants for implementing their duties after the European integration.
