II. PLAN DE CUIDADOS EN SALUD DEL NIÑO
3. Estado nutricional
According to Chapter 21 provisions “Regional Policy and Coordination of Structural Instruments”, recommendations of monitoring missions from the European Commission DG Regional Policy and DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities as well as the provisions of the Council General Regulation regarding Structural and Cohesion Funds on the partnership principle in programming process, the Sectoral Operational Programme HRD was elaborated within an extended partnership process.
As a whole, the consultation process provides the support from the social partners as regards the human resources development in the next years. The dialogue aimed at the following:
· Obtaining partners agreement on the development of priority objectives; · Ensuring the transparency of the elaboration process;
· An increasing commitment and involvement of partners.
As the institution responsible for European Social Fund management and coordinator of Sectoral Operational Programme for Human Resources Development elaboration, the Ministry of Labour, Family and Equal Opportunities, through the Managing Authority SOP HRD, initiated the consultation process with the relevant institutions at central and local level, as well as with social partners and NGOs active in the social field.
The interinstitutional partnership involved Ministry of Economy and Finance, Ministry of Education, Research and Youth, Ministry for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, Trade, Tourism and Liberal Professions, Ministry of Public Health, National Agency for Employment, National Institute for Research in the field of Labour and Social Protection, the AntiPoverty Commission and Promoting Social Inclusion, the National Training Board for Adults, the National Agency for Roma, the National Agency for Equal Opportunities between Women and Men, the National Authority for Disabled People, the National Agency for Family Protection, the National House for Pensions and other Social Insurance Rights, the Labour Inspection, other line ministries and relevant agencies.
Moreover, the consultations included the social partners and representatives of civil society. These consultations took the form of a concentrated cooperation, as it happened with the group of NGOs constantly active nearby the MoLFEO, which are permanently active in the legal consultations initiated by the ministry. At the same time, there were invited for consultations various NGOs with expertise in the social field, as in the case of the meetings organized in Bucharest or at regional level.
With a view to giving greater significance to the consultations with the organisations involved, MA SOP HRD organized thematic meetings for submitting the SOP HRD to public debates. Thus, there were organised separate meetings with trade unions and employers organisations and representatives of NGOs active in the following areas: child protection and youths over 18 years old who leave the state system for child protection; protection of disabled people; Roma population; equal opportunities between women and men; business environment. Thus, an active participation was registered from the part of social partners and civil society, as regards the suggestions made on strengthening the institutional capacity of social partners and
nongovernmental organisations, as well as for the integration and reentry on the labour market of vulnerable groups.
The dialogue with social partners brought on the front line the need to boost the interest of employers and other stakeholders in increasing investments in human resources and increasing the corporate social responsibility. Moreover, the joint consultations with employers’ organisations and trade unions indicated the need for further investments in transforming informal work in formal employment, promoting raising awareness campaigns and supporting measures to formalize the labour relations.
The civil society representatives also showed great interest in promoting ESF operations on strengthening local and social partnerships, improving NGOs capacity to facilitate the access to public information and support initiatives for shaping civic responsibility, through participation in public debates.
At the same time, promoting active employment measures for people occupied in subsistence agriculture benefited largely by the previous experience of NGOs which carried out programmes for the (re)integration on the labour market of inactive people, particularly those affected by hidden unemployment in rural areas.
Equally, NGOs made a valuable contribution during the elaboration of the key area of intervention on the development of social economy, bringing forth operations on developing the necessary tools and mechanisms to fully implement the concept of social economy, operations on promoting employability and adaptability of low skilled people and disabled people, as well as raising awareness campaigns in the field of social economy.
More operations were included following the open consultations with the social partners and civil society representatives as regards the increased access of women on the labour market and the promotion of campaigns on nonstereotypes gender role, health culture, fighting against trafficking human beings, domestic violence etc. Social partners and NGOs made also an input with regard to transnational initiatives and partnerships at European level, as concerns the development of new methods for combating discrimination and inequalities on the labour market.
More meetings were organised at regional level, together with the Regional Development Agencies and the County Agencies for Employment, where there was a large attendance from the representatives of local councils, prefects’ offices, town halls, local agencies for employment, county school inspectorates, universities and business environment – trade unions and employers’ organisations – and civil society (associations, foundations, other NGOs).
Another target group was the NGOs with history in accessing Phare Funds, as an informed segment of future project promoters, but also the NGOs experienced in providing social services at national and local level, interested in the ESF funding.
These meetings were organised in several stages in the city centres of the Development Regions, i.e. Bucharest, Călăraşi, Craiova, Timişoara, ClujNapoca, Alba Iulia, Piatra Neamţ, Brăila, by MA SOP HRD and IB SOP HRD. Besides that, there were held information sessions in other cities such as: Bistriţa, Ploieşti, Târgu Jiu, Turnu Severin, Sinaia, Oradea, Constanţa, Iaşi, Deva, Slatina, Sibiu a/o.
MA SOP HRD also participated in the Caravans organised by the Ministry of Economy and Finance in the 8 development regions, which aimed at promoting NDP 20072013, NSRF 20072013 and the Operational Programmes.
During January – November 2006 and then during March 2007 the series of meetings with civil society intensified and communications on the SOP HRD were provided to the Association of Cities in Romania, the Association of Municipalities in Romania, to professional associations and other groups involved in the development of human resources belonging to business.
Furthermore, the electronic version of the SOP HRD was posted on the MoLFEO internet webpage, so that local authorities, NGOs, companies, individuals interested in the Programme be able to send their comments.
The result of these consultations materialized in proposals for improving the socioeconomic analysis, the SWOT analysis, the Strategy, as well as the fields of interventions and the indicative operations included in the SOP HRD. Approximately 1,000 entities were involved in the consultation process and most of their suggestions were taken on board.