Ethics adviser: balance and integrity in the public administration

GENERAL OBJECTIVE

Ensuring the integrity in the public administration of Romania.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

Increasing the capacity of the ethics advisors to ensure integrity and to monitor the compliance with the Code of Conduct in their institutions and developing of the cooperation between the local NGOs and the ethics advisers;
Developing tools of data collection, available to the ethics advisers.

MAIN ACTIVITIES

Analysis at the national level of the situation and the application of the legislation on civil servants appointed to make the ethics advisory and monitoring the compliance with the rules of conduct,
Elaborating a guide for ethics advisers,
Providing training for the ethics advisers and the local NGOs,
Pilot application of working tools for the ethics advisers,
Information dissemination within the round tables and press conferences.

RESULTS

An analysis report of the situation on the enforcement of the legislation regarding the ethics advisers,
Increasing the number of the public authorities to implement the law on the appointment of a civil servant on the ethics advisory and monitoring the compliance with the rules of conduct,
Two training sessions for 40 ethics advisers, 6 NGO’s representatives and 4 journalists,
Tools on the data collection and reports regarding the civil servants’, citizens’ and enterprises’ view on the public administration’s integrity.

IMPLEMENTATION PERIOD

April 2009 – June 2010

PARTNERS

Pro Democracy Association

FUNDING

Governments of Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein and Norway through the European Economic Area Financial Mechanism

BUDGET

77.960 EUR

OTHERS

Research Report: Ethics and compliance in the Romanian business sector

Round table to launch the “Report regarding the enforcement of the legislation on the ethics counselors”

Training sessions for ethics counselors within the public administration

Round Table: “Milestones and support to ensuring ethics and integrity in the public administration”