Transparency and Accountability Program

TAP's mission is to increase the capacity of civil society organizations to reduce corruption and better hold government accountable for efficiency in social sector public spending

Romanian Academic Society

Website:

http://www.sar.org.ro

Grant Program:

TAP Phase 1 Round 2

Grantee Location:

Romania

Location

Romania

Research by the Romanian Academic Society (SAR) focused on the Romanian government’s efforts to improve the education system’s responsiveness to local needs by decentralizing financing. To start the process, the Romanian government began a pilot program in 2005 in eight of Romania’s 41 counties; the goal is full decentralization by 2010. SAR examined the effects of this decentralization in 32 schools in four of the eight pilot counties. They found that the impact has been very limited. Budgeting is still highly centralized, and school budgets are set much as they have been in the past: rather than using decentralized decision-making to take contextual factors and specific school needs into account, school budgets tend simply to mirror budgets from previous years. This system of resource allocation preserves an unfair distribution of funding. SAR also found troubling intransparency in the way money is allocated.

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