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 From local solutions to public policies. Methodology
This guide is based on the experience of the integrated community development program acquired along 2 years of which one and half years field activity. The guide is meant for the local, county and regional authorities, for the Roma and non-Roma beneficiaries with whom we work and, last but not least, to the non-governmental organizations interested in his field. We consider that it contributes to the awareness, the re-learning, the critical positioning and the proposal of methods alternative to those presented in here.
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 Effects of migration: Children left at home. Risks and solutions
This second report presents an in-depth analysis of the survey data from the first report (the quantitative research) and it completes it with explanatory data resulted from interviews conducted on local level (qualitative research). The study was launched during a debate analysing the impact of the absence of parents working abroad on the children left back home and aiming to suggest possible solutions to these children's problems. (At the moment, available only in Romanian)
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 The public servants’ statute for good governance
The eight years postponement of the all-in wage scheme Law for the public servants represents one of the most serious and full of consequences arrears in regard to the "public function reform” process in Romania. This is one conclusion of the Public Servants' Status for Good Governance study, launched on Monday, December the 17th, 2007, by the Soros Foundation Romania. (Available only in Romanian).
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 The Impact of Deconcentrated Services of Ministries on Public Policies
The study signals the consequences of a simultaneous application of both the decentralization and deconcentration process, which generates institutional inefficiency, attribution overlapping and, locally, deficiencies inside the public services. The report also approaches the functioning difficulties between deconcentrated services and local public administration authorities, difficulties that most often are the source of institutional block.
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 POB 1998-2007: Romania – the Country of Unhappy Optimists
Romania did not yet escape its status of mainly unhappy society. According to the Public Opinion Barometer – launched on December 6th 2007 by the Soros Foundation Romania – constantly, in the past ten years, the number of those unhappy with their living standards was with at least 19% higher than the number of those satisfied with their condition. The final edition of the Public Opinion Barometer is one dedicated to the changes produced between 1998 and 2007, to the comparative analysis for this time frame.
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 Labor Market in Romania and Immigration
Labor force crisis in Romania will worsen gradually, probably exacerbating towards the end of the 2020s, if steps to counterattack the more and more obvious lack of personnel are not taken, especially in fields such as construction, textile industry and HORECA (hotels, restaurants, cafés).
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 Requirements and Resources within Roma Communities
The present reports come as a result of a scientific processing in order to identify six communities where to implement the Integrated Community Development Program. These reports aimed at identifying the needs and problems of each community and the resources necessary to solve them.
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 Effects of migration: children left at home
115,000 gymnasium students have at least one parent working abroad. Approximately 35,000 of them have both parents abroad, 55,000 have just their mother away and 80,000 have just their father working in a foreign country. The above estimates are part of the study called Effects of Migration: Children Left at Home, launched today, October 2nd 2007, by the Soros Foundation Romania.
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George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary, on August 12, 1930. He survived the Nazi occupation of Budapest and left communist Hungary in 1947 for England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE). While a student at LSE, Soros became familiar with the work of the philosopher Karl Popper, who had a profound influence on his thinking and later on his professional and philanthropic activities.
The financier. In 1956, Soros moved to the United States, where he began to accumulate a large...
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Launch of the study Beneficial Regularisation of Immigration in Romania