Romanians in Development

Romanian Development Camp 2010

corinaciambur — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:01:19 +0000

Romanian Development Camp, Third Edition, 24-27 June 2010, Bucharest and Covasna

ARCADIA is represented at ‘The Romanian Development Camp III:The Millennium Development Goals in Focus-Contributions from the (Re)-Emerging Donors’. ARCADIA co-chairperson Stefan Cibian offers a presentation on Development Studies during the Panel on Development Education and Development Studies: The need of Enhanced Awareness and Involvement. ARCADIA co-chairperson Madalina Pruna is the moderator of the Panel on Policy Coherence: The Horizontal Level.

Global Issues: Paradigm Shift from War to Peace

corinaciambur — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:01:24 +0000

Kai Brand- Jacobsen, Director of the Department of Peace Operations(DPO) of PATRIR gives a TEDxCluj Presentation on Peacebuilding.

ARCADIA Annual Conference 2010

corinaciambur — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:48:37 +0000

The Romanian Association for International Cooperation and Development(ARCADIA) has the pleasure of inviting you to the ARCADIA Annual Conference 2010, which will take place on the 25th and 26th of November 2010, in Bucharest, Romania.

The ARCADIA Annual Conference 2010 will facilitate the dialogue between researchers,scholars, practitioners and policy makers on this years theme:

Development,Trade and Foreign and Security Policy:How can Emerging Donors make a difference?

This events edition has as background the emergence of new donors and the subsequent development of related policies, strategies and institutions.Viewed not only from a governmental and financial point of view, but also from a civil-society standpoint, the implications of donorship prove to be challenging. Therefore, this conference will critically analyze the relations between developing countries and emerging donors from three interrelated perspectives: Development, Trade and Foreign and Security Policy.

Participation is possible in the following ways:

1. Submitting panel proposals consisting of 3 to 6 pages before September 10th, 2010.

2. Submitting workshop proposals consisting of 3 to 6 pages before September 10th,2010.

3. Submitting paper abstracts of max. 300 words before October 1st, 2010.

4. Being part of the audience.

Conference language: Submissions, panels and workshops can be made in English, Romanian or French.

The Application Forms for panel, workshop proposals and individual papers can be found on the Conference website. and should be sent together with a short CV(max. 2 pages) to the following e-mails: arcadia@grspsociety.org and contact@arcadianetwork.org.

The list of accepted panels will be published on the Conference website.

Several partial travel grants are available to students and young researchers. Accommodation can be provided to a limited number of participants.

E-group for the Romanian Development Community – RODEV

stefancibian — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:55:38 +0000

RODEV is aiming to become the e-group of the development community from Romania. The group aims to attract policy makers, practitioners, scholars, students, journalists and anyone else interested in development-related issues.
The e-group provides a platform for communication for the Romanian development community so that information about relevant events/programs/topics can be shared and debates on development related topics can take place.
If interested, please join rodev@googlegroups.com .
Visit the group page.

EXPERO

stefancibian — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:53:48 +0000

Expero – Baza de date cu expertii Romani care lucreaza in domeniul cooperarii pentru dezvoltare / Database with Romanians who work on development cooperation

“Expero este o iniţiativă a Ministerului de Afaceri Externe în colaborare cu PNUD România cu scopul de a facilita accesul la datele experţilor români prezenţi profesional în domeniul cooperarii pentru dezvoltare la nivel naţional și internaţional.” – http://expero.aod.ro/

Consultare on-line pe Raportul: Care sunt avantajele comparative ale României ca stat donator emergent?

stefancibian — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:55:15 +0000

Raportul raspunde intrebarii: Care sunt avantajele comparative ale României ca stat donator emergent?

Detalii despre consultarea on-line si Raportul pot fi accesate la: http://www.aod.ro/raport_avantaje_comparative.html

Termen limita pentru trimiterea sugestiilor: 10 Decembrie 2009.

Romanian ODA Portal

stefancibian — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:48:58 +0000

MAE si UNDP Romania au lansat Portalul AOD Romania – http://www.aod.ro/

Sondaj ODA

stefancibian — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:18:49 +0000

Sondaj de opinie pe ODA in Romania – realizat de PNUD – Martie 2009

First ARCADIA Round Table: Opportunities and challenges for Romania’s engagement in international development – with focus on Africa

stefancibian — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:29:35 +0000

First ARCADIA Round Table:
Opportunities and challenges for Romania’s engagement in international development – with focus on Africa

February18, 2009 – Brussels, Belgium

This event is the first one in a series of events with the objectives of:

- launching the idea of a network of Romanian experts/ professionals/ academia in development with a view of establish on a medium term ARCADIA – the Romanian Association for International Cooperation and Development
- discuss the challenges and opportunities of Romania as a new donor country (New MS’ development policy – NMS making use of the recipient/transition experience to advance development policies)
- discuss the challenges and opportunities for the Romanian-African relations
- to identify new ways to raise public awareness with regards to Romania’s development policy

First ARCADIA Round Table

First ARCADIA Round Table - A. Tanase, A. Bunis, M. Popowski, A. Alexandrescu, S. Cibian

Agenda:
New MS’ development policy from the EC perspective (EU12 making use of the recipient/transition experience to advance development policies) – Maciej Popowski – Director DEV A
The role of MEPs in promoting developing policy issues in EU emerging donors – Corina Cretu – MEP, Member of the Development Commission
Francophon Cooperation in Africa – Ms. Liliana Pasecinik, l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
Romania’s Development Policy – Anca Alexandrescu, Romanian Permanent Representation to the EU
Romanian NGOs doing Development Work – Andra Tanase, PATRIR and FOND
Open discussion – 30-45 min

Romanians in Development

Prue — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:52:56 +0000

Romanians in Development is the Blog of the currently beeing developed Network – ARCADIA: Romanian Association for International Cooperation and Development/Asociatia Romana pentru Cooperare si Dezvoltare Internationala.

ARCADIA aims at bringing together policy makers, scholars, activists with expertise in Development and Romania’s relations with the Developing World.

A first event of the Network , initiated by Madalina Pruna and Stefan Cibian and organized in cooperation with MEP Corina CRETU and GRSPSociety, was a one day conference organized on the 18th of February in Brussels. The conference brought together Romanian policy-makers, scholars and activists in order to discuss Romania’s approach towards development cooperation and Romania’s relations with Africa.