local agenda 21 local plan for sustainable development of bistriþa ...

Internal
environment
Positive factors Negative Factors
Strengths
Existence of basic social services for children in
difficulty, elderly persons, homeless persons;
Existence, at county level, of a strategy for child
protection, education and training, sport;
Specialised staff for child protection and
possibilities for professional training;
Collaboration between NGOs and public
institutions;
Organisational structure of trade unions at central
and local level;
Experience and capacity to attract and manage
extra-budgetary funds;
Top technicians acting in the field of performance
sport and mass sport;
Optimal collaboration between County
Department for Sport, the Municipal Sport Club
and County Associations by sporting disciplines;
Initiation of financial support programmes and
their dissemination at national level: “Sportive
scholarship”, “Special allowance for effort”;
Existence, in Bistrita city, of three national centres
for the training of the Olympic teams: weightlifting,
table tennis and gymnastics, to which local
sportsmen also have access;
Existence of a team willing to assert in sport;
Partnership of civil society (Orthodox Church,
local council) for the development of youth civil
society (CETIN);
Development of the Education Plan based on the
County Development Strategy;
Implementation of the county and national
projects focused on school abandonment, drug
consumption, human trafficking;
Efficient implementation of governmental
programmes “Milk and croissant”, “Gymnasiums”,
“Informatics in schools”;
Diversified range of educational alternatives
(informal education step by step, free time,
vocational training etc.);
Existence of the County Centre for Psycho-
Pedagogical Assistance and the Teachers’
House;
Existence of the programmes to rehabilitate and
refurnish the schools;
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MUNICIPALITY
Weaknesses
Insufficiently qualified and motivated staff in the field of
child protection;
Low interest in national adoptions;
Insufficient financial resources to co-finance the
projects and lack of volunteers;
Inefficient collaboration between local institutions and
authorities;
Lack of land, space and equipment for establishing new
centres and specialised services;
Insufficient services for elderly people;
Lack of active social partnership;
Insufficient number of active NGOs;
Inadequate support from local authority in the field of
performance sport;
Low interest of local authorities in providing financial
support for mass sport;
Minimum budgetary support and precarious material
base for the mass-sport;
Inadequate conditions for the practice of practice
(stadiums, leisure spaces, swimming pools, forests,
jogging)
Unqualified staff working in the area of mass sport;
Inefficient information at the level of School
Inspectorate and its subordinated units (inadequate
logistics);
Lack of necessary funds to establish an electronic
network for data transfer;
Inertia in applying educational standards;
School conversion from state institution to community
institution is focused on the school-community-family
relationship;
Low preoccupation of school heads with attracting
funds for schools;
Inertia in implementation of legal provisions regarding
reforming management;
Difficult communication between the city hall and other
community institutions;
Increasing absenteeism and juvenile delinquency;
School abandonment in families in social risk situations;
Lack of urban area for socialising (clubs, outdoor
spaces for meetings);
Low number of children under school age attending an
educational institution;