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IOAN Radu and ?ENDROIU Cleopatra
FAMP
STRESS MANAGEMENT AND CONTRADICTIONS IN ROMANIA ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING
SOCIAL SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLY PEOPLE CCASP

are obstacles. There are obstacles to social contracting at the local government level in Romania. These
were identified in the research conducted by the Foundation for Civil Society Development were grouped
in three levels - legal obstacles, administrative and cultural.
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Legal barriers noted are: duplication of legislation, Law 350/2005 applying locally, lack of legislative
coherence, lack of consistency between the concepts of contracting, financing, public-private partnership
(Romanian Parliament, 2005).

Concerning of administrative obstacles we can mention: bureaucracy, lack of objective assessment,
underdevelopment social services market, the lack of impact assessment, lack of databases with
beneficiaries and providers, lack of transparency in local government.

Cultural obstacles relate to: the tendency of self-preservation of local government and NGOs fear
competition, weak involvement of NGOs in policy formulation in the area, the lack of dialogue between
government and NGOs.

30 th – 31 st October 2015 ”Strategic Management for Local Communities” Bucharest care services, which will in the future lead to a decrease in the amounts awarded NGO even if their
A major problem identified by non-governmental organizations is the tendency to develop their own social

services are of better quality.

In this way it appears unfair competition or did you correctly said a pseudo-competition as long as funds
are granted by local government for their services. Funds for NGOs will be granted only in areas not
covered by public institutions.

? INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT (Strengths, Weaknesses)

? EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT (Opportunities, Threats)

STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
- Insufficient
-existence In society -
of these social units resources on the Development of social - Economic
Instability
allocation of social
for elderly service provision.
services.
A strategy for
assistance on
information, solving, - Migration of labor - The allocation of EU - Decreased
income
policy abroad. funds.
implementation population.
assistance

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