The PAL-TIN (Participarea TINerilor la Administrarea Locala, translated as Youth Participation in Local Government) Project is a large network of local youth and children’s councils throughout Romania. PAL-TIN (acronym commonly shortened to PALTIN ) was an initiative of the Bucharest-based MASTER Forum Association (started in 1994) to develop local youth councils in Romania along the lines of the youth council charter adopted by the European Union . By 2007 the program included over 90 youth and child councils throughout Romania.
10-574: Following the popular uprising and overthrow of the country's communist dictatorship in 1989, a number of civic organizations were developed that focused on the promotion of democracy and the popular spread and implementation of democratic ideals. A number of these organizations banded together in the creation of an association called MASTER Forum focused on supporting the trends of building a civil society, initiatives of youth and youth associations. The founders consisted of European Union/ Phare for Democracy Program, Solon Foundation from Switzerland, Fund for
20-661: A period of massive economic restructuring and political change. Phare means ' lighthouse ' in French. Until 2000, countries of the Western Balkans ( Albania , North Macedonia , and Bosnia-Herzegovina ) were also beneficiaries of Phare. However, as of 2001, the CARDS programme (Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stability in the Balkans) has provided financial assistance to these countries. Following
30-574: A structure of active participation...". The youth council framework was designed to serve as: The PAL-TIN Project is able to support the individual youth councils through: Phare The Phare programme is one of the three pre-accession instruments financed by the European Union to assist the applicant countries of Central and Eastern Europe in their preparations for joining the European Union. Originally created in 1989 as
40-518: The Poland and Hungary: Assistance for Restructuring their Economies ( PHARE ) programme, Phare expanded from Poland and Hungary to cover ten countries. It assisted eight of the ten 2004 accession member states : the Czech Republic , Estonia , Hungary , Latvia , Lithuania , Poland , Slovakia , and Slovenia , as well as those countries that acceded in 2007 ( Bulgaria and Romania ), in
50-466: The 1993 Copenhagen Council 's invitation to Central and Eastern European countries to apply for membership, PHARE support was reoriented towards this aim, including a marked expansion of support for infrastructure investment. PHARE's total pre-accession focus was put in place in 1997, in response to the Luxembourg Council’s launching of the present enlargement process. Phare funds focus entirely on
60-817: The Development of the Carpathian Euroregion, and the Civil Society Development Foundation. Out of this forum came the PAL-TIN (Youth Participation in Local Government) Project, the primary objective of which is the promotion of youth participation in public decisions about matters that concern them. The initiative is developed along the lines of the EU youth council charter. Resolution 237 from 1992 of
70-738: The Permanent Conference of Local and Regional Authorities in Europe adopted the Charter on the Participation of Young People in Local and Regional Life in which it is affirmed that: "municipalities and other territorial communities will create adequate institutional conditions for the participation of the young people in decision-making and debates on problems of interest to them... will create and support youth councils that function as
80-451: The Phare programme became member states of the European Union, substantial changes were made to the scope of the Phare programme. 2003 was the final programming year for the new member states, but contracting of projects continued until 2005 and payments based on these contracts continued until 2006. In May 2004 the new member states had to take over the full responsibility for the management of
90-457: The country for membership and the implications for staff and financial resources. These orientations were further refined in 1999 with the creation of SAPARD and ISPA , which took over rural and agricultural development (SAPARD) and infrastructural projects in the environmental and transport fields (ISPA) allowing Phare to focus on its key priorities that were not covered by these fields. After all 10 countries which previously were eligible for
100-650: The pre-accession priorities highlighted in the Road Maps and the Accession Partnerships which establish the overall priorities the country must address to prepare for accession and the resources available to help them do so. The National Programme for the Adoption of the Acquis is the candidate country's timetable for preparing its accession. It estimates the timing and cost of the steps needed to prepare
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