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Overview

Last update: 22 March 2024

Youth Policy in Romania

In Romania, the responsibility for youth policy is divided between the central level authorities and the local authorities. Within the limits of the Youth Law (Legea Tinerilor, Law no. 350/2006), the local authorities are free to develop initiatives, and there is seldom coordination at national level. One of the most important instruments used by the Ministry of Youth and Sports (until 2021), the Ministry of Family, Youth and Equal Opportunities (since January 2022), but also by the Ministry of Culture, for the implementation of the youth policy, is the allocation of grants for small projects of youth NGOs. The County Offices for Family and Youth, the Cultural Student Centres, as well as the County Offices for Culture, the Universities and schools have a large degree of autonomy in establishing their activities and calendars for working with young people. The decentralisation of activities ensures the accessibility of youth activities and youth work for a large number of young people from many regions, cities, towns and villages. However, the whole national territory is not covered in the same manner and the level of accessibility to youth activities and youth work varies largely across the country (young people in some cities benefit from a larger number of activities and services compared to other young people). The national coordination is challenging in the absence of strong monitoring and evaluation mechanisms in the field of youth activities and youth work.

The dedicated institution for youth policy was until December 2021 the Ministry of Youth and Sports, established in 1990. In January 2022 the Ministry of Family, Youth and Equal Opportunities was funded. Some youth policy measures are also under the responsibility of other Ministries, such as the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity or the Ministry of Culture. Since 2001, strategic documents in the field of youth, including the National Strategy in Field of Youth Policy 2015-2020 have been reuniting youth policy general and operational objectives. However, the National Strategy in Field of Youth Policy 2015-2020 was not supported by an action plan, clear budget allocations and a monitoring plan. After 2020, a new Youth Strategy was not adopted by the Romanian Government. A new strategy was planned and presented in public consultations between 2021 and 2024, but not adopted until March 2024. Therefore, coordination between top-level authorities responsible for youth policy is not systematic, and the responsible central authorities in the field of youth lack control over the timely and full implementation of actions to meet the youth policy objectives

Ratio of young people in the total population on 1st January

Ratio of men and women in the youth population

Statistic references

References:

Ratio (%) of young people in the total population (2017): Eurostat, yth_demo_020 [data extracted on 4/09/2018].

Absolute number of young people on 1 January for the age group 15-29 (2017): Eurostat, yth_demo_010 [data extracted on 4/09/2018].

Ratio (%) of men and women in the youth population (2017): Eurostat, yth_demo_020 [data extracted on 4/09/2018].

Young immigrants from non-EU countries (2016): Eurostat, yth_demo_070 [data extracted on 4/09/2018].