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Item Deficit sau sfârșit de expertiză în planificarea și evaluarea programelor publice sociale?(INCE, 2023) Arpinte, DanielThe paper is based on the observation of an unequal practice in Romania on how are designed and evaluated the public social programs aiming at supporting social disadvantaged groups, which implies a negative impact on the relevance and the efficiency of these programs. Although the evaluation culture was intensively promoted during Romania pre-accession to the EU, particularly during 2001 – 2006 (Toderaș & Iacob, 2020), the evaluation practice shows a significant decline in the area of public social programs, except those funded by external grants. Whether the ex-ante assessments are still done (although their quality largely vary due to the availability of the funds needed to conduct these evaluations), the ongoing or impact evaluations funded by the public authorities are almost inexistent. Most of the current public social programs (e.g. the supply of monetary benefits based on means-testing, the nutritional programs for schoolchildren, the public social assistance services) have not ever been evaluated or their evaluations were inconsistent or focused only on specific aspects. Two study cases will illustrate this process, respectively the minimum guaranteed income and the nutritional program for schoolchildren, both previously documented. The analysis will identify how the legislative process has impacted the running of these programs, and will look on the available assessments and studies related to these programs in order to identify the patterns of the assessments which feed the major decisions related to the social programs.Item Protecția socială a familiilor vulnerabile în România: adecvare și eficiență(INCE, 2022) Arpinte, DanielRomania has the highest rates of poverty among children and some categories of families (in particular the single-parent families, families with three or more children, Roma families) but it has, at the level of the EU countries, the lowest budget allocations for the social protection of the family and the child. Demographic decline adds to the main long-term risks, with the most recent projections for 2050 being more pessimistic than those made in past decades. The analysis tries to identify to what extent the current family policies can respond to societal challenges regarding family protection, can contribute to increasing the quality of life of families and, implicitly, to reducing demographic decline. The most vulnerable categories of families will also be identified and the types of support available or planned to be implemented will be identified, from the perspective of adequacy to the needs of these families. Both existing programs and those to be implemented in the medium term, especially through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, are considered, from the perspective of their relevance and potential impact. Eurostat and INS data are used, secondary data from previous research projects, but also administrative data from central public institutions that implement programs or projects for families or children. Another component of the analysis concerns the strategies and action plans at the level of ministries and other central structures relevant to the family field, from the perspective of the adequacy of the programs or interventions proposed in relation to the main challenges of family protection.