ExpertForum Romania

Expert Forum (EFOR) is a new think tank, set up in June 2011 by four well-known experts in public policy and public governance reform.  The main sectors covered by the organization are: administration reform and public sector integrity; decentralization, regional development, public finance; justice and anticorruption reform; social policy and pensions; energy and transport; healthcare.  Expert Forum members have been involved in the most important evaluations of institutional reforms in the public administration and have analyzed the policy process in recent years in Romania and neighboring countries (particularly in the Western Balkans and Moldova), in collaboration with the European Commission, Council of Europe, World Bank and United Nations Development Programme.

Since its beginnings EFOR has set as an important goal for itself to forge partnerships with the business community in order to fight together for a cleaner and more responsible government, transparency in public budgets and a more open and predictable policy process. We do this by monitoring various public sectors and organizing public debates together with various business associations. The organization works with private businesses or business associations for policy analysis in taxation and public budgets, public healthcare, pensions, energy policy and taxation etc.

The think tank has obtained support from international donors as a project leader to promote transparency and good governance in Romania and the region (Croatia, Serbia, Moldova, and from 2013 also Bulgaria) to monitor the proper, transparent use of public budgets. The organization has also obtained US Embassy support for justice reform in Romania and UK Embassy support for energy sector reform.  The UK embassy in Zagreb has contracted EFOR for a technical assistance to implement anti-corruption policy in Croatia based on lessons learned in Romania and Bulgaria and EC monitoring practices.