Children First Better Public Spending for Better Outcomes for Children & Families
Children First Better Public Spending for Better Outcomes for Children & Families Eurochild 11th Annual Conference co-hosted by Hope and Homes for Children Romania Bucharest, 26-28 November 2014 CONFERENCE REPORT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Eurochild would like to thank the hosts of the conference, Hope and Homes for Children Romania and in particular Otto Sestak, Reka Fil- ip and Stefan Darabus for support on content, logistics and gener- ally for being excellent colleagues to work with. Thanks also to the staff of the host organisation and Eurochild who helped make the event a success. There are many other people and organisations that contributed to this event. In particular we would like to thank: • Our programme advisory group, in particular: Delia Pop, Director of Programmes at Hope and Homes for Children UK; Mirela Oprea Secretary General of ChildPact; Roxana Ogrendil, Executive Direc- tor of FONPC (Romanian Federation of Child Rights NGOs); Luis Pinto responsible for organisation development at Universal Ed- ucation Foundation; and Professor Pat Dolan, UNESCO Chair and Director, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, Ireland; and Voica Pop and Eduard Petrescu at UNICEF Romania. • Those people consulted in preparation of the three cross-cutting themes, in particular our ‘resource people’: John Canavan, Asso- ciate Director, UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, NUI Galway, Ireland; Nicholas Rees, Policy Analysis Specialist, Division of Policy and Strategy, UNICEF New York and his colleague Jing Qing Chai; and Valentina Caimi, Policy and Advocacy Adviser, So- cial Platform. For the session on public-private partnership we sought advice from several people – thanks particularly to Ariane Rodert, Gordon Hahn, Luigi Martignetti and Luk Zelderloo.
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