Table of Contents CHAPTER I –DIAGNOSTIC ANALISYS .................................................................................................................... 5 1.1. CONTEXT ....................................................................................................................................................... 6 1.2. CURRENT SITUATION ANALISYS .................................................................................................................... 7 1.2.1. General Outline ........................................................................................................................................ 7 1.2.2. Demography ............................................................................................................................................ 9 1.2.3. Land and housing ................................................................................................................................... 13 1.2.4. Infrastructure ......................................................................................................................................... 15 1.2.5. Public services ........................................................................................................................................ 17 1.2.6. Economic development .......................................................................................................................... 22 1.2.7. Quality of environmental factors and pollution sources ........................................................................ 31 1.3. PEST ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................................................ 34 CHAPTER II – DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY ....................................................................................................... 39 2.1.1. Vision. Mission. Objectives. ........................................................................................................................ 40 2.1.2. Sectoral policies and Programmes ............................................................................................................. 42 2.1.3. Project portfolio ......................................................................................................................................... 52 2.1.4. Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism for the Implementation of the Development Strategy ............... 60 CHAPTER I CHAPTER I –Diagnostic Analisys 1.1. CONTEXT core priorities for the local authorities, to which a number of consideration can be added, that refer to Oradea Metropolitan Area was founded by the the viability of a major polycentric cross-border association of the Oradea municipality with the position. administrative territorial units surrounding it, namely the local authorities of Biharia, Borş, Cetariu, Nojorid, The local developments strategy of Toboliu is done Oşorhei, Paleu, Sînmartin, Sîntandrei. Therefore the 9 within the project “Local development strategies in founding members, located on the western border of Oradea Metropolitan Area” implemented by the Romania set, through the general’s assembly decision, association co-financed by the European Social Fund on the 9th of May 2005 the first intercommunity through the Regional Operational Programme for development Association legally established, in a form Developing the Administrative Capacity, SMIS code of Metropolitan Area was set in Romania. 13072. The general objective of the project is to overall improve the capacity of the local On the 31st of July 2007, Girişu de Criş local authority administrations within Oradea Metropolitan Area. adhered to the association thus increasing the number Throughout the implementation process of the project of members to 10 administrative units. Girișu de Criș the persuaded goal is to improve the capacity of local local authority divided thus creating Toboliu local authorities to formulate and create public policies and authority increasing by one the number of members of to update their own local developments strategies. the association. The project budget is of 653.100 lei, with an As of the 2 of June 2010, Oradea Metropolitan Area implementing period of 18 months. The target group of (OMA) has a number of 12 members, the general the project is formed by the employees of each local assembly adopting unanimously the membership of Ineu administration forming the Oradea Metropolitan Area. giving it full rights amongst the other associates. The results of the project focus on (1) training a number of 40 public clerks from each member of OMA The common goal of the associates, according to the and (2) the creation of 11 updated local development constitutive documents, is to stimulate and support the strategies and one document that combines all of them growth and prosperity of the area, improvement in life (the strategy of the Oradea Metropolitan Area), standards amongst the inhabitants having as guide the creating and including a Good Governance Charta in goal to continually improve the overall quality of life. these strategic documents, translating them into The overall objective underlines the durable English and printing all the strategic documents. development of the metropolitan territory, envisioning the creation of a common urban space of the 9 The general objective of the durable development founding members, following all the necessary strategies is to improve life standards by exploiting the principles for insuring a coagulated territorial cohesion. existing resources and promoting the potential of the The set specific objectives are related to aligning subjected administrative territorial unit. In order to Oradea Metropolitan Area to the Euro-Atlantic reach this objective, a through and realistic analysis of economic and social standards, according to the the current situation must be made within the local national ones by the alignment of the metropolitan administrative territorial units, the Metropolitan Area market climate to the international competition as a whole, in correlation to the situations of the Bihor procedures, and last but not least to insure the socio- county and the North-West Developments Region, thus economic growth of the area. Amongst the main identifying the existing problems, measures needed to activity direction of the association, key elements such be adopted and outlining the strategic profile. as, promoting a coherent durable development strategy, promotion of public policies that support the continuous growth of added value, attracting, facilitating and supporting direct investments that have a major impact on the sustainability of the area, are 6 CHAPTER I –Diagnostic Analisys 1.2. CURRENT SITUATION ANALISYS meteorological stations: Săcueni, Oradea, Salonta Chişineu Cris). Average annual rainfall varies between 500-600 mm and annual average wind speeds are 1.2.1. General Outline between 1-3 m / s Accessibility Road connection is insured by the History. Being composed by two villages - Toboliu county road DJ 797 Oradea - Cheresig – Inand, being (administrative seat) and Cheresig – the local authority located at a distance of 20 km from Oradea. was established by Law no. 375 of 28 December 2007, that referred to the re-organization of Girişu de Criș, The settlement is crossed by one line belonging to CFR, following a referendum held there in the November 20, linking Oradea to Cheresig village. In the community 2005, that expressed local option that Toboliu should there are two railway stations: Toboliul and Cheresig. be separated and reorganized in a new local authority. Currently, the railway route Oradea - Cheresig is under conservation. The composing villages date from 1213 (Toboliu), and 1289 (Cheresig). Administrative organization. Toboliu is made up by Geographical positioning Toboliu is located in the Toboliu and Cheresig villages. On January 10, 2008, the village of Toboliu became the residence of Toboliu south west of Bihor county, 20 km from Oradea. To the local authority, created by the reorganization of Girişu- north it neighbors Girişu de Criş (Girişu de Criş and Criș village, under Law 375/2007. Tărian), to the east Nojorid (Livada village), to the south Sânicolau Român, and to the west is on the border with Hungary. Natural resources. Newly established local authority has 3442 hectares of arable land, 531 hectares of Surface and landscape. Toboliu covers an area of pasture and 20 ha of orchards. Soil quality contributes to the well-known agricultural products (Toboliu 4.233 ha of which 3.993 ha is agricultural land and 240 sprouts), combined with available water resources ha of non-agricultural land. Population density in both (Crișul Repede River). In Toboliu there untapped villages is 53.9 inhabitants per km2. geothermal waters, which are listed among potential resource of the Bihor county. Landscape Toboliu lies at the contact point of Crişurilor Plain with Miersig Plain, on the Crişul Repede Anthropic resources. Toboliu has facilities for the River and the Crişurilor Chanal. police station, local medical centers, pharmacies and two cultural community centers, two primary schools Hydrology. The community is crossed by Crişul and secondary schools that include kindergarten. In Repede River. The path of the river crosses a section of terms of tourist attraction the Maimed Tower (Donjon Pădurea Craiului Mountains, and reaches its peak in fortress), dating from the thirteenth and fourteenth Oradea. Annual average river flow of Crişul