Romania
Romania Grows with You
- Lead partner
- Step by Step Centre for Education and Professional Development
- Years
- 2018–2022
- Municipalities
- 22 entered, 21 completed
Strategies, funding and new services across the board; 18 PrimoHubs
Where we’ve worked
Primokiz has been used in city districts of over a hundred thousand people and in villages of under seven hundred. In municipalities with well-resourced services and in municipalities where the nearest paediatrician is nine kilometres away. In communities where half the population lives in a marginalised settlement and in communities where the biggest problem is that nobody knows what’s on offer.

The method is the same everywhere. What each community does with it is entirely its own.
Each country tab below sets out the same five things: the context, what the situation analyses found, what municipalities chose to prioritise, what changed, and what the people involved said about it.
Romania Grows with You
Strategies, funding and new services across the board; 18 PrimoHubs
Slovenia Grows with You
8 analyses, 7 strategies, coordination bodies in all 8
Children First
8 analyses, 8 strategies drafted, 3 fully adopted; new services in every municipality
Two small municipalities, two firsts
First-ever municipal early childhood strategies in both
No country matches these filters.
| Measure | Romania | Slovenia | Hungary | Slovakia |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Years | 2018–2022 | 2019–2023 | 2023–2024 | 2023–2024 |
| Duration | 4 years | 43 months | ~1 year | ~1 year |
| Municipalities entered | 22 | 8 | 9 | 2 |
| Completed | 21 | 8 | 8 | 2 |
| Situation analyses | 21 | 8 | 8 | 2 |
| Analyses adopted by council | 20 | 8 completed, 6 confirmed approved | 8 | Confirmed by mayoral mandate |
| Strategies developed | 16 | 7 | 3 completed | 2 |
| Strategies adopted by council | 16 | 7 | 3 | pending |
| Coordination body established | 21 Local Action Teams (LAT) | 8 LATs | 8 LATs | 2 LATs |
| New non-formal services | 18 PrimoHubs | Multiple | Every municipality | pending |
| External evaluation | Baseline + endline | Baseline + endline | Internal evaluation | Baseline only |