Scope:
Priorities and activities to be co-financed
1. Priorities
National Roma platforms are expected to encourage and facilitate dialogue, mutual learning, cooperation, and policy reviews between all national stakeholders. Inclusion of Roma people, particularly women and youth is encouraged. Their aim is to:
- empower National Roma Contact Points in the process of Roma integration;
- improve participation of all relevant stakeholders (i.e. public authorities, Roma and non-Roma communities, non-governmental organisations, entrepreneurs, trade unions, academia, etc.) in decisions that affect Roma, taking into account their roles;
- strengthen multi-stakeholder accountability, commitment to, as well as ownership and transparency of the process of Roma integration;
- boost the commitment to and effective implementation of integration measures at the local level, improving the equal access of Roma to mainstream services and opportunities, strengthening community building between Roma and non-Roma;
- address gaps and challenges in the implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategy specific to the national context, and to report at national and EU level.
2. Description of the activities
The call will fund projects focused on one or more among the following activities:
- actions to set-up and reinforce National Roma Platforms, involving all relevant stakeholders, with a focus on implementing and monitoring of National Roma Integration Strategies;
- meetings, working groups, seminars, events at national, regional or local levels; with topical discussion as education, employment, health, housing, representation, etc.;
- evaluation and review of National Roma Integration Strategies and Roma integration measures, exchange and transfer of practices that proved effective at the local level;
- transnational exchange between different National Roma Platforms to promote policy learning and transfer of good practices.
N.B.: activities supporting political parties, legal actions before national or international courts regardless of their grounds or objectives shall not be funded.
Activities must take place in countries participating to the REC Programme to be eligible for funding.
3. Expected results
- increased number of the National Roma Platforms seen as an integral component of the coordination and monitoring activities of the National Roma Contact Points to foster the process for dialogue, cooperation and coordination of stakeholders;
- increased capacity of national experts and stakeholders to address issues related to Roma integration, including legislative and administrative practices;
- strengthened cooperation and exchange of information between competent national authorities in relation to Roma integration.
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