I AM ROMA
First Project Steering Group Meeting
4-6 April, Bucharest,2011
Dr. Haroon Saad
Director LUDEN(QeC-ERAN)
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The Policy Context
• Ongoing High levels of exclusion faced
by Roma Communities
• Roma decade-2005-2015
• Mid–Term Review shows marginal
impact
• European Parliament Resolution
• Earmarking of ERDF/ESF funds
• Ongoing Discrimination
Project Aims
The overall goal of this proposal is to build up capacity
and know how of local actors engaged in antidiscrimination work relating to Roma generally and
Roma Children in particular, AND support them in
developing local/regional campaigns to challenge
stereo types and highlight good practice through a
transnational exchange program.
The aim is to increase political participation of Roma,
raise awareness of discrimination and racial violence
targeted against Roma, and discrimination of Roma
children in education provision.
Project Objectives-1
Four Key Objectives:
1. Undertake the effective Management and Coordination of the Project
2. Undertake a transnational exchange
programme
3. Undertake Local Actions
4. Establish systems for communication and
ensure wide dissemination
Key Actions-1
Management and Co-ordination of the Project
•
Each Partner to appoint a local co-ordinator
•
Four steering group meetings
•
Telephone conferences
•
Staff declaration forms
•
Timesheets
•
Expenses Claims
•
Pre-financing Claims
Key Actions-2
Undertake a transnational exchange
programme
• Transnational workshop One : This will bring
together the facilitators of the LAG's responsible
for the local capacity building programme. This
will be a "training of the trainers" with inputs from
partners as well as experts from the European
Roma Rights Centre. This workshop will
incorporate the production of materials for the
capacity building workshops and the development
of the online campaign.
Key Actions-2
Undertake a transnational exchange
programme
• Transnational workshop Two: This will bring
together delegates from the the LAG's and
external experts in relation to Roma and
campaigning .This workshop will focus on an
exchange of good practice and development of
local action plans
• Transnational Online events: An online
campaign that will have the following elements:
• Use of Social networking tools such as
facebook, twitter, youtube as campaigning
mediums
• Pod casts
• Creation of an online community of
practice. This will seek to establish a
“critical mass” of supporters who will be
able to sustain the impulse created by the
project
Key Actions-2
Undertake a transnational exchange
programme
Establishment of an Online Dialogues
platform that will provide a virtual space enabling
the participation of LAG members. As well as
providing a link with this cross-section of
participants, the Dialogues platform will also
incorporate a number of key features:
• Profiles of people as well as places within
the partnership
• Establish a data base for all the products
generated by the platform as well as links
to key reports /websites.
• Create a space for discussion forums to
operate
• Create a mechanism to undertake “opinion
polling” and consultation with the platform
participants and thus ensure that final
products and approaches reflect
identified priorities.
Key Actions-3
Undertake Local Actions
• Local action group in each locality (10-12).
This action group will consist of three types of actors:
• those who are well “connected”. These will be
“activists” in the field
• Those who have “knowledge”, who are sources
for data. These will be researchers, policy
makers etc.
• Those who are salespersons- that is people
who have the skills to persuade and spread the
message. These will be people in the media,
artists etc.
Key Actions-3
Undertake Local Actions
•A capacity building workshop that will target key
actors responsible for social inclusion and antidiscrimination policies alongside members of the LAG’s
Key Actions-3
Undertake Local Actions
•A local campaign programme which will have the
following elements:
• Local mapping which will identify the context
and also what is happening on the ground in
order to ensure effective synergies with the
impulse provided.
• A programme of “Dialogues”. These will be café
style events that will bring together targeted
people from Employers, Trade Unions, local
authorities, politicians alongside participants
from the Roma communities .
• Using local media to get the message across to
the general public
Key Actions-4
Establish systems for communication and ensure
wide dissemination
•Establishment of an Online Dialogues platform
that will provide a virtual space enabling the
participation of LAG members. The Dialogues platform
will also incorporate a number of key features:
• Profiles of people as well as places within the
partnership
• Establish a data base for all the products
generated by the platform as well as links to key
reports /websites.
• Create a space for discussion forums to operate
• Create a mechanism to undertake “opinion
polling” and consultation with the platform
participants and thus ensure that final products
and approaches reflect identified priorities.
• Twitter and Facebook groups will be established
with links to the platform
Key Actions-4
Establish systems for communication and ensure
wide dissemination
•A project website will be created which will act a more
"convential dissemination tool
•Linkages with local, regional, National and European
media
•Transnational dissemination workshop
•Telephone conferencing between SGM members
•Online events will be publicised and open to non
partner organisations
Timetable
1 February 2011 - 31 January 2013 (24 Months)
Partners
•Municipality of Sintra
•LUDEN(QeC-ERAN)
•Region of Lazzio
•Municipality of Heraklion
•Evropská rozvojová agentura, s.r.o. (European
development agency)
•The Intercultural Institute of Timisoara (IIT)
•Európska Rómska pracovná agentúra (European
Roma Labour Agency )
•The Roma Center for Social Intervention and Studies
(Romani CRISS)
•City of Dobrich
Budget
Total Budget: €870,430
EU Contribution:€695,425 (79.89%)
Partner Contribution:
Sintra: €23,000
All other partners(except QeC-ERAN):
€21,715
Thank You
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