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Roma Responsive Budgeting Training held in Bosnia and Herzegovina
16 Jun 2022
Today in Bosnia and Herzegovina we rounded a series of training on Roma responsive budgeting throughout the region with a joint conclusion: changes and better budget planning on a local level are needed to promote inclusion, participation and equality of Roma.
Roma Responsive Budgeting at the local level discussed in Podgorica
13 Jun 2022
A meeting on improving budgeting for Roma and the Egyptians at the local level was held on 13 June in Podgorica. The event was organised by the Council of Europe Programme Office – through the joint EU-CoE ROMACTED Phase II Programme, the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights, and the ...
Roma Responsive Budgeting – Training for Local Representatives in Serbia
08 Jun 2022
A training for local representatives from Serbia on the topic of Roma Responsive Budgeting has been held today in Belgrade. Namely, after the Regional Cooperation Council Roma Integration Action Team developed and introduced Roma Responsive Budgeting guidelines and organised trainings at the ...
Joint Event of the Regional Cooperation Council Roma Integration And Council of Europe Romacted Projects on Roma Responsive Budgeting
24 May 2022
Roma integration is a complex process that requires the concerted effort of all stakeholders. A key component of successful Roma integration is ensuring that adequate resources are allocated to meet the needs of Roma communities. This requires effective and responsive budgeting practices. Therefore, ...
Roma Responsive Budgeting – Training for Local Representatives in North Macedonia
12 May 2022
After the Regional Cooperation Council’s Roma Integration Action Team provided the training on Roma Responsive Budgeting to the central authorities, and supported the Governments in the region to apply the principles of Roma Responsive Budgeting in their budgeting processes, similar training ...
Policy Dialogue Seminar on Inclusion of Roma and Egyptian Communities in Albania
20 Apr 2022
Policy Dialogue Seminar on Inclusion of Roma and Egyptian Communities in Albania took place in Tirana, with education, antigypsyism, employment, health, social care, housing and civil registration in focus.
Meeting of the Expert Group in Serbia – Action Plan and Roma Responsive Budgeting in focus
18 Apr 2022
After the Republic of Serbia adopted a revised Strategy for Social Inclusion of Roma Men and Women for the period from 2022 – 2030, the Expert Group of the Coordination Body for Roma Policies of the Government of the Republic of Serbia met in Zlatibor to discuss the Action Plan detailing ...
Sixth Task Force Meeting of the Roma Integration project
14 Dec 2021
The RCC’s Roma Integration Action Team held its sixth Task Force meeting, this year in a hybrid mode, with around 15 participants present live in Belgrade, while other invitees joined online.
Two Workshops Held: Drafting the New Roma Strategic Frameworks
11 Oct 2021
In the previous period, Roma Integration Action Team facilitated two workshops, which were held with the aim to draft the new Roma Strategic Frameworks in accordance with the goals and objectives of the document presented by the European Commission in October 2020. The new document, EU Roma ...
Donors Conference on Roma Inclusion in Montenegro held in Podgorica
07 Oct 2021
Roma Integration Action team supported organisation of the Donors Conference on Roma Inclusion in Montenegro, hosted by the Ministry of Justice, Human and Minority Rights - Division for Roma and Egyptian Inclusion.
Conclusions of the Second Ministerial Meeting on Roma Integration
30 Jun 2021
Following the endorsement of the Declaration of Western Balkans Partners on Roma Integration within the EU Enlargement Process (Poznan Declaration) at the Western Balkans Leaders’ Summit in Poznan, Poland on 05 July 2019, the Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina ...
Second Ministerial Meeting on Roma Integration held in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
28 Jun 2021
The Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina in cooperation with the Regional Cooperation Council Roma Integration project hosted the second Ministerial meeting on Roma integration on 28 June 2021, in Sarajevo.
Bregu: Discrimination against Roma remains very high
28 Jun 2021
Sarajevo hosts Second Ministerial Meeting on Roma Integration: Roma should be included in the Green and Digital Agendas
Fifth National Platform on Roma Integration in Albania
11 May 2021
The fifth National Platform on Roma Integration in Albania took place in the beautiful surrounding of Sculpture Reja - the Cloud, by Japanese architect and artist Sou Fujimoto.
Fifth Task Force Meeting Held Online
15 Dec 2020
Fifth Task Force Meeting Held Online - Mapping of informal settlements, ending statelessness, data collection, and Roma responsive budgeting in focus In the course of COVID-19 pandemic, RCC’s Roma Integration held its fifth Task Force meeting on 15 December 2020 online, striving to ...
Tirana Hosted Ministerial Meeting on Roma Integration
27 Oct 2020
Tirana – “Roma integration should not be a matter of empathy for a vulnerable group, but it’s a matter of principle of treating equally all the citizens in the Western Balkans. We are glad that our initiative to boost human capital development within Connectivity Agenda of ...
Policy Briefs on Roma Responsive Budgeting
14 Jan 2020
The Western Balkans’ six economies, participating in the Roma Responsive Budgeting Initiative led by the Roma Integration project, have been working progressively on piloting the Guidelines for Roma Responsive Budgeting developed in 2018 within the inter-governmental working group ...
Fourth Task Force Meeting: Housing is essential to one's sense of dignity, safety, and inclusion
13 Dec 2019
The RCC’s Roma Integration 2020 project held its fourth Task Force meeting in Belgrade on 12 and 13 December 2019. The key stakeholders of the project reviewed the status of activities in the seven participating economies, discussed the status of implementation of the Declaration of the ...
Roma Declaration – A new Energy for Regional Cooperation
03 Jul 2019
The Ministers of economy, interior and foreign affairs of the economies participating in the Berlin Process will meet in Poznan on 4 and 5 July 2019. The Summit will also be attended by representatives of the European Commission (EC), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation ...
Second Steering Committee of ROMACTED Programme held in Skopje
18 Jun 2019
The second Steering Committee of the Joint European Union and Council of Europe ROMACTED Programme was held in Skopje on 18 June 2019. The representatives from the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations (DG NEAR), the Council of Europe, representatives ...
Funds should be invested where they are most needed
05 Jun 2019
Roma Integration Project works with the region on ensuring Roma responsive budgeting The way regional budget programs are designed in their current financial systems, seem to be rigid and lack flexibility of intervention either to introduce a new product related directly ...
Third meeting of the Working Group for Developing Regional Standards for Roma Responsible Budgeting
08 Nov 2018
Rome – The Working Group for Developing Regional Standards for Roma Responsible Budgeting, comprising of the National Roma Contacts Points (NRCP) representatives of Ministries of Finances from the economies in the enlargement region, Regional Cooperation Council (RCC)’s Roma Integration ...
Second National Platform on Roma Integration in The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Skopje, 2018)
03 Oct 2018
Skopje – The second national platform on Roma Integration, gathering representatives of the government, civil society organizations, the Delegation of the European Union and relevant international organisations, to assess the Roma integration policy achievements made in 2017 and agree ...
Third National Platform on Roma Integration in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo, 2018)
28 Sep 2018
Sarajevo – The third National Platform on Roma Integration in Bosnia and Herzegovina, organized by the Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Roma Integration 2020 in cooperation with the Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was held in Sarajevo today. ...
Third National Platform on Roma Integration in Kosovo* (Pristina, 2018)
21 Sep 2018
Pristina - Under the framework of the Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Roma Integration 2020 (RI2020), the third National Platform on Roma Integration in Kosovo*, jointly organized by the RI2020 Action Team and the Office of the Prime Minister was held in Pristina today. The meeting ...
Progress Reports on the Integration of Roma for 2017 submitted by the RI2020 Participating Governments
10 Sep 2018
The Governments participating in the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC)'s Roma Integration 2020 (RI2020) submitted annual reports on the implementation of their national strategies and action plans on Roma integration for 2017, according to the regionally adopted standards for monitoring ...
Second Meeting of the Working Group for Developing Regional Standards for Roma Responsible Budgeting
03 Jul 2018
Bucharest – The second meeting of the Working Group for Developing Regional Standards for Roma Responsible Budgeting, organized by the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC)’s Roma Integration 2020 (RI2020), took place in Bucharest today.
Thrid National Platform on Roma Integration in Serbia (Belgrade, 2018)
26 Jun 2018
Belgrade – National Platform on Roma integration in Serbia, providing wide public dialogue with the relevant institutions and civil society and others concerned with the issue of Roma integration, at the same time ensuring transparency of the Roma related policy, participation in decision ...
Third National Platform meeting on Roma Integration in Montenegro (Podgorica, 2018)
30 May 2018
Podgorica – The third National Platform meeting on Roma Integration in Montenegro for 2018, organized by the Regional Cooperation Council(RCC)’s Roma Integration 2020 (RI2020) Action Team in close cooperation with the Ministry of Human and Minority Rights of Montenegro, took place ...
First meeting of the Working Group for Developing Regional Standards for Roma Responsible Budgeting
26 Apr 2018
Vienna – The RCC’s Roma Integration 2020 (RI2020) Working Group for Developing Regional Standards for Roma Responsible Budgeting, consisting of the RI2020 Action Team, independent budget experts, National Roma Contacts Points (NRCP) and representatives of Ministries of Finances ...
Regional Conference: Filling in the Budget Gaps in Roma Integration Policies (Tirana, 2017)
10 Nov 2017
The Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Roma Integration 2020 (RI2020) Action Team organized a regional conference on 10 November in Tirana to address the needs and priorities in the Western Balkans and Turkey concerning filling in the budget gaps in Roma Integration Policies, with a ...
Second National Plaform on Roma Integration in Kosovo* (Prishtina, 2017)
17 Oct 2017
The Second National Plaform meeting was held in Pristina on 17 October 2017. It was jointly organized by the Regional Cooperation Council Roma Integration 2020 (RI2020) Project and the Office for Good Governance (OGG) of the Office of the Prime Minister.
Second Task Force meeting: Budgeting in the region to be improved to reflect measures for integration of Roma
21 Sep 2017
Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Roma Integration 2020 Action Team (RI2020) is given the mandate to work with the governments on developing regional standards for budgeting Roma Integration policies and mainstream budgeting responsible to Roma integration, at the RI2020 Task Force ...
First National Platform on Roma Integration in Turkey (Ankara, 2017)
13 Sep 2017
The first national platform meeting in Turkey was held on 13 September 2017 in Ankara, organized by the Regional Cooperation Council Roma Integration 2020 Action Team in close cooperation with the National Roma Contact Point of Turkey, Mr Emre Ertekin, Social Policy Expert at the Family and ...
Second National Platform on Roma Integration in Montenegro (Podgorica, 2017)
05 Jul 2017
The second National Platform on Roma Integration for 2017 in Montenegro was held on 05 July 2017 in Podgorica, Montenegro by the Regional Cooperation Council’s Roma Integration 2020 Action Team in close cooperation with the National Roma Contact Point of Montenegro, Mr Leon Gjokaj, General ...
National Workshop: Public Budgeting for Roma Integration in Montenegro
04 Jul 2017
The replication of the RCC’s Roma Integration 2020 regional workshop on budgeting public funds for the integration of Roma in the Montenegro was held in Sutomore on 03-04 July 2017. Public servants from relevant ministries implementing the Roma integration Strategy of Montenegro ...
Second National Platform on Roma Integration in Serbia (Belgrade, 2017)
13 Jun 2017
The second National Platform on Roma Integration was held in Serbia today, 13 June 2017, in the main Government building. The representatives of the institutions presented the 2016 annual report on the implementation of the Roma integration policy in Serbia, followed by the civil society view ...
National Workshop: Public Budgeting for Roma Integration in Serbia
06 Jun 2017
The replication of the RCC’s Roma Integration 2020 regional workshop on budgeting public funds for the integration of Roma in the Republic of Serbia started today in Arangelovac. Public servants from relevant ministries implementing the Roma Integration Strategy of Serbia participated ...
National Workshop: Public Budgeting for Roma Integration in Albania
24 May 2017
This workshop is a replication of RCCs Roma Integration 2020 regional workshop on budgeting public funds for the integration of Roma. Public servants from relevant ministries implementing the Roma Integration Strategy of Albania participated in the one day workshop on budgeting activities that ...
First National Platform on Roma Integration in Albania (Tirana, 2017)
23 May 2017
Tirana – A two-day National Platform on Roma Integration, discussing the implementation of the National Action Plan for Integration of Roma and Egyptians 2016-2020, opened in Tirana, Albania today. The Platform, focusing on the five main priorities - education, employment, social protection, ...
Regional Workshop: Public Budgeting for Roma Integration Policies (Skopje, 2017)
20 Mar 2017
A two-day regional workshop on budgeting for Roma integration policies, organized by the Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Roma Integration 2020 project (RI2020), took place in Skopje on 20-21 March 2017. The Workshop participants discussed public financing and budgeting allocations ...
First National Platform on Roma Integration in Montenegro (Podgorica, 2016)
01 Dec 2016
Podgorica – The 2016 cycle of the Public Dialogue Forums on implementation and priority measures on Roma issues, that took place throughout the region in the past few months, concluded with the Forum in Podgorica today. The events have been organised by the Regional Cooperation Council’s ...
First National Platform on Roma Integration in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Skopje, 2016)
24 Nov 2016
Skopje - Public Dialogue Forum on Roma Integration titled “Rules of Procedure of The National Coordination Body, The Roma Information Centres, and The Roma Health Mediators” began in Skopje. The two-day event is organised by the Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Roma Integration ...
First National Platform on Roma Integration in Kosovo* (Prishtina, 2016)
21 Nov 2016
Pristina - Under the framework of the Regional Cooperation Council’s (RCC) Project Roma Integration 2020, the first Policy Dialogue Forum, jointly organized with the Office for Good Governance of the Office of the Prime Minister, was held in Pristina today.
First Task Force meeting: Regional standards for reporting on progress, outcomes and budget for Roma integration
09 Nov 2016
The Roma Integration 2020 Action Team organized the first Task Force meeting of the Roma Integration 2020 project. The Task Force, which is composed of the National Roma Contact Points from the participating economies, two civil society representatives, the European Commission DG NEAR, Open ...
First National Platform on Roma Integration in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo, 2016)
07 Nov 2016
Sarajevo, 7 November 2016 – Bosnia and Herzegovina works on finalisation of the Action Plan on Roma for 2017-2020 at the public dialogue forum organised by the Roma Integration 2020 project of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) in cooperation with the Ministry of Human Rights and ...
First National Platform on Roma Integration in Serbia (Belgrade, 2016)
13 Oct 2016
Sarajevo/Belgrade - The Roma Integration 2020 project of the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) presented its activities assisting the Government in the implementation of the Strategy for Social Inclusion of Roma 2016-2025 at the public hearing organised in cooperation with the Committee for ...
High Level Launch Event: Before accession, countries will need to prove tangible progress on Roma inclusion
09 Jun 2016
Brussels - The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC), the Open Society Foundations (OSF) and the European Commission (EC) jointly launched the “Roma Integration 2020” initiative today in Brussels. The event brought together Roma integration policy leaders from the Western Balkans and ...