Annexes to COM(2019)406 - Report on the implementation of national Roma integration strategies - 2019 - Main contents
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| dossier | COM(2019)406 - Report on the implementation of national Roma integration strategies - 2019. |
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| document | COM(2019)406  |
| date | September 5, 2019 |
IV. Conclusions
The review of Roma inclusion measures underline the need to identify and develop with active Roma involvement interventions that: respond to and are proportionate with the scale of the challenges; promise measurable results; and include realistic options to generate acceptance by society at large. Success factors for planning, implementation and monitoring Roma inclusion interventions are identified as follows:
٠Sufficient time not only for implementation, but for planning, consultation, engaging stakeholders, building trust with communities, monitoring, evaluation and policy review
٠Systematic collection of robust data disaggregated by gender and age to inform needs and context analysis; build a baseline; set targets; and populate outcome and impact indicators
٠Embedding targeted interventions in mainstream policy and legal frameworks to ensure that they remain temporary and promote effective equal access of Roma to mainstream services, instead of creating permanent parallel structures
٠Strong multi-stakeholder partnership – to ensure ownership, shared responsibility and sustainability 56
٠Active participation of Roma and all stakeholders in all stages (planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and policy review)
٠Intersectional, cross-sectoral, integrated approaches to tackle multiple discrimination and multi-dimensional exclusion
٠Gender and child sensitive approach: planning, based on the analysis of the needs of Roma women and children; comprehensive approach; and continuous support especially in critical transitions
٠Accounting for the diversity among Roma: reflect on the real needs; ensure sensitivity to local contexts; and address the exclusion and discrimination patterns faced by specific Roma communities
٠Tackling extreme poverty with a combination of territorial and group targeting in comprehensive interventions to promote long-term change
٠Explicit but not exclusive targeting to ensure consideration of the wider context and prevent resentment from other disadvantaged groups
٠Prioritisation of prevention and early intervention to ensure cost efficiency and generate long-term, sustainable change
٠Desegregation (in education and housing) as a long-term priority instead of improving quality in segregated settings
٠Recognition of antigypsyism to promote a strong non-discrimination approach in Roma inclusion interventions in all areas 57
٠Expertise to ensure quality, non-discriminatory services
٠Building the capacity of civil society, public administration and Roma
٠Visible, long-term political and sufficient financial support (including allocation from the national budget) to ensure institutionalisation of promising practices and sustainability
٠Flexibility to ensure success by allowing for policy learning and adjustment
٠Independent quantitative and qualitative monitoring and evaluation to measure progress, and ensure policy review
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COM (2011) 173. In line with the Council conclusions (EPSCO 106665/11) endorsing the framework, Member States were to develop “national Roma inclusion strategies, or integrated sets of policy measures within their broader social inclusion policies”. The terms ‘NRIS’ and ‘strategy’ also cover integrated sets of policy measures.
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COM (2018) 785. The term ‘Roma’ is used to refer to a number of different groups (e.g. Roma, Sinti, Kale, Gypsies, Romanichels, Boyash, Ashkali, Egyptians, Yenish, Dom, Lom, Rom, Abdal) and includes Travellers, without denying the specificities of these groups.
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For country abbreviations see www.ec.europa.eu/eurostat . All Member States (MS) with the exception of DK, FI and IE (and MT that has no Roma community) reported in 2018. Given late submission of the DE report, it could only be included in Annex 1 (country summaries), but not in the thematic analysis reflected in the Communication and the Staff Working Document (SWD).
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Annex 1
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SWD
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Meta-evaluation of Roma inclusion interventions, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, forthcoming 2019
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Ibid
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2013/C 378/01
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AT, FR, EL, ES, IT, LV, RO
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e.g. CZ, SK
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e.g. HU, ES, LV
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e.g. AT, ES, IT, PT
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AT, CY, EE, EL, ES, FR, HR, LT, NL
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EL, ES, HR, RO
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EL, LV, SE, SK
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ES, LT, LV, PL
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BG, EL, ES
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AT, BG, EL
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HR, IT, PT
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http://www.romaeducationfund.org/sites/default/files/publications/desegregation_toolkit__2015_web.pdf
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BG, ES, HR
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AT, BG, CZ, ES, FR, HR, HU, LV, NL, SK
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AT, EL, PL, PT, SK
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EE, ES, LT, LV, NL, PT, RO
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BG, EE, FR, NL, PT
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EL, FR, HU, HR
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HU, PL, SI
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AT, HU, RO
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CZ, HU, LT, SI
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FR, RO, SE, SK
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BG, RO
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EL, HU, LT, SE, RO
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BG, CZ, EL, HR
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BG, ES, HR, RO
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AT, CZ,
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ES, EL
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BG, PL, SK,
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AT, CZ, EL, HU, LV, LT, PT, RO
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ES, FR, HU, IT, LT
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FR, NL
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SI
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HR
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BG
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BG, CY, ES, SK
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ES, LT, LV, NL
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CZ, BG
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BG, EE, ES, HU, HR, PT, SK
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ES, FR, HU, LV
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IT, ES, SI
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AT, CZ, LT, PT
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EE, ES, HR, LV
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BG, ES, SK
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CY, FR, EL, PL, RO
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Point 6: “Promoting Roma Integration Beyond the EU: the particular situation of enlargement countries”. Three objectives were set for the enlargement countries: improved used of IPA funds; enhanced monitoring; closer cooperation with civil society.
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Report annually on implementation; appointed National Roma Contact Points; held Annual National Platforms closely involving civil society organisations; held Roma Seminars; report on fulfilment of their commitments in the Enlargement Package and the Stabilization and Association Agreement Subcommittees.
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This also implies close cooperation between stakeholders working with Roma and those developing and implementing mainstream public policies, as well as cooperation between local public and private service providers with civil society working closely with Roma communities.
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This should also include the recognition of the specificities of antigypsyism, hate crime and anti-Roma rhetoric, as well as the challenges faced by Roma victims in accessing justice, protection and support (such as underreporting also due to fear of discrimination or reprisal by investigating authorities, risks of re-victimisation, impact of the authorities' own biased attitudes on criminal law responses, etc.).