Proposal for delegations

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We would emphasize that all measures, for
improving the life of roma communities are
consistent with the human rights conventions
Judit Bari gives voice for the Hungarian
delegation- Study tour for roma youths from
Central Eastern Europe 2003. Washington DC, World
Bank Institute - Headquarters
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Basic expectations for 10 years from now

• We expect to have opportunity for gathering
  skills, tools and sources to build stock of
  financial-, informational-, human-, social
  capital of roma society in order to become active
  actor of economy and general society.

Parallel and not instead of these, our
expectations are to have space
to build real political participation with strong
advocacy skills, and powerful civil movement for
continuous development and promoting equal chance
for every individual including minority citizens.
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Proposal for delegations main role NETWORK OF
DELEGATIONS

• Monitoring activities on the implementation of
  country programs related to the education fund
  and decade of inclusion
• Evaluation and analyzing of Country programs
• Providing feedback, forming recommendations for
  improvement
• Doing follow up activities for continuous
  development and refining of the development
  strategies

Operation, PR, media
Transnational groups
Publication of reports, specific papers, etc.
Functions
Monitoring body
Creative meetings
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Steps forward to complete these tasks

1. Establishing of independent monitoring body by
   the delegations
2. Create place and route for monitoring reports by
   writing specific papers in order to provide
   feedback (critics, recommendations) on the
   National Action Plan, which suppose to be a
   basics for development process in following years
3. Publishing yearly, professional reports,
   including lists of recommendations on the
   implementation of Education fund and decade of
   inclusion
4. Give voice for and disseminate the content of
   reports by different activities (on conferences,
   workshops, trough media, etc.)

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Monitoring body

• Independent from any governmental and
  intergovernmental bodies, committees
• Owned, structured, organized, coordinated by Roma
  itself, has legal frame
• Based on country mixed groups, which work in
  yearly rotation system regarding to issues and
  geography
• Financed by non-government independent bodies
  e.g. WB/OSI

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The monitoring reports are

• Yearly published
• Based on society investigation and broad
  consultations with community representatives and
  various experts, civil activist, NGOs, GROs, CBOs
• Analytical, comparative, unified, but give
  space for country face
• Transparent, with clear methodology
• Critical, also constructive, balanced with
  clear recommendations
• Based on concrete criteria's, applys
  qualitative and quantitative indicators, which
  build on the countries program plans, Decade of
  inclusions and Education Funds programs, also
  harmonised with the MDGs

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Recommendations for Education fund and Decade of
inclusion

• In parallel with the desegregation policy
  implementation must have focus on ensuring
  quality of education, lessons, learned trough
  small education programs in order to explore
  innovative elements, must be applied in the
  mainstream education policy.
• The policies regarding to improvement of
  educational and employment situation of roma must
  be developed in mutual consideration of both
  policies, mostly should complete each other.
• The local aspects of implementation policy
  reforms regarding to issues effected roma, must
  relay on Roma representatives as control and
  active contributes to changing situation for
  better one. Promoting horizontal collaboration
  with local authorities in order to improve and
  strengthen the local dimension of education
  system.

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• Build alliance with the parents also to extend
  general public support for successful
  implementation of the education programs
  generated by the Education Fund, we propose
• spend money on various campaign for active
  parents involvement and make them responsible
  for their childrens education level, raise
  awareness about the value of normal, integrated
  schools with qualitative education.
• Fights against poverty should work on more than
  reduce the number of people live under 1-2
  dollars/days, family based in come generation
  projects should get priority in order to avoid
  the needs for following decades. The CBOs or
  Community Development Agencies need to act as
  advisors, counselling bodies, facilitators,
  resources groups, etc. for in-come generation
  initiatives
• Allocate fund for capacity building and
  development of professional skills of the CBOs in
  order to become effective, active partner in the
  development process at the grassroots level.

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Thanks for your kind attention

• Judit Bari
• Community facilitator - Pakiv European Roma Fund
• Representative of Hungarian Roma Youth Delegation
• Bari_judit_at_hotmail.com