Project Events & News

Roma Civil Monitor’s third cycle: NGOs focus on blind spots in Roma inclusion policies in 27 EU countries

January 14, 2020

Issues that hinder Roma inclusion and have not been effectively considered or addressed by national Roma inclusion strategies so far are in the focus of the Roma Civil Monitor’s third reporting cycle. More than 90 civil society organisations and experts from 27 EU Member States are analysing public policies or their absence and will report on the “blind spots”; the reports will be available by mid-2020.

Roma civil society: Poland needs to improve its Roma integration outcomes

January 9, 2020

The second Roma Civil Monitor (RCM) report for Poland has found that while the Roma Programme 2014-2020 is a functioning mechanism that supports the areas of education, employment, health care and housing, the mostly well-financed policies still yield insufficient outcomes and even some outcomes contradictory to integration.

Civil Society’s assessment becomes part of European Commission’s reporting on Member States’ progress in Roma inclusion

December 30, 2019

Civil society’s assessment of Roma inclusion policies in the EU member States is part of the European Commission’s recent 2019 Report on the implementation of national Roma integration strategies. Country-specific and thematic summaries of the civil society reports are now available at the Roma Civil Monitor webpage. 

The fuzzy concept of collaborative governance: A systematic review of the state of the art

A new open access article has been published in the framework of the TROPICO project (Transforming into Open, Innovative and Collaborative Governments), authors are CEU CPS researchers Agnes Batory and Sara Svensson.

Roma civil society: Croatia can promote integration strategy through capacity-building

December 9, 2019

The first Roma Civil Monitor (RCM) report for Croatia has found that while political representation for Roma at local and regional level is part of the National Minority Rights Act, this opportunity for political influence is not being made use of as much as it could and capacity-building is needed in the Roma community to empower them to represent their own interests.