Tim za socijalno uključivanje i smanjenje siromaštva

The conference “Towards a New Strategy for Improving the Status of Roma” was held on 9 February at the Klub Poslanika in Belgrade, aiming to present the guidelines for providing relevant bases for drafting a new Strategy for Improving the Status of Roma.

The conference presented the Initial Bases for Drafting the Strategy for Roma Inclusion in Serbia, harmonized with the Europe 2020 Strategy, the Report on the Implementation of the Operational Conclusions of the Seminar on the Social inclusion of Roma in RS, arguments for the second Roma Decade, regional cooperation and coordination of Roma Strategies in South-Eastern Europe, as well as problems of poverty from the perspective of human development, the social and cultural potential of Roma and cultural policy as an instrument for the social inclusion of Roma, and the participants provided their comments during discussions.

The Office for Human and Minority Rights of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, in partnership with the Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Unit, and supported by “Making the Most of EU Funds for Roma” Open Society Foundations from Budapest and the Open Society Foundation from Belgrade, prepared the “Initial Study for Drafting the New Roma Inclusion Strategy Harmonized with the Europe 2020 Strategy”, presenting the reasons and bases for drafting the new strategic document.

Source: www.ljudskaprava.gov.rs