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On November 8, 2011 at 18.00 o’clock  was held the concert of the popular American country music group “Mountain Quickstep” (USA) in the building of the  “Razvitie” Cultural House in the town of Peshtera (Southern Bulgaria). The concert was initiated by the US Embassy in Bulgaria in cooperation with the Center for community development – Peshtera, created by Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance Amalipe.  Partners of this initiative were Municipality of Peshtera and the local Roma NGO “Sun for everyone”....

On November 4, 2011 was held the second meeting of the Inter-ministerial Group preparing the Bulgarian National Roma Strategy.  On this meeting was discussed a draft of the strategic part of the document and the submitted proposals – result of the forums of Roma NGO’s held in Sliven, Stara Zagora, Vratsa and Lom and also the upcoming National debate on the Strategy on November 14, 2011 – Sofia. After a lot of discussions the following decisions were adopted: 1. The name of the strategy to be “National Strategy for Roma Integration” and also...

During four consecutive days (November 1-4), community moderators from three Balkan countries – Bulgaria, Romania and Greece - shared their so far work-experiences and exchanged ideas seeking cooperative solutions for various cases to deal with the specific problems of Roma children, women and families. The training was held in Complex “Bryasta” – only seven km far from the old capital of Bulgaria – Veliko Tarnovo. The participants in the meeting were representatives of eight Centers for community development – six of them situated in Bulgaria,...

Working Group will be established to build a strategy on the inclusion of the Roma integration issue into the National Development Program  ‘Bulgaria 2020’, as well as in the Operational Programs and the Rural Development Program for the next programming period and to carry  out a strategic overview and monitoring of the implementation of integrated actions/measures  in support of Roma integration. The Group will be led by Tomislav Donchev, Minister for Management of EU Funds. Deputy-Ministers in charge of the Management of OP ‘Human Resource...

Representatives of Roma non-governmental organizations, working in the field of housing conditions, the Secretariat of the National Council for Cooperation on Ethnic and integration issues, national, regional and local institutions, "America for Bulgaria" Foundation, "Open Society Institute" and others participated in conference on "Best practices and basic approaches in improving the housing conditions of Roma." It was held on 28 October (Friday) in the town of Lom and was organized by Foundation "Roma - Lom", Center for Interethnic Dialogue and Tolerance "Amalipe" - Veliko...