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Following its High Level meeting on Roma, the Council of Europe has launched the implementation of the Strasbourg Declaration adopted on 20th October 2010 by the Governments of the member states. In the Declaration, the member states of the Council of Europe have agreed to set up an European Training Programme for Roma Mediators, with the aim to streamline, codify and consolidate the existing training programmes and about Mediators for Roma, through the most effective use of existing resources, Council of Europe, standards, methodology, networks and infrastructure, in close...

  Since January 2010 Center Amalipe has been implementing the program "Reducing the drop-out rate of Roma children", supported by America for Bulgaria Foundation. The focus of the initiative is the Student: our goal is to make school a place for every child, to lead the battle for any student in danger of dropping out and to help for better realization of each child in school. Furthermore, capacitating the schools to achieve it is a key approach: in different ways we strengthen the capacity of the schools and their teams to work successfully with children, parents...

  Center Amalipe hosted a meeting with Dominique Be, Deputy Head of Unit at DG Employment of the European Commission, Bistra Valchanova and Raimonda Vysniauskiene from DG Employment to discuss the forthcoming high-level event "The Contribution of EU Funds for Roma integration" in Veliko Turnovo on June 23rd. The series of events will start on June 21st and 22nd in Sofia and will be followed by regional events in Veliko Turnovo on June 23rd and Burgas on June 24th. The EU and the Member States declare a special responsibility to improve the situation of Roma in Europe and...

Interdepartmental expert’s group determinative for an operation targeting the improvement of housing conditions of vulnerable groups with focus on Roma community was established by the Prime Minister Borisov. The group is conducted by the Minister of the EU funds Tomislav Donchev and includes representatives of Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, National Council for Cooperation on Ethnic and Demographic Issues, the National Association of the Municipalities in the Republic of Bulgaria, experts from the civil sector...

AMALIPE congratulates the growing engagement of the European Commission with the challenge of Roma integration and particularly the anticipated EU Framework for National Roma Strategies. Having in mind the importance of the future National Roma Strategies for the effective and efficient Roma inclusion process as well as the importance of the expected in April Commission’s Communication for the quality of the National Roma Strategies AMALIPE proposes the following elements to the EU Framework for National Roma Strategies 1. The status of Roma inclusion policy: Roma inclusion...