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Roma Forum Romania

Roma Forum Romania

The Second National Meeting of Roma Forum in Romania took place on 18 November 2016 at the InfoEurope Center in Bucharest, organized by Nevo Parudimos, as member of ERGO Network, in partnership with Romani Criss.

The meeting focused on issues of Roma communities in order to increase the capacity-building of Roma grassroots organizations who are members in the Roma Forum, especially in the area of monitoring and advocacy work, together with experienced NGOs such as RomaniCriss and Sastipen;

The discussions focused on the list of proposals for the Romanian Presidency of the European Union in 2019 in order to be formalized in the public agenda during the Romanian presidency. These proposals refer to the following areas: school segregation, the mediation process for health and education and the forced eviction of the Roma.

Marian Mandache (Romani Criss), as an invited speaker of the 1^st session, proposed ways of addressing the Roma issues to the future Romanian Government from 2017: bilateral meetings on the main social and economic fields that address Roma, such as sectorial meetings with public ministry representatives to include in their public agenda the Roma issues.

The Roma Forum had about 20 participants of Roma organizations from Romania and some new ones expressed their willingness to join.

As an ERGO member, Nevo Parudimos expresses its commitment to sustain the Roma Forum activities and to develop the capacity of Roma NGOs by exchanging information, solutions and models in order to overcome certain issues.

Also representatives of public authorities, namely the National Roma Agency and Mr. Alexandru Potor from the National Federation of LAGs, participated in the meeting.

A new united Europe for people

A new united Europe for people

ERGO Network is one of 177 European and national civil society organizations and trade unions to sign a common statement calling for a new direction for the European Union.

The statement is directed to the 27 EU leaders who are going to meet for an informal Summit in Bratislava on the 16^th of September, where the leaders are supposed to address the growing gap between the citizens and the EU in the wake of the UK referendum.

The common statement has been adopted to show a common position demanding leaders to fight back against populism, social inequalities, climate changes etc.

For more information read the full statement and see a full list of signatories.

Equal Citizenship and Policy Results The EU Roma inclusion agenda 2015 – 2020

Equal Citizenship and Policy Results
The EU Roma inclusion agenda 2015 – 2020

As an organization that connects organizations from the ground – where positive changes should become visible – ERGO Network suggests the EU agenda for Roma inclusion should reflect and tackle three main issues:

the vulnerable position of Roma civil society;
weak policy delivery;
the pervasive and entrenched impact of anti-Gypsyism.

This note presents these in turn, along with a limited number of concrete proposals. Many other recommendations – in particular with regard to policy delivery – have been shared with the European Commission over the past years. Most recently, ERGO Network presented a set of recommendations related to integrated approaches, based on original research, which is annexed to this note.

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