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NEWSLETTER NO 1 October 2013 The database Projects In this issue: 2 Why have1 one? STRASBOURG – Temporary integration How to use it area (“Espace 16”), What’s in it MADRID – IRIS’s rehousing project Policies Experts’ Café 3 Javier Saez of Fundación4 Recent developments concerning Secretariado Gitano (FSG) national strategies and action plans reports on how the economic for Roma inclusion crisis is affecting Spain’s Roma communities. Focus of this issue: Portugal + An extract of the Portugal expert registry Why have one? The database How to use it What’s in it Where to find the database Why have a database?1 tices and policies that will be consid- ered good practice once validated The database on Roma-related by the webmasters. These webmas- The site operates in the two official policies and good practices came ters take into account the views of languages of the Council of Europe about as a result of the Strasbourg various Council of Europe monitoring and can be found at the following Declaration adopted at the high- bodies and sectors and other inter- addresses: level meeting on Roma on 20 Octo- national partners (European Commis- ber 2010. sion, FRA, OSCE, UNICEF, UNDP, French: Decade of Roma Inclusion, etc.) as http://goodpracticeroma.ppa.coe.int In this Declaration, Council of Europe well as national or even local studies member states urged the Council of conducted into the results of the English: Europe to further develop policy or practice in question. The http://goodpracticeroma.ppa.coe.int/en co-operation with national, regional involvement of the Roma beneficia- and local authorities and interna- ries in the project itself and the The site can also be accessed through tional organisations in collecting, evaluation process is crucial and the the Council of Europe Roma portal at: analysing, exchanging and dissemi- Council of Europe attaches great nating information on policies and importance to this. http://www.coe.int/roma good practice on Roma. They also encouraged it to provide advice Le Conseil de l’Europe a sollicité and support at the request of l’appui, entre autres, du Forum national, regional and local authori- européen des Roms et des Gens du lf it is found that a particular practice ties as well as practical assistance in voyage au travers de ses représent- has not had the anticipated short-, the implementation of new policy ants nationaux pour vérifier l medium- or long-term impact, it may initiatives be removed from the website. The Council of Europe has enlisted The database aims to meet these the help of organisations such as the needs. It contains demonstrated European Roma and Travellers practices that are transferable at Forum, through its national represen- various levels (local, regional, tatives, in order to verify the informa- national) as well as promising prac- tion. To help you find your way around the How to use the database site, an interactive CD is available on request, free of charge, from the Here you will find the latest publications listed on the site. Support Team of the SRSG for Roma You can download the full entry in Pdf format by click- Issues. ing on the icon at the bottom of the photo. This column contains a search box, a navigation menu, a map for viewing the different policies across Europe, good practices and experts, a box for subscrib- ing to the Newsletter and, at the very bottom, a tag cloud for finding informa- tion on particular topics. To find specific information use the SEARCH BOX or else enter a “keyword”. If the results do not match what you are looking for, in the middle section of the homepage there are two advanced search options, one under “good prac- tices” and the other under “policies”. Why have one? The database How to use it 1 What’s in it Thanks to an INTERACTIVE MAP and a search engine, you can find out about practices and policies already listed in just a few clicks. The map can also be used to locate experts in particular fields (education, housing, employment, etc.). Double click on the map to zoom in on a particular European country, region or city. Use the “+”button to zoom in and the “–“ button to zoom out. You can also use the “center on a country” scroll-down menu to find the country whose policies, good practices and/or experts you wish to view. SUMMARY OF DATABASE CONTENT AS AT 1 OCTOBER 2013 COUNTRY NUMBER OF TOPICS POLICIES/ COUNTRIES NUMBER OF TOPICS POLICIES/ GOOD PRACTICES STRATEGIES GOOD PRACTICES STRATEGIES ALBANIA 33 Inclusion (1), Education (1), ROMANIA 5 Education (3), Health (1), Child protection(1) Housing (1) AUSTRIA 2 Employment(1), Integration (1) 1 SERBIA 2 Education (1), Employment (1) BELGIUM 1 Education 1 SLOVAQUIA 3 Education (3) BULGARIA 6 Education (3), Employment(1), 1 SLOVENIA 2 Education (1), Employment (1) Health Mediation (2) Employment (1), Education (1), CZECH SPAIN 4 1 Integration 1 Housing (1), Mediation (1) REPUBLIC SWEDEN 1 Education FINLAND 3 Inclusion (1), Education (1), Anti- 1 discrimination (1) “FORMER YUGOSLAV 1 Education Education (4), Housing (2), REPUBLIC OF FRANCE 77 1 Employment (1) MACEDONIA” GREECE 2 Equal opportunities (1), Health (1) 1 UNITED KINGDOM 1 Education 1 Housing HUNGARY 22 Education (1), Antigypsyism (1) KOSOVO* DENMARK 1 IRELAND 1 Health (1) CYPRUS 1 ITALY 11 Housing ESTONIA 1 LATVIA 1 Education GERMANY 1 PORTUGAL 22 Equal opportunities(1), Mediation (1) TOTAL 51 11 This first issue of the Newsletter of the Good Practices Database for Roma inclusion aims at getting you familiar with this tool launched by the Council of Europe. The Newsletter of the Good Practices Database will be issued trimestrially: in october, february and may. STRASBOURG Projects Temporary integration area 2 “Espace 16” ESPACE 16, Strasbourg Establishment of a temporary integration area Country: France Region: Alsace Municipality: Strasbourg Contact Organisation: Mission Roms de la Ville de Strasbourg,1 Parc Etoile 67100 Strasbourg, France Tel: +33 3 88 60 90 90 In a decision adopted on 27 June Two social workers from a local ing for tuberculosis, raising aware- 2011, the City of Strasbourg NGO are responsible for providing ness with regard to contraception decided to set up a temporary welfare assistance. This team is in and sexually transmitted diseases, living space where some twenty charge of the day-to-day man- and also dental hygiene and Romanian Roma families can live agement of Espace 16 and helps health care. Information on the to help them to integrate main- the families with any administrative French health system was also stream society. problems they may have. distributed. This operation is being managed When they moved into the Espace NB with regard to the schooling of by the City authorities, which have 16, the families signed a contract, children, an efficient partnership set up a welfare assistance team setting out the integration objec- has been set up with the French made up of members of the tives and the rules for the function- national education authorities. All Directorate of Solidarities and ing of this communal area. There of the children now attend one or Health and representatives of are now 84 people (including 18 other of the schools in the local partner associations, all taking part children) living in Espace 16, i.e. 22 neighbourhood. A system for in a project for the general benefit families monitoring the children’s schooling, of society. involving the teachers, the parents The project takes account of and neighbourhood associations “Espace 16” is situated on munici- several aspects of the integration has been established. Work with pal land in the heart of the City of these families. Firstly, day-to-day the families mainly concerns (close to the railway station) with life is organised by a Conseil de Vie regular attendance, the separa- easy access to public transport, Social (CVS) – a ‘community life tion of mother and child, educa- services and other amenities committee’. The first task it under- tional support, school meals and necessary for integrating these took was to establish, together with children’s participation in country- families. It comprises 26 caravans the families concerned, the rules side trips and buildings, providing toilets, governing the use of the commu- showers, washing machines and a nal parts of the site and rules of As from March 2012, all those over meeting room. good conduct governing relations 16 years of age were registered for between the families. The purpose French lessons. In addition to The cost of the project was entirely of the CVS, which comprises all of learning the French language, the covered by the budget of the munici- the adults living on the site, is to lessons also included information pality of Strasbourg. The total provide information concerning all on the basic rules of life in France investment was of 400,000 euro. inhabitants, to deal with the prob- and help in preparing to integrate Running costs (water, electricity, lem of waste management, ensure French society and find long-term maintainance) and for welfare the onditions for living together work. Over 50% of the inhabitants assistance are covered in full by the and respect for the rules concern- understood the importance of municipality of Strasbourg. The cost ing the functioning of the site. The these lessons and attended class CVS is also responsible for manag- regularly. for the first year of implementation ing conflict and ensuring that was of 200,100 euro. inhabitants abide by the rules. For more information on this good practice, please visit: Information was provided on all http://goodpracticeroma.ppa.coe.int/en aspects of health including screen- MADRID Projects IRIS’s Rehousing Project 2IRIS, Madrid - Rehousing Project Region: Madrid Municipality: Madrid, Aranjuez, Torrejón, Móstoles, Leganés, Galapagar And Mejorada Del Campo Contact Organisation: Autonomous Community Of Madrid Regional Ministry of Environment, Housing and Land Use Planning.