Promoting the usa of ESI Funds for Roma inclusion

dedicated actions. Some countries even opted for this IP instead of IP 9.2. to address

Roma inclusion (Austria, Poland and Portugal).

The

Austrian

Employment OP

includes a dedicated action on ‘Roma empowerment for the

labour market’ under IP 9.1. In the

Polish

Knowledge, Education, Development OP

, one

of the types of projects foreseen under Priority Axis ‘Effective public policies for the labour

market, economy and education’ are ‘Comprehensive actions to improve education and

employment of the Roma community and actions to eliminate the barriers to employment

of the Roma and their integration with the majority community’. In

Portugal

, one of the

actions to be financed within the Priority Axis ‘Promoting social inclusion and combating

poverty’ of the

Social Inclusion and Employment OP

is the ‘Socio-professional integration

of Roma communities’.

The

Hungarian

Human Resources Development OP

, in addition to the interventions under

9.2., includes under 9.1. three types of interventions targeting specifically Roma population:

‘Training in employment of the Roma (in particular Roma women)’, ‘Active citizenship of

disadvantaged people and the Roma’ and ‘Promoting the employment of Roma people in

vocations high in demand within public services is directed at a priority target group’.

In the

remaining IPs

(9.3., 9.4., 9.5. and 9.6.) it is

less common to find specific

interventions

targeting Roma/Roma communities, although there are some exceptions.

The

Romanian

Human Capital OP

includes under IP 9.6 the Specific Objective ‘Reducing

the number of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion in marginalised communities

in cities with over 20 000 inhabitants, focusing on those with population of Roma minority

by implementing measures/integrated operations in the context of CLLD mechanism’.

ESF Thematic Objectives 8 ‘Promoting employment and supporting labour

mobility’ and 10 ‘Investing in education, skills and lifelong learning’

Interventions targeting Roma/Roma communities are also considered under TO 8 and

TO 10,

mainly using ‘explicit but not exclusive’ or ‘no explicit’ mentions.

There are however some exceptions to this general trend:

The

Romanian

Human Capital OP

foresees two targeted specific objectives, including result

indicators under IP 8.1. and other two under IP 10.1.

Under IP 10.3., the

Croatian

Efficient Human Resources OP

foresees the specific action

‘Support to Roma students at the level of preschool and primary education aimed to speed

up the process of their integration into regular education system’.