Fundación Secretariado Gitano

The pilot project for the transfer of the Acceder Programme to North Macedonia comes to an end [editar]

• International
• Employment

The Programme was implemented jointly with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and in partnership with the Macedonian Ministry of Labour and Social Policies (MLSP) as part of the four-year project Creating Job Opportunities for All funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

The project strongly focused on enhancing the employability and facilitating employment of the most vulnerable persons, and particularly Roma, persons with disabilities and youth, as population segments exposed to multiple barriers in accessing the labour market in North Macedonia. The project also works on designing innovative policy and programming solutions to activate Roma and other vulnerable persons in the open labour market while promoting services for broader social inclusion.

Within the project, the Fundación Secretariado Gitano will mainly focus on the provision of technical assistance in the process of transferring the Acceder programme methodology to North Macedonia and in the elaboration of proposals for policy change. In these two years of intense collaboration, we have worked with the Macedonian teams implementing the Programme in the field to ensure the correct transfer of Acceder:

• Adjusting the phases, activities and instruments that characterise our model to the Macedonian context,
• Training the teams in Macedonia so that they can successfully implement Acceder, and
• Following their progress on the ground, monitoring their performance in order to ensure the highest quality in the implementation of Acceder.

This project has been possible thanks to the collaboration and involvement of the FSG's best professionals, coordinated by the International Department, including responsible for the departments of employment, equality, social impact, social inclusion and the participation unit. The initial training of the teams was carried out by experts from the Spanish Acceder teams in Valladolid, Malaga, Alicante and Madrid.

The intense work during these two years has made it possible to improve the lives of Roma people, especially in the city of Prilep (North Macedonia) and through salaried employment, achieving excellent results, taking into account the difficulty of implementation due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2022, almost 200 people participated in the Programme and more than 50 got a job.

The next steps to complete a transfer of the Acceder to the country would involve scaling up the pilot experience to the whole territory and establishing a national coordination structure, which could provide the project with long-term sustainability and continuity.

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