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The FSG publishes its 2011 Annual Report in printed and electronic version [editar]

• Communication
• International

In our 2011 Annual Report, we analyse on the one hand the situation of the Spanish as well as the European Roma community and, on the other, give an account of the work developed by the FSG in 2011, reflecting the most relevant actions and the results achieved during the year thanks to our efforts and to the continued support of the organisations and persons collaborating with us.

In 2011, 112,881 persons benefitted from our 531 programmes, 12% more than in the previous year. In addition, 4,042 job contracts were achieved through the Acceder programme and 710 pupils benefitted from our Promociona programme (from 317 in 2010), proving that if we invest the necessary means and resources, results can be achieved even in times of crisis.

The Report provides the following figures:

• 22.24 million EUR of total income

• 112,881 direct beneficiaries

• 531 programmes performed in 90 municipalities of 14 regions of Spain

• 4,042 employment contracts achieved by the Acceder programme

• 19,574 persons received assistance from our employment services

• 15,547 beneficiaries of our educational programmes

• 710 students received support through our Promociona programme

• 300 bursaries for secondary and higher studies administered by the FSG

• 19,622 beneficiaries of our social inclusion programmes

• 2,000 children and their families participated at the awareness campaign “When I grow up, I want to be…”

• 207 families were relocated from slums to adequate housing

• 2,824 Roma from Eastern Europe countries benefitted from our specific programmes

The edition of this report, which the FSG has been publishing since 1999, is also an exercise in transparency with which the FSG wants to present how the economic resources that we have been entrusted with have been invested and to return to society the results obtained in 2011, a year in which the economic crisis has continued to hit the most disadvantaged and excluded groups hard, including Roma persons, and is threatening to put an end to 30 years of progress. While the unemployment rate of Spaniards as a whole has tripled since 2007 (to more than 25% in late 2012), it has tripled in the case of the Roma population, amounting to 36.4% according to the data of our recently published study on employment and the Roma community (2011).

However, the year 2011 also offered some encouraging news for the Roma population: for instance, the adoption of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies establishes for the first time a common framework for the implementation of measures and policies by Member  States based on shared approaches, objectives and fields of intervention.

What does the 2011 Annual Report contain?

Among other issues, the Report includes a summary of the institutional activity of the FSG, an assessment of the situation of the Roma community (the main events that took place in Spain as well as in Europe in that year), and the activity report providing information on our different fields of work: Employment, Education, Housing, Social Inclusion (which gathers Health, Youth, Roma from Eastern European countries and Community-level Social Action), Equal Treatment and Gender Equality, International activity, Communication, Documentation and Culture. In addition, the Report provides specific information on the activity of the FSG in each of the 14 regions of Spain where it works as well as in Romania.

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