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A combination of approaches, thematic objectives
and investment priorities to address Roma inclusion
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In the
Bulgarian
Human Resources Development OP
(ESF), actions under Priority Axis 2
(Reducing poverty and promoting social inclusion) target specific territories with
concentration of problems, including Roma neighbourhoods. Additionally, a specific action
aimed at developing local communities and tackling negative stereotypes is planned.
The
Croatian
Efficient Human Resources OP
(ESF) and
Competitiveness and Cohesion
OP
(ERDF) will act complementarily using a territorial approach to improve the socio-
economic and living conditions (including physical regeneration) in at least five pilot small
towns, selected based on a number of criteria, one of them Roma issues. In addition, these
pilots will serve to design and test a new model to regenerate concentrated deprived socio-
economic areas.
In
Czech Republic
, social inclusion of the Roma population is planned using the ‘coordinated
approach to social inclusion’, a comprehensive tool to address the specific needs of
geographical areas which concentrates support from three OPs: the
Employment OP
(ESF),
the
Integrated Regional OP
(ERDF) and the
Research, Development and Education OP
(ESF and ERDF). During the years 2015–2020, systematic support will be provided to at
least seventy of the most vulnerable municipalities, micro-regions and municipalities which
are home to socially excluded localities. The ‘Analysis of socially excluded localities in the
Czech Republic’ and the ‘Map of socially excluded localities in the Czech Republic’ are
crucial tools for the identification of the socially excluded localities to be targeted.
In
Hungary
, the territorial targeting is conceived to address, using an integrated methodology,
the specific needs of the areas most affected by poverty or the target groups at highest
risk of discrimination or social exclusion. For example, the multi-fund
Human Resources
Development OP
(ESF and ERDF) will follow a territorial approach to address the situation
of the potential 1700 Roma camps consider under the programme. In the context of the
Territorial and Settlement Development OP
(ESF and ERDF), measures targeting city areas
with Roma camps/Roma population are foreseen with the aim of eliminating segregated
Roma camps.
In the
Romanian
Human Capital OP
(ESF), a territorial approach is applied under two priority
axes. For example, under PA 4 (Social inclusion and combating poverty), the OP aims at
‘Reducing the number of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion of marginalised
communities where Roma minority population represents at least 10% of the population in
the community by implementing integrated measures’.
Under Priority Axes 8 (Health and social infrastructure development), 9 (Supporting
economic and social regeneration of deprived urban communities) and 10 (Improving
educational infrastructure), the Romanian
Regional OP
(ERDF) addresses the specific
needs of geographical areas, tackling the needs of the most vulnerable groups living In
these areas such as Roma.
The interventions of the
Slovak
Human Resources OP
(ESF and ERDF) target a number of
geographical areas selected using the existing methodology for determining the segregation
index in combination with the data from the Atlas of Roma Communities (2013), which
describes structural and social and economic situation of Roma sites in the Slovak
municipalities.