Building blocks to address the challenges ahead. ROMACT in Maglizh. Insight from Liliya Makaveeva*

Community Action Group training on advocacy, August 2016

At the close of the ROMACT programme for Maglizh, are the challenges facing the Roma community in the area solved?  No, sadly, they are not. There is still much to do. However, one must not lose sight of what a positive experience ROMACT has been for Maglizh.

Call for tenders for ROMACT National Facilitators' Coordinators in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Romania- Deadline- 15 January 2017

The National Facilitators’ Coordinator will undertake an organizational and coordination function, will act as a conduit between facilitators and ensure effective implementation of activities by facilitators.

Call for tenders for ROMACT National Project Officers in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Romania and the Slovak Republic- Deadline- 08 January 2017

The National Project Officer will undertake a coordination function , act as a conduit between national, regional and local authorities, National Facilitators’ Coordinator, Facilitators and Roma communities and will work to ensure effective cooperation between these different stakeholders.

First Intercultural Trainings of ROMACT T. C.C took place in Ireland and Belgium

Copyright: Leish Dolan

ROMACT Intercultural Trainings are one of the three modules of the ROMACT T.C.C.  Over the past weeks, ROMACT experts  delivered training to over 90 people working in healthcare, law enforcement, social work, housing, community outreach workers, diversity officers and community NGOs in the municipalities of South Tipperary, Carlow, Waterford in Ireland and Ghent in Belgium.
 

ROMACT T.C.C working visits have started in Maramures County, Romania.

A team of representatives of  Métropole européenne de Lille, France, and mandated partners such as AFEJI et l’Aréas is visiting Ponorata and Coroieni municipalities to initiate a transnational collaboration with the local authorities and local nongovernmental organization ASSOC - Baia Mare

First lessons and pathways to the future: the first ROMACT TCC networking meeting in Munich

Launched in 2016, ROMACT T.C.C. (ROMACT Transnational Cooperation Component) is a new component of the ROMACT Programme that focuses on the cooperation between municipalities from or to which movements of marginalised populations occur, with a focus on Roma.

A home for Simona (Alesd, Romania): latest developments

 The foundation of the house is now complete, and a local priest will provide all the bricks needed for the construction.

ROMACT Italy Team members physically attacked for their work, President of Puglia Region shows support

"I condemn firmly the violence suffered by the president of "Upre Roma", said the President of the Puglia Region, Michele Emiliano. 

Simona’s house in Alesd, Romania under construction

Simona and her children couldn’t have gone through another winter in the cottage they called home.

Local Action Plan in Bari ready for adoption

On 25 October 2016, during a public session in the Urban Center of the city,  the Head of the Welfare Department  presented the main measures included in the Local Action Plan for Roma Integration which will be forwarded to the local council for adoption in the coming days.

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