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Lessons learnt, the future ahead
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EQUAL

• The aim of the EQUAL Community initiative is to
  promote new ways of combating all forms of
  discrimination and inequalities in the labour
  market.

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Tha target group of EQUAL

• The Hungarian EQUAL programme has been
  supporting innovations which foster employment of
  disadvantaged people - those who are excluded
  from the labour market or experience difficulties
  in accessing employment due to discrimination
  related to gender, ethnic origin, disability,
  age, lack of qualifications or lack of work
  experience.

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Themes

• Facilitating access or return to the labour
  market for those who have disadvantages in terms
  of the labour market (Theme A)
• Promoting lifelong learning and "inclusive" work
  practices which encourage the recruitment and
  retention of those suffering discrimination and
  inequality in connection with the labour market
  (Theme E)
• Reducing gender gaps and supporting job
  desegregation (Theme H)
• Supporting the social and vocational integration
  of asylum seekers (Theme I)

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The BRIDGE projectInnovative Employment Program
of the Borsod County Roma

• The aim of project to promote Roma
  re/integration into the labour market (theme A)

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The base of the project

• Fifteen years of experience with local roma
  economic projects
• Success in labour market development program
  including employment of labour market mediators

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BRIDGE Development Partnership

• Autonómia Foundation
• Lungo Drom Roma organization of Méra
• Lungo Drom Roma organization of Szalaszend
• Advocacy Organization of the Roma and
  Disadvantaged People of Bodva Valley, Perkupa
• Andrássy Gyula vocational school, Miskolc

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BRIDGE project

• The aim of the project
• The unemployed local Roma should have an access
  to skills, jobs and income so that their
  families living conditions should improve.
• The broken down houses of the families with no
  work income will be renovated and modernized the
  energy efficiency of the heating systems will
  grow and the insulation will be improved so that
  the heating costs of the families will be
  significantly lower.

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Preparatory phase - research

• Dimensions measured in the survey
• education
• household income
• employment status
• skills and ablities
• social network
• motivation and solidarity

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Breakdown of the 250 households along the groups
constructed

• socially disintegrated, segregated
• not educated, inactive, not motivated
• not educated, motivated, more or less active
• educated (but the not marketable), motivated,
  more or less active
• educated (more skills), motivated, active

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Provision for the selected participants

• Vocational training, salary during the training
  (minimum wage)
• After the training employment (provided by the
  program)
• After the training employment (provided by local
  enterprises)
• House renovation energetical improvement

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The project -1

• I. Training
• 50 unskilled unemployed (or without marketable
  skilles) get registered, marketable skills.
• maisons
• construction carpenters
• stovemakers
• smiths
• woodwork machine operators

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Screening the participants (50 out of the 145
applicants)

• Work experience
• Work skills
• Reading, writing, arithmetic skills
• Motivation

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The project - 2

• II. Employment
• During the training 50 trainees were employed,
  out of them 38 were employed by the DP after the
  training for 7 - 11 months.
• masons 6 (8)
• carpenters 9 (8)
• stovemakers 9 (8)
• smiths 6
• woodwork machine operators 8 (9)

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The project - 3

• III. Housing renovation and energy efficiency
• The housekeeping costs of the families living in
  the renovated houses will decrease, and they are
  expected to become motivated to participate in
  similar programs.
• Establishment of a small workshop to renovate
  doors and windows the houses with bad quality
  insulation, without windows and proper doors will
  be liveable and closeable.
• Organisation of stovemaker brigade(s) the
  outdated heating equipment will be replaced by
  energy efficient stoves so that the winter fire
  wood demand of the families will decrease

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The near future
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The project - 4

• IV. Organisation development
• The formation of the social economy in the
  region will start. The supporting institutional
  system will be developed and the regions labour
  market development will be supported.

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Cooperation possibilities with the local
authorities

• Housing renovation and energy efficiency
• Renovation of the buildings of the local
  authorities
• Renovation of the broken down buildings in the
  settlement
• Joint tender possibilities

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Results as of today
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Personal level

• Increased skills
• More experience outside the village, even abroad
• Growing competences
• Increasing self-confidence, pride
• Growing trust in personal future

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Household level

• Social security
• Increased economic stability
• Short and long term investments (incl. credit)
• The role of the father is regained
• Better planning potential
• Increased social networking capacities

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Community level

• More capable people in the community
• Investment, workplaces in the community
• Increasing income from the formal economy
• Increasing tax income for the local community
• Outsiders, media appear in the village,
  contribute to the local self esteem and spend
  money

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Policy level implications
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Basic points

• The project must start where the target group is
  on the very local level
• Investment into the community must not start
  without thorough exploration of the local
  situation involving the local partners
• Empowerment of the participants is the key
  factor.

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The future

• The capacity of the local organizations has
  grown they are capable to apply for funds on
  their own
• The workshops produce marketable products
  market sustainability is expected
• The local key actors of the labour market may
  unite their efforts in order to set up a
  supported social economy