Key findings

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Key findings

• Roma participation in development,
  implementation, monitoring and evaluation is
  still insufficient.
• We recognize the significant progress made in
  developing Roma policies, but underline the need
  for further development.
• Roma issues are not adequately incorporated
  within national strategies for majority
  population
• Roma policies are not yet widely accepted or seen
  as necessary by majority populations, by
  government officials or by professional groups.
• Roma policies should be based on wide political
  consensus.

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Key policy recommendations

• Participation
• core funding to enable quality participation in
  each Roma project
• genuine Roma participation should be imposed by
  donors as eligibility requirement
• community empowerment chapters should be added to
  all Roma strategies
• Policy development further develop sectoral,
  regional and municipal policies, and elaborate
  concrete action plans. Address politically
  sensitive issues such as IDPs, returnees and
  refugees.

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Mainstreaming Roma policies
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Key policy recommendations

• Communication strategies should be incorporated
  within national Roma programmes in order to
  persuade the majority population and the
  government officials of the usefulness of
  implementing Roma policies
• Political consensus Roma policies should be
  based on law and not on governmental decrees in
  order to secure stability and continuity

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Questions for the Future

• Participation how can we all, IGOs, governments
  and civil society ensure in practice quality
  participation of Roma in each stage of policy
  development and implementation?
• Are governments in the region committed to
  develop sectoral and local strategies with clear
  target objectives?
• Are governments committed to ensure collection
  of disaggregated data (with full respect for
  privacy) in order to ensure systematic monitoring
  and impact evaluation of Roma projects?