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Mainstreaming of Equality and Non-discrimination
Hungary Transnational Meeting Athens, 25-26
September 2006
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Public awareness raising - background

• Institutions of the Roma integration policy
• 2002 Prime Ministers Office (Office for Roma
  Affairs)
• 2003-2004 Government Office for Equal
  Opportunities
• 2004-2006 Ministry of Youth,Family,Social Affairs
  and Equal Opportunities
• 2006- Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
• Regulations
• Gov.resolution on Roma integration (1021/2004
  III.18)
• (2004-2006)
• Main priorities anti-discrimination, education,
  employment, housing, health and culture
• Law on equal treatment and equal opp.(2003.)
• Legal background of fighting against
  discrimination
• Equal opp.programme (target group roma, women,
  disabled etc.)
• Minority-act (self governments etc.) 1993,
  modified 2005

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General objectives of the Roma integration
policies

• To enforce equal rights
• To improve the quality of education reduction
  and elimination of segregation in education
• To extend the educational opportunities
• To enforce the entering roma employees to
  primary labour market
• To improve of health conditions, the quality of
  life, the
• strenghtening of social security
• To promote the improvement of housing and living
  conditions
• Public awareness raising and capacity building

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The 2002 PHARE-programme against discrimination
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Awareness raising in and by the Join-in project

• Objective Overcome discrimination deconstruct
  prejudice
• Target group
• Officers, civil servants, employees who are in a
  regural interaction with Roma by their daily work
  (e.g. help desk managers, front office managers,
  recepcionist)
• Change attitudes, but how?
• individual interviews, public trainings in order
  to prepare officers for intercultural potential
  conflict situations
• Essential
• Accept each other without using stereotypes
• A congruent behaviour
• An approch by emphaty

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The training activities

• Results to be achived
• Understand leadership and service we provide and
  dont (mis)judge
• Increasing flexibility by adaption
• Manage conflicts, motivate clients
• The activities
• Group exercises for the cohesion
• Interactive presentations
• Pshycodramatic exercises
• Analizing videos about participants (media
  training)
• Controlled field activities

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The training activities II.

• Hireing participants (pshychological tests)
• Data personal and professional skills required
  by the service and its specific fields
• What are the strenghts and weaknesses?
• Which strategy should be implemented by the
  high-level officers?
• What are the specific personal/professional
  fields where intervention required/to be
  developped?
• Overall task to be (cost)effective by
  implementing the equal service providing

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Methodology in the trainings provided for the
officers of labour centers

• The programme decrease ethnic based
  frustration, objective to recognise a potential
  conflict situation and to manage it in the best
  way
• Essential interpersonal directness, increasing
  identity (authonomy), increasing
  inclusion-capacity, tolerance and in the same
  time deconstruction of stereotypes, development
  of new, advanced problem solving capacities,
  strategies, value scale evolution in a human
  oriented direction
• The groups extended cohesion among members,
  solidarity, the pshychodramatical group-games of
  Lewin closed groups (determination of roles)
• Control methods After and before the trainings
  a personal and an emphaty test was done. 3 months
  after (follow-up test/ethnic conflict measuring
  test)
• Measuring the strategies used upon conflict
  situations

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Results

• Increased chance to build consensus and result
  oriented contacts between Roma and non-Roma
• Decreasing number of etchnic based conflicts in
  the centers
• Facing non conscious feelings, stereotypes,
  actions
• Prejudice, intolerance and dicrimination towards
  Roma become a decreasing tendence
• Ensure the possibility of equal treatment, level
  of service and conflict prevention
• Increasing the quality of partnership between
  roma communities and the public administration
• Ensure an easy acces to the equal level of
  services for Roma

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Sustainability

• The evaluation seminar stated
• The achived positive behaviour strategy towards
  Roma can be transferred in the center, depending
  on how strong is the trainings programme
  efficiency
• The community based achivements can be maintained
  by chief officers (group leaders)
• The inclusion of the Roma in the public service
  is needed and one of the most relevant elements
  of sustainability (regional roma
  employment-service assistant)

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Sustainability

• The financial sources only by national funds
  (central budget etc.) are still not present
• The transnational experiences, best practices,
  know-hows (e.g. Sweden national hearings) are
  further needed to build capacity
• Awareness raising must be included in the
  national curricula of the public administration
  examination system (basic-advanced)
• Multidimensional partnerships must be
  strenghtened

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