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Hungary, Structural Funds and Roma

1. Tasks in the field of education:

Ensuring access to an equal level of education for Roma children in public education. Elimination, prevention of segregation, as well as the termination of social, institutional mechanisms that strengthen negative selection.

Kindergarten services to disadvantaged children in their own villages

Towards the reduction of the number of children false-diagnosed as being disabled, the identification and relocation of these children to classes with general curriculum,, especially among disadvantaged children living in state foster care.

The acceptance of any application by parents for home schooling (students does not attending regularly school classes) should not become a way of segregation.

Developing and structuring anti-discrimination elements in public education

Dissemination of alternative methods of informal education for the promotion of success in schools in case of disadvantaged children, as well as the encouragement of the inclusion of disadvantaged young adults into public education and alternative education.

Ensuring the highest possible rate of admission to secondary schools offering general certificates of secondary education following the completion of vocational schools not granting GSCE sor directly after primary-school studies.

Introduction and improvement of balancing programmes for the compensation of disadvantages in higher education towards ensuring the admission of and the completion of studies by students with multiple disadvantages.

Implementing horizontally the issues of equal opportunities, fundamental human rights, the culture and folk studies of Roma in the general course of education.

Extension of the scope of the European Council’s European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages to involve Roma (Romani and Beas) languages.

Promotion of the training and employment of the largest possible number of Roma teachers, assistants and kindergarten teachers.

2. Tasks in the field of employment

2.1 With the operation of active labour market measures (wage supports, take-over of the payment of the related contributions, trainings, public employment, etc.), primarily the improvement of the employment opportunities of the long term unemployed persons living in the most disadvantaged regions, as well as the promotion of access of Roma job-seekers to such labour market tools.

2.2 Promoting the proper access to the human resources services of the Public Employment Service (PES), strengthening and expanding the Roma employment organization management network.

2.3 Increase of the number of Roma people employed in public administration, public services.

2.4 Mainstream and disseminate the documented best practices of trainings combined with employment in order to improve the chances of those young people with disadvantages, including a large number Roma people, who have dropped out of formal education.

2.5 During the planning and implementation of public work programmes, improvement of the labour-market positions of the participants with specific trainings tuned for the programme, as well as the facilitation of their employment in the primary labour market. Moreover, the encouragement of the commencement of public-benefit and public-purpose work programmes that improve the chances of the participants to enter the primary labour market.

2.6 Increase the efforts to inform disadvantaged employees and their employers during labour office inspections in popular industries to promote legally accepted employment practices.

2.7 Promotion of the development of small and medium-sized enterprises operating in the most disadvantaged regions, as well as the efforts of long-term unemployed persons living in these regions (including a significant proportion of Roma people) to become self-employed.

2.8 Implementation of central and decentralized complex programmes promoting employment primarily towards the improvement of the employment situation of long-term unemployed persons living in disadvantaged micro regions.

2.9 Promoting the fight against the discrimination of Roma people in the labour market, strengthening of the cooperation among governmental bodies and non-governmental organizations acting for the protection of rights and governmental labour organizations, supporting the creation of an anti-discriminatory ’warning system’ consisting NGOs working with Roma issues and governmental institutions.

3. Tasks in the field of housing

Implementation of complex programmes for the promotion of the social integration of people living in ethnic ghettos or in ghetto-like environment.

Complex development of the most disadvantaged regions densely populated with Roma people (where the ethnic ghettos or ghetto-like environments are frequent).

Creation of a properly differentiated financial system for the public services and utilities in the above mentioned disadvantaged regions.

Involvement of people having low incomes (or no incomes) into the rental housing and social housing programme. Improvement of access to benefits in cash and benefits in kind aimed to sustain the housing infrastructure.

Flexible transformation of the system of social subsidy for home building of residential purposes primarily for the creation of mobility relating to employment opportunities.