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July, 2011 | Open Society Foundations and the Metropolitan Research Institute (Budapest)
OSI and Metropolitan Research Institute (Budapest) released: "Vademecum - Improving housing conditions for marginalized communities, including Roma in five countries through the absorption of ERDF".Multiple challenges faced by Roma living in marginalized communities: lack of access to labour, low or unfinished education, bad health conditions and severe living conditions reinforce each other and, as already identified by institutions at European level- these areas have to be tackled altogether from an integral approach and are equally essential for the improvement of the living conditions and the inclusion of the Roma minority.
Within the programme Making the Most of EU Funds for Roma (Open Society Foundation) the Metropolitan Research Institute of Budapest engendered the “Vademecum: Improving housing conditions for marginalized communities, including Roma in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia through the absorption of ERDF”. This publication highlights why segregation and spatial concentration of poverty speeds up the downward spiral
Acknowledging that a number of successful projects usually run by NGOs have confirmed that improvement of housing conditions can be sustainable and can effectively contribute to the integration of Roma; and taking into consideration that we are reaching the end of the current programming period of Structural Funds (2014), this publication identifies how the ERDF can be better used for the scaling up of such pilot projects.
In that sense, the Vademecum encourages comprehensive interventions as well as concrete actions in order to achieve the desegregation and integration of marginalized groups, among them Roma communities in the five countries included. Recommendations based on evidence in the field are listed for relevant stakeholders at local, national and EU level.
