INNOVATIVE LOCAL INITIATIVES FOR INCLUSION
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Katalin Csonkáné Utasi, Anita Romsits and Marta Marczis
"Community coaching cannot function on its own. We as coaches need to have access to expert and professional groups with whom we can bring together members of our target communities..."
Figure depicting the three phases of the innovative process of community empowerment. The document we share mostly focuses on the Mobilization and Participatory Planning phases.
Cristina Rat
The area-based social survey in Pata-Rât, a segregated and deeply impoverished settlement near the landfill of Cluj-Napoca, tried to explore a different methodological path than regular poverty-mapping inquiries.
The project was instigated by the desperate living conditions of disadvantaged and segregated communities (majority of them are Roma) in Cluj Metropolitan Area.
Tonk Gabriella, Julia Adorjani, Olimpiu Bela Lacatus
Coordinated interventions for combating marginalization and for inclusive development targeting inclusively but not exclusively the vulnerable Roma through de-segregation and resettlement of the Pata Rat Area using the leverage of EStF
This research was carried out in October 2012 by the United Nations Development Programme in partnership with the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca within the project Preparatory Phase for Model Project: Making the Most of EU Funds for Sustainable Housing and Inclusion of Disadvantaged Roma.
Enikő Vincze
The process of ethno-social ghettoization is a manifestation of social injustice and institutional racism, or of advanced marginality. In nowadays Romania it is generated and maintained by the neoliberal societal order that privileges the winners of the privatization and marketization of public goods.
In Istanbul, there are close to 30 neighborhoods, or mahalle, with high concentrations of Roma communities. Some mahalle are more homogeneous and compact than others where other minority groups, incomers from the provinces and, more recently, refugees, have settled.
Hacer Foggo
The last few years in Turkey have seen an increasing openness by the government to addressing the Roma issue. This openness has been paralleled by a process of grass-roots mobilization to give voice to the local Roma and other disadvantaged communities.
Balázs Simon
Pigs in Space is a title from the 70s – a popular recurring sketch from the Muppet Show television series. Whenever I find myself in chaotic circumstances, I think of this beautiful image: pigs inside a space shuttle, lost, with little hope for returning to Earth.
Balázs Simon
In the project Theatre for Everyone, our keyword is participation. By taking part in the performance, the spectator is inspired to act in his or her life and is likely to continue taking part in theatre activities, transforming the impressions of art into a personal experience.
This project provided valuable inputs to the sustainable rural development in the Kosice region as a ‘twin-project’ of the UNDP ‘Cserehat Programme’ across the border in Eastern Slovakia for implementing the same approach and multiplication of its results.
The year is 2004. In Hungary, 1 million people – 10% of the population - live in poor areas. The country’s newly acquired EU status and substantial inputs of funds into development did not impede the widening territorial inequalities.
In Hungary, territorial inequalities have been continuously increasing over the last two decades. The life of individuals and communities living in poverty, including disadvantaged Roma, is turning ever more difficult, with social distances also widening. These parallel processes represent one of the main challenges for Hungary today.
This project mainly builds upon UNDP’s facilitation and involvement in local development processes in Cluj through the Model Project for Integrated Sustainable Housing and Inclusion programme in the Cluj Metropolotan Area (CMA) implemented in 2012.
WORKSHOP FOR ROMA EMPLOYMENT COACHES AND MENTORS , 17-18 December 2013
Since 2007 the Government is supporting the employment processes in the country with variety of Active Labour Market Measures-ALMMs that are targeting among other, the most vulnerable groups including Roma.
Evaluation of the Student Designs Competition. June 6, 2013, Pécs, Hungary
The dilemma of the development of the György settlement is not only a moral duty for the city of Pécs, but is also the most complex and difficult of professional challenges; one which could meet with success only supported by a long-term systematic learning process.
December 5, 2013, Bucharest
The increasing social and territorial exclusion of poor and vulnerable populations across the continent are among the key issues facing European government and societies today. It is estimated that 20 million people (or 4% of the total European population) are living in poverty and exclusion today
December 9-11, 2013
Over the last years, the issue of Roma inclusion has increasingly come to the fore with the marked opening towards the complex nature of socio-cultural issues in Turkey in the past decade.
Marta Marczis
The aim of this document is to provide a set of tools designed and tested in UNDP models on Area-based Development (ABD) for Social Inclusion to be used to the EU 2020 programming processes at the national and local level in Roma- populated countries in the CEE region.
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