SARR
BiH Project aims
The
action aims to contribute to the overall objective,
under Campaign 4 Advancing equality, tolerance and
peace, “secure equal rights and treatment of persons
and people belonging to minorities irrespective of
racial, ethnic or caste origin, or of language and
religion”.
The
specific objective that the action aims to achieve
is to assist in the development, participation by
Roma communities, communication to the local level
and monitoring of the National Strategy for Roma and
National Action Plans, and to achieve rights of Roma
at the local level, aided by bringing relevant experience
from other countries.
This
higher level objective is supplemented by two further
objectives:
• To contribute towards central government development
of National Action Plans based on the Roma Strategy,
with the help of the Roma Council, civil society and
a team of experts, ensuring that these Action Plans
have clear responsibilities, timeframes and resources
allocated, and that they have been drafted in a participatory
process with Roma and communicated to the local level.
• To help Roma civil society and community leaders
in the three pilot areas (Sarajevo, Tuzla and Banja
Luka) to access and promote human rights by bringing
groups together to resolve problems through local
level round table advocacy meetings with decision-makers
at the municipality level and through developing Local
Action Plans.
•
To
support local level initiatives through skills training
and offering micro-grants to raise awareness of rights
and to organise effective advocacy action.