Transcript Workstream 3

Roma MATRIX
All Workstream Meeting - Athens, Greece
28th November 2013
Cath Peart - Roma Matrix Partnership Manager
Workstream 0
Management & Coordination
Activity 0
So Far …
Kick off meeting in Leeds – April 2013
Workstream 2 meeting in Valencia,
Spain – June
Workstream 3 meeting in Tiszodob,
Hungary July
Workstream 4 meeting in Varna,
Bulgaria September 2013
Logo/Templates
Leaflets
Newsletter
Press Releases
TV,Tabloids
Brochures
Partner extranet coming soon!
Website company appointed
Workstream 1
Research & Understanding
Activity 13 - Research
Workstream 2
Redress, Reporting and Support
The first partner meeting held in
Valencia in June 2013.
Share experiences of the reality of
anti-Roma racism in their countries
as well as their plans to improve
practice through the Roma
MATRIX project.
Discussions regarding the ways
racism manifests in different
member states
Partners shared and discussed
how best to work with Roma
Highlighted the importance of
engagement and collaboration at a
political level and networking that
enables joint work with different
organisations.
Workstream 2
Activity 1 – Reporting and Care Centres
Meetings to promote Roma Matrix project
Counselling and employment drop-in:
counselling services and support for Roma
clients in the area of discrimination and
redress for racial oppression
Individual counselling for people who
have/are suffering discrimination
Training
questionnaire circulated to find out what
training our networks want: education, equal
treatment, antidiscrimination, civil activity,
elections, public administration,
communication
training sessions and meetings held for
people who will work with Roma who are
suffering discrimination
Leaflets created for Reporting and Care
Centres
Visits to inform Roma people about services
on offer
Report to local stakeholders about racism
against Roma and experience of the
reporting centre
Discussions with workers from the Office of
Public Defender of Rights: discrimination
case, possibilities and limits of the testing,
agreement on the next steps
Identification of discrimination issues and
potential key-witnesses and community
leaders in communities
Writing up reporting cases related to
discrimination – serious work is going to
take place with lawyers and project
managers as decisions need to be made as
to how to proceed with each of the cases
25 health mediators in various areas
instructed how to collect cases related to
discrimination based on ethnic background
Templates: to record cases of discrimination
and register individual psychologists
Activity 2 – Providing information to Roma
about reporting, redress and rights
Sent information about the project to all local
administration with a remit on Roma,
including social workers operating in camps
etc
Talks with Governments and
municipalities
Identified Stop Hate UK as contractor to run
hate crime workshops across Yorkshire
Activity 3 – Improving Redress
Mechanisms with Law Enforcement,
Judicial Authorities and other Public
Authorities
Working with Police Scotland to improve bi-lateral
relations between them and local Roma community
Roma Matrix have been asked to be a member of
the working group devising an Enforcement,
Policing, Information and Communication Plan
Helping the police manage redress mechanisms
with the Roma community
Helping local and national media to develop a
positive flow of information and positive news stories
involving the police and Roma
Established contacts with law environment & leaders
of Roma. Make direct contact with Roma to break
down barriers and prejudices
Training with law enforcement/ judicial authorities/
public authorities to improve redress mechanisms
Consultation meetings with law environment, Roma
leaders, elderly and Roma community
Activity 4 – Policy, practice and
dissemination Networks
Local, Regional & National Networks created
to address issues such as Education, Health
Employment, Public Policy for Roma
Media professionals, creative people,
sociologists, psychologists and Roma people
have come together to think about effective
campaigns for antidiscrimination &
antiracism
Seminars held for policy-makers, local and
regional authorities, NGOs, Roma where
decisions can be made
Survey carried out on Roma employment
Conference planned for November, over 250
invited
Meetings carried out with experts to
agree and coordinate activities.
Preparation of training materials ready
to deliver ‘Working with Roma family’,
Children´s home, History of Roma
Workstream 3
Combating racism through inclusion
A meeting of all the partners
involved in this workstream was
held in Tiszadob, Hungary in July.
It gave partners working on the
same issues an opportunity to plan
future activities together, to discuss
workplans, and how to achieve
common goals in each country.
Partners recognised the similarity
of the issues facing Roma people
and Roma children in child care
across member states
The meeting provided a valuable
opportunity to share experience of
what does and doesn’t work
Workstream 3
Activity 5 – Preparation for Roma children
leaving care
• Preliminary research to identify the needs of
children & ways to approach issues. Aim to
support children to obtain life skills (survive
independently)
• Visits Roma neighbourhoods to discuss with
parents and children about the difficulties ,
needs and life conditions.
Workstream 3
Awareness raising groups held for Roma on
the dangers of human trafficking & neglect in
caring for children.
Partnership agreement between RWAR and
City District 5 - General Directorate of Social
Assistance and Child Protection
“Jump into Life” training delivered
educational programmes for young adults
before their departure from children´s homes
Workstream 3
In depth communication with heads of
children´s homes and children (choosing
children for training)
Questionnaires given to children to adapt
programmes to audience. (Topics for
training).
Workshops
Workstream 3
Communication
- Teamwork
- Self-knowledge
- As a leader
- Confidence
- Social skills
- Gender identity
- Discrimination
- Confidence and self-esteem
- Personal Development
Workstream 3
Activity 6 – Integration of Roma children,
young people and parents
Meeting held with local authoritiess to discuss
potential project work
Workshops organised with Roma parents, children
and teachers. The aim is to highlight the importance
of diversity, acceptance & team work through drama
pedagogy, role play, dances, common activities
Many workshops with Roma children who do not
attend school organised together with Roma
organisation and communities
Workstream 3
Schools & Participants identified
7 Workshop for Roma and non-Roma
children held on Differences, Exclusion,
Prejudices. Children learned about the topics
in a non formal way with the methods of
drama-pedagogy
Integration day organised where all the
inhabitants of the village attended, children
performed
Workstream 3
Group/individual work taken place with kids,
youth and parents.
Prevention activities (workshop with local
police) and personal skills development and
the groups
Social workers for families worked with 12
adult clients focusing on education and the
stabilization of family; finding new housing,
keeping current housing,children returning
back to parents’ care and finding a job
Workstream 3
Activity 7 – Employment programmes
Career Guidance seminars held with Roma
people. Objectives to inform Roma people of
career counselling and career consultation.
Practical Guide for employers on
employment of representatives of the Roma
minority - published
Mentoring scheme launched, contact made
with employers, attend regular job fairs and
exhibitions
Workstream 3
Planning meeting held with young people’s
“Pathway to Employment” project coordinators
to discuss what to deliver
Educational programme organised for young
adults following departure from children´s
homes. Focusing on development of skills,
Topics were: introductory meeting, current
situation, theory of change, differences between
rich & poor, their principles and rules of social
classes
Workstream 3
Activity 8 – Cross-community mediators
Mediation in neighborhood has taken place due
to police ordering Roma families to leave their
homes. This caused huge problems, many
families have now gone but there are others
who do not want to leave.
Cross-community mediation activity planning
meeting held with project coordinators and key
partners. Included representatives from
Neighbourhoods services, Ward Councillor,
Police and Voluntary and Community Sector
Workstream 3
Activity 9 – Roma women community
health mediators
Workshop on Roma MATRIX funding
opportunities, contracts now given in 4 areas in
region, working with new organisations
Roma women to be selected and trained in
order to become health mediators for Roma
women
A Health guide is to be produced about hygiene,
first aid, what to do in case of an emergency
Workstream 3
First training organised for Health and
Vaccination specific to the health of Roma
women – challenges, problems, practices,
perspectives
Mother and child healthcare
Discriminative practices and their visible and
invisible manifestations
Sexual and reproductive health
Workstream 3
Participants who attended training gave
feedback, main recommendations were:
• More time and additional information on
prophylactic women’s health programs
and diseases
• More time for discussion as there were
many questions related to women’s health
Workstream 3
Activity 10 – Roma mentoring in Public
Authorities
Secured involvement in mentoring scheme,
identified Roma issues for positive news story
Meetings with public authorities to organize
internships in pubic educational sector such as
schools or municipalities where Roma people could
work as intercultural mediators
Workshops with public authorities & Roma
association held to discuss how Roma people could
benefit for national initiatives targeted at Roma
people in the field of education, health and
employment
Workstream 3
Building of mutual trust between local
municipality and clients continues, worker
supporting client in resolving cases directly
with municipality representatives, which has
proved very successful
Housing Department worker negotiated the
possibility of establishing a janitor in one of
the 'excluded' houses. The debate was
initiated directly by the Roma client, who
expressed her interest to be involved in the
mentoring scheme in the future
Workstream 3
A member of Roma community expressed
his interest in the mentoring scheme in order
to be efficiently involved in decision-making
processes in the town
Prepared an internal Working Paper with
suggestions for content, case studies and
readership of the GPG
Workstream 3
Discussion with Local Authority regarding
plans for recruiting and mentoring Roma
Programme to consist helping train Roma to
become Community Researchers who will
be supported to design and develop their
own research projects of interest to
themselves and the wider community
Workstream 4
Promoting positive images of Roma
Meeting held in Varna in
September 2013
Partners involved in the public
media campaign began to develop
key messages and campaign
plans.
Extensive discussion on negative
and positive images of Roma
Agreed to avoid images of squalor
and social exclusion
Also agreed to avoid over-use of
positive but clichéd images of
traditional Roma culture.
Agreed to make more use of
‘positively surprising’ images of
successful, integrated Roma.
Workstream 3
Activity 11 – Public Media Campaign
• Campaign preparation – striving for the best
campaign setting
• Focus on: target audiences, objectives, key
messages and tactics. This allowed the partners to
start to set out their campaign plans within a proper
planning framework
• Looking for more efficient and effective campaigns
• Publishing materials concerning the project;
websites created, materials uploaded
Workstream 4
Roma moderators have continued in their
training for radio shows: reportage, public
inquiries, rhetorical skills
Graphic design for creating posters and
billboards; developed numerous slogans that
offer a strong impact on society
Increasing marketing & advertising
experience, communicating with media &
journalists
Activity 12 – Promoting positive
images of Roma
Questions