Conference
From Pilots to Outcomes: Evidence-Based Lessons on the Socio-Economic Inclusion of Roma Communities
15 March 2013, Brussels (Belgium) and Moldava nad Bodvou (Slovakia)
Agenda 
Photo gallery of the event on Flickr
European Commission Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme BRC and the World Bank are organising the conference "From pilots to outcomes", which will focus on evidence-based lessons on the socio-economic inclusion for Roma communities.
The conference will take place on 15 March 2013 simultaneously in Brussels (Belgium) and Moldava nad Bodvou (Slovakia). Both sites will be linked by a video bridge – but what really unites them is the topic, Roma inclusion.
The Brussels event will take place at the Renaissance Brussels Hotel (Rue du Parnasse 19, 1050 Brussels, Belgium). Please click HERE to access the draft programme of the conference.
The conference will present the results of the three-year pilot project decided by the European Parliament targeting Roma socio-economic inclusion and implemented in the fields of early-childhood education and care, self-employment through microcredits, information and awareness raising, data collection and monitoring and evaluation tools in five European Union Member States and Macedonia. Recommendations in the fields of education, employment, housing, health, civil society, migration and gender equality will be debated with representatives of the European Union main institutions, international organisations, researchers and experts, Roma representatives and the inhabitants of a Roma settlement at Moldava nad Bodvou. A final session will be dedicated to the role of the structural funds in the implementation of the national Roma integration strategies, based on the experience derived from the structural funds programming period 2007-2013.
For more details on the project please visit EC-UNDP Roma Pilot: Tools and methods for monitoring and data collection website and EC Roma Inclusion Pilot Project website
Presentations
- Roma pilots: Tools and methods for evaluation and data collection - Main policy recommendations, by Ben Slay - UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre
- Tackling the ECD Gap: Romani Children and A Good Start - Policy Recommendations, Roma Education Fund
- Tackling the ECD Gap: Romani Children and A Good Start - Policy Recommendations, Roma Education Fund
- Early Childhood Development As Smart Economics: the Case of Roma Inclusion in Europe, World Bank
- Reducing vulnerability and promoting self-employment of Roma in Eastern Europe through financial inclusion, World Bank
- Lessons learnt and policy recommendations from the self-employment and microcredit programme, by György Molnár - Kiútprogram