Rationale

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The aim of Partnership for Roma success on the labor market is to cooperate in order to find solutions for multi-dimensional problem of Roma unemployment in Czech Republic. Partnership will develop and test out a complex system (set of interactive practices) for their more effective occupational fulfillment.
Partnership for Roma success on the labor market aims to develop comprehensive network of educational, qualificational, occupational, antidiscriminatory and activating community and individual services which will cause better employability and higher level of employment of both young and adult members of Roma community.

Objective

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- support of motivation of young and adult Roma and their families towards education and employment, enhancement of education and proficiency within Roma communities
- improvement of employability, escalation of competencies, qualification, personal proficiency and experiences of Roma (on the labor market)
- increase of Roma awareness, knowledgeability in the filed of education and occupational possibilities
- actual increase of employed Roma
- decrease of Roma indebtedness (risk of indebtedness)
- reduction of Roma workers within the black economy (gray market)
- reduction of stereotype perception of Roma (within the city, within the school, occupational environment)
- establishment of effective antidiscrimination practice towards employers (real right of recovery)
- enhancement of capacity of public sector in cooperation with NGO sector towards offering and implementation of effective support programs and services in this field

Innovation

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Comprehensivness and inner interaction of program feed backs (first system approach)
Project brings along complex system of interactively joined modules of community stimulation, activation, education, qualification, counseling, occupational and job services (monitored and assisted offer and intermediation) supported by social filed work: Model strategy for success in studies and further professional preparation, Model strategy for replenishment of qualification and competencies, Employee and occupational strategy, Field social work program, Active antidiscrimination system etc.)

Whole family approach
The methodology runs through the whole Roma family: target groups are children as well as youngsters and their parents. Parents provide an important motivation and role model factor.

Effective combination of bottom up and top down models and actors
Comprehensivness and systemic interaction of complementary partners

Project combines bottom up and top down experts as well as practitioners and methodologists, various NGOs and public sector actors (new prevention possibilities, increase of effective addressed services etc.). It effectively increases capacity and know-how of all partners towards building a functional educational and work career strategy for Romas.

Specific target group – clear outcomes
Project focuses on specific target group and allows aimed and concentrated care and therefore specific and clear outcomes, answers.
Effective models of e.g.: assisted and supervised employment, public employment, qualification programs are adjusted and tested out on this specific group in order to find precise possibilities and answers.

Active anti-discriminatory system – effective prevention methods
Project will cause emergence of formal precedents (on an informal ground – causes appeared in practice) and set up effective prevention methods.

Budget Action 2

500 000 – 1 000 000 €

Beneficiaries

Empowerment

 With beneficiaries

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The applicant, NGO IQ Roma service is a professional NGO which operates within the Brno city region from 1997 and has a thorough knowledge of Roma community needs as well as active links within the community itself. IQ Roma service is a civic association whose members are up to 70% Brno Roma citizens. Its professional team partly consists of social filed workers who are of Roma origin as well. Members of target groups will operate in a role of experts within various working groups (hired by IQ Roma service) – they will be active in both planning and developing.

NGO IQ Roma service and its Centre of community and social field work ensure:
a) full and interactive connection of project program with the target groups and local Roma communities
b) participation of members of unemployed Roma target group within the project programs
c) acquirement of references, feedback from members of target groups – unemployed Romas: families, individuals

Development partnership under supervision of IQ Roma service will construct a Consultation group (approx. 15 members) that will consist of members of target group (Roma, unemployed Roma) – this group will give recommendations, feedback, opinions, insights etc. on project strategies.

Members of target group will be also members of Central managing committee in a role of experts (invited and hired through IQ Roma service). Their position will be equal with other members (delegates of partners organizations).

Members of target groups will obtain trainings to be able to multiply achieved project know-how within their communities, community centers etc.

 Between national partners

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Partnership of Roma success on the labor market integrates 3 dimensions: NGO civic sector – public sector – private sector. It also engages members of target group within the team.
The applicant NGO IQ Roma service manages and coordinates the partner team (provides a roof for the team), connects partners into a purposive, operating project unit. IQ Roma service also mediates the participation and feedback of target group (Roma community). Constituent national partners take part in planning and development of project strategies within various sections (which provides one unified system) according to their departmental competence. Overall evaluation is supervised by Research institute of labor and social affairs.

Project strategy is designed within. 5 joined sections:
1. Stimulation, motivation, specialist and professional preparation, education of students
(NGO IQ Roma service, Primary school Merhautova, Primary school Křenová, Centre of leisure time Lužánky, Pedagogical Faculty MU Brno, Secondary trade school Cejl, Practical secondary training school Lomená, Informational and advisory centre of Employment office, Psychological advisor, consultants of the target group)
2. Life-long education, community and adult learning, training and qualification programs
(NGO IQ Roma service, Centre of leisure time Lužánky, Pedagogical Faculty MU Brno, Practical secondary training school Lomená, Brno city Employment office, NGO AISIS, Psychological advisor, employers offering know-how, training and practice - D TRI Ltd. company, training and educational institutions: Partners Czech, IT school, consultants of the target group)
3. Prevention of social destabilization (procedures combating social exclusion)
(NGO IQ Roma service, The Brno city (e.g. social, housing, educational departments), Southmoravian region (social, housing, educational departments of regional government), Faculty of social studies MU Brno, Research institute of labor and social affairs)
4. Employment and occupational strategies
(NGO IQ Roma service, The Brno city, Southmoravian region, employers: D TRI and others, Brno city, Employment office)
5. Support activities (including specific antidiscrimination subgroup)
Lobbying, public PR , development of effective antidiscrimination system
(IQ Roma service, Gender centre FSS MU, Brno city Employment office, The Brno city, Southmoravian region, Research institute of labor and social affairs, NGO Partners Czech)

About all key and important decisions always determines the Central managing committee which consists of members of all partner organization and delegates of target groups.

Transnationality

 Linguistic skills

• English
• Deutsch
• français
• polski

 Percentage of the budget for transnational activities

• 5.0%

 Transnational Co-operation Partnerships

Background

 Involvment in previous EU programmes

• One partner involved in A&E

National Partners

Agreement Summary

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DPA 0077

IQ Roma servis

Contact person(s)

Aisis, o.s.

Fakulta sociálních studií MU v Brně

Jihomoravský kraj

LUŽÁNKY - Centrum volného času Brno, Lidická 50

Odborné učiliště a Praktická škola, Lomená 44, 617 00, Brno

Partners Czech, o.p.s.

Pedagogická fakulta MU

Satutární město Brno

Výzkumný ústav práce a sociálních věcí, Brno

Základní škola Brno, Merhautova 37

ZŠ a MŠ BRNO, Křenová 21

Úřad práce Brno-město

Partnership for Romany success on the labour market