Roma Policy Lab

Social inclusion, employment, innovation

Project: “Social Inclusion Hub Stamboliyski”

The main objective is to create opportunities for everyone to live healthily, responsibly and independently by building a hub for functionally related social and educational services in support of children and youth from vulnerable groups, as well as their families in the municipality of Stamboliyski.

Project: “Integrated measures for Roma inclusion and empowerment in municipality of Blagoevgrad”

The overall goal of the project is to create sustainable mechanisms to improve the condition and opportunities of people living in Roma communities in the municipality of Blagoevgrad by implementing integrated measures, including improving access to social services, education, employment, health and non-discrimination, as well as empowering the Roma.

We play, we learn and we grow together

„We play, we learn and we grow together“ is the slogan of one of the three projects that received consulting support under the Project Generation Facility of the Open Society Institute – Sofia and have been approved for funding under the procedure BGLD-2.003 – “Education and care in early childhood” funded by the Local Development, Poverty Reduction and Enhanced Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups Programme.

Project: “Project Generation Facility”

The Project Generation Facility (PGF) is a special facility of the Open Society Institute – Sofia for supporting CSOs which work on equal Roma inclusion to develop integration projects, access financing and effectively implement them with resources provided by available financing programmes.

Project: “Innovative Community Care Models in Favour of People with Chronic Diseases and Permanent Disabilities”

Implemented in: 7 municipalities in the districts of Vratsa, Vidin and Montana Program: “Local development, poverty reduction and enhanced inclusion of vulnerable groups” Implementation period: 17.05.2019 – 17.05.2023 Lead organisation: Bulgarian Red Cross Partners: Ministry of Health (Bulgaria);...

Project „Build bridges for а change”

Civic engagement of Roma and young people aged below 29 has been extremely low in Bulgaria over the last years. Low education level, lack of initiative, unemployment, result in apathy and looking for opportunities for migration. That is why persistent and targeted effort should be made to train representatives of vulnerable groups who can influence their community.