Roma Policy Lab

Veliko Tarnovo district

Project: „Strengthening the role of institutions at the local level in the field of justice for children – Municipality of Gorna Oryahovitsa“

The project will contribute to increasing access and quality of specialized services, with a specific focus on children from the Roma community. The implementation of the activities encourages active participation and cooperation with local institutions and stakeholders – Children’s Pedagogical Room, Child Protection Department, pedagogical advisors in schools, representatives of Roma informal organizations, etc.

Project: “Toler@nce platform 2.0”

A 2018 survey of public attitudes towards hate speech by the Open Society Institute – Sofia identified a problem: the group of teachers is among the two communities that find it most difficult to...

Project: “Establishment of a Community complex (hub) for early child development and parental support “Peony” in the town of Gorna Oryahovitsa, the village of Varbitsa and the village of Draganovo”

The overall objective of the project is to contribute to improving the quality of life, social inclusion and early childhood development by supporting the creation and implementation of a community complex (hub) of functional services for children from vulnerable groups, including Roma communities.

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: “Improving the access to justice for people living under the poverty line with a special emphasis on women, children and Roma”

The main aim of the project is to further expand the system for legal aid provision to encompass more citizens with vulnerable background as well as to strengthen the state’s role in reaction to domestic and gender-based violence while exercising its duties to ensure equal and fair access to justice and legal aid to people whose fundamental human rights have been violated.