Roma Policy Lab

Smolyan district

Project: „Capacity building and awareness on domestic and gender-based violence in the South Central Region“

The goal of the project is to increase the capacity of Bulgarian local authorities in the field of domestic violence and gender-based violence. The project supports the development and introduction of an effective integrated approach aimed at improving the status and opportunities of victims of domestic and gender-based violence.

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: “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 “Social and legal action to combat honor related abuse”

The Bulgarian legislation does not have a definition of honour abuse or violence and a data collection system which leads to impunity for offenders and inadequate protection for victims. The project sets out to carry out a national representative study of the issue among the various ethnic groups of Roma, Jews, Turks and Bulgarian as well as among asylum seekers who have been granted international protection, drawing comparison with the situation and good practices from Norway, analyse Bulgarians’ awareness and attitude to the issue, develop and submit to the public institutions recommendations for changes to the policies and legislation to prevent and solve such cases effectively.