Presentation of the Decade Intelligence Report

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Thursday, 27 November 2014 10:24

Decade Secretariat Foundation and the NGO Young Roma from Herceg Novi organised meeting today at the Hotel Ramada in Podgorica on the occasion of the presentation of the Decade Intelligence Report.

The report was presented by Aleksandra Bojadzieva, projects manager at the Decade Secretariat Foundation. The presentation was attended by representatives of the EU Delegation to Montenegro, UNICEF, UNDP, HELP, ministries, municipalities, and representatives of non-governmental organizations dealing with the inclusion of Roma.

Decade Intelligence is a project of the Decade of Roma Inclusion Secretariat Foundation through which projects implemented in the Decade of Roma Inclusion 2015-2015 from the 12 participating countries have been mapped, assessed and evaluated. Total of 314 projects were mapped, while 42 were chosen for in-debt analysis. The Decade Intelligence resulted in a report elaborating the factors for success and failure of the decade of Roma inclusion projects. 

The projects collected within the Decade Intelligence have an average assessment of 16 points (from a maximum of 30). This indicates that the projects within the Decade were good enough to make some progress towards the objectives, but not sufficient to produce the real change to which the Decade participants committed themselves within this initiative. 

Comparing the different indicators, Roma participation has the highest average, which means that the projects for inclusion of Roma in this survey have involved Roma in the project cycle significantly. It also shows that the principle “Nothing for Roma without the Roma” has been the value of the Decade that was most successfully promoted. The next highest averages for the indicators are: geographic coverage (2.9 points), the demonstrated reduction of the gap between Roma and non-Roma (2.6 points) and the Decade priority and cross-cutting areas (2.4 points). 

The worst assessed indicators are the level of involvement of the government and the level of institutional incorporation of project practices (2.1 and 2.3 points on average respectively). These indicators suggest that governments are making insufficient efforts at inclusion of Roma and that the high level political commitment represented by the Decade Declaration has not been translated into law or practice. In order to achieve real inclusion, greater government engagement, scaling up and institutional incorporation of good practices are a must. Inclusion can not be achieved by leaving the main role to civil society or international organizations, with their limited resources and reach.

Decade Intelligence Report is available in Montenegrin, English and Romanes.