Duration: 01.09.2013/01.03.2014

Financial support: Roma Education Fund – Budapest

Budget: 13.495 EUR

Goals of the project: Providing implementation of a Strategic Framework for inclusion of Roma educational mediators in primary education.

Description of the project: This project represents the next phase in the program for support of the education of the Roma as a continuation of the project cycles: “Campaign for Roma education”, the project “Inclusion and continuation of the educational process”.

The project “Institutionalization of Roma educational mediators” plans a preparation of financial implications for inclusion of the Roma educational mediators in the system, acceptation of this strategic framework by the Macedonian government and inclusion of the Roma educational mediators in the system (phase 1).

Activities:

  • Meetings with local authorities for advocating and lobbying in order to provide implementation of the strategic framework for institutionalization of the Roma educational mediators in the primary schools in Macedonia;
  • Meetings with national authorities for advocating and lobbying in order to provide implementation of the strategic framework for institutionalization of the Roma educational mediators in the primary schools in Macedonia;
  • Creating a strategy for media and public relations in order to achieve a visibility of the project, with a special emphasis on the lobbying activities;
  • Creating financial implications for implementation of the program by the state.

Results:

  • Financial analysis;
  • Strategy for public relations;
  • Focus on the social media for promotion of the project;
  • Adopted strategic framework for inclusion of Roma educational mediators;
    • Included minimum 4 and maximum 11 Roma educational mediators in primary schools in Macedonia.