EUROPEAID/136-304/DD/ACT/BA AND EC/BIH/CFP/14/001/ IMPROVED SOCIAL INCLUSION OF THE MOST VULNERABLE ROMA FAMILIES
Deadline: 05-11-2014
Location: Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Background
The BiH Strategy for Addressing Roma Issues (2005) envisages the actions that support improvement of social status of Roma minority in BiH and identifies several areas such as employment, education, housing, health and social protection, among others where the measures should be implemented. The Roma Board was established (2005) within the BiH Council of Ministers (CoM) as an advisory body to the Council with 22 members, representatives from the relevant government institutions and Roma associations. The main tasks of the Board are to discuss all issues related to Strategy, suggest the measures for improvement of the social inclusion of Roma and monitor the implementation of the Action plans. In 2008 Bosnia and Herzegovina joined to Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015 and recently CoM adopted the Revised Action plans on Roma issues in the fields of Roma employment, housing and health care (December 2013). The revised Action plan on education has been adopted earlier, in 2010. 2009 was the first year of implementation of the Action plans and, based on evaluation of the Decade Watch Team, Bosnia and Herzegovina was on the first place for Roma housing (among 12 Decade countries), on the third place for Roma education, and on the fourth place for Roma employment and health care. At the same time, the independent evolution report was done specifically for BiH by the BiH NGO representatives, identifying shortcomings in the implementation of the Action plans in housing, health and employment for the period 2009-2011 providing also the recommendation for the future activities that would improve the implementation.
Budget
The overall indicative amount made available under this Call for Proposals is EUR 2.500.000. The Contracting Authority reserves the right not to award all available funds. The Contracting Authority will award one grant only.
Eligibility
In order to be eligible for a grant, the applicant must:
- be a legal person
- be non-profit-making
- be non-governmental organisation or international (inter-governmental) organisation as defined by Article 43 of the Rules of application of
the EU Financial Regulation
- be established in a Member State of the European Union or a country that is a beneficiary of the Council Regulation (EC) N° 1085/2006, of
17 July 2006, establishing an Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) (Croatia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey,
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo under UNSCR 1244), a country that is a beneficiary of the European
Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya,
Moldova, Morocco, Palestinian Authority of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Russian Federation, Syria, Tunisia and Ukraine), or a Member
State of the European Economic Area (Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway).
Deadline: 05 November 2014
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